08/11/2020
11:18 “And you shall put these, my words, on your heart and on your inner self, and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand and let them be as an emblem between your eyes. 11:18 你们要将我这话存在心内，留在意中，系在手上为记号，戴在额上为经文； 11:19 And you shall teach them to your children by talking about them when you sit in your house and when you travel on the road and when you lie down and when you get up. 11:19 也要教训你们的儿女，无论坐在家里，行在路上，躺下，起来，都要谈论； 11:20 And you shall write them on the doorframes of your house and on your gates, 11:20 又要写在房屋的门框上，并城门上，
“这段话并非简单地重复六6-9，而是神在这里特别指明人长久活在应许之中、并且活得更丰盛的秘诀。因为祂愿意看见人长久地享用祂的恩典，「如天覆地的日子那样多」”
08/12/2020
14:2 For you are a people holy to Yahweh your God, and you Yahweh has chosen to be a treasured possession from among all of the peoples that are on the surface of the earth. 14:2 因为你归耶和华你神为圣洁的民，耶和华从地上的万民中，拣选你特作自己的子民
这些限制是神要叫他们不断牢记，他们与万民有别，是被分别出来专门归与神，以色列人作为一个民族必须是圣洁的。作为现代的基督徒，我们虽然毋须谨守这些饮食的条例（徒十9～16），却能从中学到功课，使我们全面追求圣洁。圣洁不仅局限在灵性方面，也须融入生活，使我们活出圣洁的人生。
08/16/2020
19:21 You must show no pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.” 19:21 你眼不可顾惜，要以命偿命，以眼还眼，以牙还牙，以手还手，以脚还脚。
This ordinance is the basis for the judge’s sentence, showing that all are equal before the law, that the punishment for sin is equal, and that the sentence must not be too severe or too light. An “eye for an eye” is not an indulgence in personal revenge, nor is it an encouragement to take revenge on one another when we deal with personal grudges (Mt. 5:38-39). The principle of human relations among God’s people is: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you” (Lk. 6:31), “Judge not, and ye shall not be judged; condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned; forgive, and ye shall be forgiven” (Lk. 6:37).
20:19 “If you besiege a town for many days to make war against it in order to seize it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an ax against them, for you may eat from them, and so you must not cut them down. Are the trees of the field humans that they should come in siege against you? 20:19 你若许久围困攻打所要取的一座城，就不可举斧子砍坏树木，因为你可以吃那树上的果子，不可砍伐，田间的树木岂是人，叫你糟蹋吗？ 20:20 Only the trees that you know are not fruit trees you may destroy and you may cut down, and you may build siege works against that city that is making war with you until it falls.” 20:20 惟独你所知道不是结果子的树木可以毁坏、砍伐，用以修筑营垒，攻击那与你打仗的城，直到攻塌了。
- Even if the siege is long overdue, the people should trust God not to cut down fruit trees for the siege by any means necessary. For the purpose of God’s warfare is to deal with Satan and “Satan’s servants,” not to destroy the ecosystem He created. God gave the fruit trees as a gift of grace at creation (Gen. 1:29), so the people were not to “spoil” (v. 19) what God had given them.
- Spiritual warfare is God’s warfare on our behalf; therefore, not only should the motive be of God, the time should wait on God, and the method should be according to God. Today, as we “fight the good fight for the truth” (1Ti 6:12), let us remind ourselves that we are not to fight with human flesh and blood, “for the battle is won or lost by the Lord” (1Sa 17:47).
08/18/2020
28:12 Yahweh shall open for you his rich storehouse, even the heavens, to give the rain for your land in its time and to bless all of the work of your hand, and you will lend to many nations; you will not borrow from them. 28:12 耶和华必为你开天上的府库，按时降雨在你的地上。在你手里所办的一切事上赐福与你。你必借给许多国民，却不至向他们借贷。 28:13 And Yahweh shall make you as head and not the tail, and you shall be only at the top of the nations, and you shall not be at the bottom, if you listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God that I am commanding you today and diligently observe them. 28:13你若听从耶和华你神的诫命，就是我今日所吩咐你的，谨守遵行，不偏左右，也不随从事奉别神，耶和华就必使你作首不作尾，但居上不居下。
Many believers love the promise of “being the head and not the tail, but the top and not the bottom” (v.13), but often neglect the blessed way of “keeping the path of obedience, and not following the ways of other gods” (v.14). The promise to “be the first and not the last, but to be the first and not the last” is not only physical, but also spiritual. If we do not do what we are told, we will end up following the tide of the world, and we can only passively resist and “lie under the hand of the evil one” (John 15:19).
08/20/2020
29:29 “The hidden things belong to Yahweh our God, but the revealed things belong to us to know and to our children forever, in order to do all the words of this law.” 29:29 隐秘的事是属耶和华我们神的；惟有明显的事是永远属我们和我们子孙的，好叫我们遵行这律法上的一切话。”
今天，神已经通过圣经给了我们足够的启示，作为我们行事为人的依据，神要求我们所做的，是「到了什么地步，就当照着什么地步行」（腓三16）。而那些「隐祕的事」，比如难解的经文、末日的时间、个人的前途等等，我们应当谦卑承认自己的有限，凭着信心确信这些都掌握在慈爱的天父手中。神没有让我们明白的「隐祕的事」，我们不需要知道，因为在神的眼里，切实遵行「明显的事」，比搞清楚那些「隐祕的事」更有属天的价值。