幾盡
在馬槽中、在十架上,我們看到神愛我們到底可以去到幾盡。
One of my favorite Christmas hymns — In the bleak midwinter:
Yes, just what are you going to give to this new born King?
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In the bleak midwinter, frost wind made moan,
earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone;
snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow,
in the bleak midwinter, long ago.
Our God, heaven cannot hold him, nor earth sustain;
heaven and earth shall flee away when he comes to reign.
In the bleak midwinter a stable place sufficed
the Lord God Almighty, Jesus Christ.
Angels and archangels may have gathered there,
cherubim and seraphim thronged the air;
but his mother only, in her maiden bliss,
worshiped the beloved with a kiss.
What can I give him, poor as I am?
If I were a shepherd, I would bring a lamb;
if I were a Wise Man, I would do my part;
yet what I can I give him: give my heart.
在寒冷嚴冬裏,凜風如怨訴,
大地堅如鐵鑄,凝冰像石鋪;
雪花紛紜雪上雪,蓋地又蔽天,
在寒冷嚴冬裏,遠遠在當年。
蒼天何能容祂,大地更卑微,
當祂降世統治,天地都迴避;
在寒冷的嚴冬裏,馬槽棲身地,
反容道成肉身,基督主上帝。
天使與眾天軍,排列在上方,
基路伯撒拉弗,環立在身旁;
惟有主貞潔母親,喜樂滿胸襟,
她用慈祥輕吻,來崇拜聖嬰。
像我如此貧乏,無物可獻上,
我若是個牧人,我願獻小羊;
我若是東方博士,本分我當盡,
但我所能獻呈,祇有我的心。
有多少人明白聖誕對我們真正的顛覆與震撼?
「有幾個博士從東方來到耶路撒冷、說、那生下來作猶太人之王的在那裡。我們在東方看見他的星、特來拜他。希律王聽見了、就心裡不安.耶路撒冷合城的人、也都不安。」
馬太福音 2:1下-2
「有主的使者站在他們旁邊、主的榮光四面照著他們.牧羊的人就甚懼怕。那天使對他們說、 不要懼怕、我報給你們大喜的信息、是關乎萬民的.因今天在大衛的城裡、為你們生了救主、就是主基督。」
路加福音 2:9-11
2003年的平安夜,我是如此說的:
[audio:sermons/12242003.mp3]今天Tyler@Codex的說法和我正相互呼應。
拜託不要糊亂再說聖誕是關於「家庭」、「分享」、「施予」…
You become like what you worship. You reflect the one you worship.
Those who keep on blogging
Those who help me understand what He said
What we think He is saying
What the world is saying
What the world is expressing
We depend so much on technology, yet we hardly care to know anything about it.
Great minds I finished (or gave up) wrestling with
Great minds that demand me to wrestle with
Where they are
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