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經文:馬可福音十章
鑰節:「我實在告訴你們,凡要承受上帝國的,若不像小孩子,斷不能進去。」(10:15)
提要

        我們都聽過人形容一些快樂的老人是在享受他們的「第二個童年」。成年及中年期時,他們可能很謹慎,思慮也很周密,但現在他們變得不顧一切,也沒什麼責任感。多年來他們認真的投身於工作,現在卻只想尋歡作樂。突然間,他們的情感很容易激動,錢也似乎花得過份大方。這些已夠讓他們那些小心、認真、努力工作的中年子女發瘋了。畢竟,你要怎麼叫一個七十歲的老人「長大!」呢?

        更有甚者,他們還需要他們成年子女的照顧和智慧。健忘成了家常便飯──忘了眼鏡放在哪裡、忘了吃藥,冬天出門時,他們總是忘記戴帽子和手套。從某方面來說,他們變得愈來愈倚賴他們的孩子,就像他們的孩子曾經倚賴他們一樣。

        但,那正是小孩子好的一面,他們或許沒什麼責任感、思想不夠周延、玩心又重,但不加思索、毫不猶豫、也不知臉紅的倚賴別人正是他們的特點。他們不只知道如何被人照顧,也期待被照顧。這對小孩子而言是很自然的事。

        大人的問題就像本章那位有錢的少年官:他很獨立。他不需要倚賴任何人。我們都有這種獨立的傾向。我們要當自己的老闆、自己的大法官,可以決定我們自己的疆界、追求我們自己的夢想,不受限制、不對任何人負責、也不倚靠任何人。依賴令我們害怕。

        所以我們努力賺錢、爭取權力、地位,不計代價的爭取第一。小孩子是在樓梯最矮的一級,而我們想要攀上巔峰。

        但耶穌以祂慣常的作風扭轉了我們的觀念。只有像小孩子那樣需要倚靠的人才能進天國。當我們進入天國,那些在「最高級」的人會發現,他們被「最低級」的人超越了。

        我想耶穌在說明了進天國的資格後,回過頭來稱呼祂那些驚奇的門徒為「小子」(24節)是蠻特別的。耶穌當然對門徒有更高的評價(雖然我預料門徒不太可能會用「小子」來描寫他們成熟的自我)。不過,重點很清楚。上帝呼召那些自己謙卑,像小孩子一樣單純倚賴祂的人。天國是為小孩子預備的:就算已經七老八十了,仍可保有赤子之心,做主的孩子。

禱告

        親愛的主,請幫助我憑著赤子之心,接受您的天國,並請幫助我除去幼稚的行為,使我的生命能長大成熟,實現您在我生命中的計畫。奉主耶穌基督聖名,阿們!

English

Scriptures:Read Mark 10
Key Verse:“…Whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will by no means enter it.”(Mark 10:15 )
Overview

        I think we’ve all heard it said of some happy senior citizen that he or she is having a “second childhood”. Whereas in their early adulthood and middle age they may have been cautious and thoughtful, now they’re reckless and irresponsible. For years they were serious and committed to their work; now, all they wasn’t to do is have fun. Suddenly they’re easily moved emotionally and seemingly over-generous with their money. It’s enough to drive their cautious, serious, work ethic, middle-aged children mad. After all, how do you tell as seventy-five year old to “grow up!”?

        What’s more, they need their “adult” children’s care and wisdom. They’re constantly forgetting things – like where their glasses are, or to take their medicine, and they’re always going out in the wintertime without their hat and gloves. In a way they’ve become as dependent on their kids as their kids were once dependent on them.

        But that’s the wonderful thing about kids. Irresponsible they may be, thoughtless, and playful too – but in all this they are uncritically, unabashedly, thoughtlessly dependent. They not only know how to be cared for, they expect it. It’s a natural condition.

        The problem with adults is like that of the rich young ruler in this chapter: he was independent. He didn’t need anybody. All of us have this dependent streak. We want to be our own boss, our own final court of appeal, determining our own boundaries, pursuing our own horizons, unchecked, accountable to, and dependent on, no one. Dependence scares us.

        So we strive for money, status, power, whatever it takes to be first. The child is on the bottom rung pf the ladder. We want to be on the top rung.

        But Jesus, in typical fashion, turns it all around on us. Only the childlike, dependent ones will enter the kingdom of God. And when we do, those who were ‘top rung’ may find themselves surpassed by the ‘bottom-rangers’.

        I think it’s special that Jesus, in this context, turns to His amazed disciples, and calls them (v.24), “children”. He obviously had a higher view of them than they had of themselves (although I expect they hardly would have chosen the word “children” to describe their grown-up, mature selves). Nevertheless, the point is clear. God calls those who will humble themselves and accept their dependence in a childlike way. Heaven is for children: even the seventy-five year old variety.

Prayer

        Dear Lord, please help me to receive your Kingdom in childlike way and please deliver me from any childishness, that I may grow up into the fullness of Your purpose for my life.


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