🙏韋恩每日靈修:以掃帶著他的一切搬到別處 創世記36:1-8 (2026/08/07 禮拜五)
📜以掃帶着他的妻子、兒女和家中所有的人,以及他的牛羊、牲畜和一切財物,就是他在迦南地所得的,往別處去, 離開了他的兄弟雅各。
因為他們擁有的很多,不能住在一起。因為牲畜的緣故,寄居的地方容不下他們。
Esau took his wives, his children, and his entire household, along with his livestock and cattle—all the wealth he had acquired in the land of Canaan—and moved away from his brother, Jacob.
There was not enough land to support them both because of all the livestock and possessions they had acquired.
(創世記 Genesis 36:6-7 節)
💡誠如以掃,他雖未得到那「祝福」,但他的人生亦非全無世俗定義的「幸福」。被上主所揀選的「福分」,包含了被祂召來承受苦楚,或在上主的計畫中扮演特定角色,被祂用來成就其旨意。
你可曾想過,你願意選擇活在與上主計畫有分卻艱苦的人生,還是願意過平順的幸福生活,卻不一定要在上主的計畫中扮演任何重要角色?
(每日三讀三禱團隊)
❤️上帝的揀選是奧秘的,並非出於人的功德或選擇。但是行善或行惡、向左或向右,卻是我們每一天、甚至每一分每一秒都要作的選擇,並要為此被主問責。
(張勝為牧師)

(The Reconciliation Between Jacob and Esau, Peter Paul Rubens, 1628, 取自:britannica.com)