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我叫杰西，这次又邀请到了拉斐尔·布朗牧师与我一同主持。
My name is Jesse, and another round two, pastor Ronaldo Brown joining me.
本周，我们将围绕一个宏大的主题展开讨论：习惯的养成，或者说，信念的建立。
And, this week, we have, a great overall arching topic on, habits, forming habits, or in other sense, convictions too as well.
所以今天，我们要探讨的是冥想的习惯或信念。
So today, we get the habits or the conviction of meditation.
是的。
Mhmm.
为了开启今天的讨论，我们会先读一段《诗篇》第一章中我们摘选的部分，然后我们会结合其他经文，一起思考冥想的意义。
And maybe to start us off, we'll read from, Psalm one that we have drawn some of it to, and we'll bounce around from certain scriptures and think about meditation.
那么，我们先读《诗篇》第一章第一节。
And so let's read just Psalm one verse one.
不从恶人的计谋，不站罪人的道路，不坐亵慢人的座位，这人便为有福。
Blessed is the man that walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful.
但在第二 verse 中，他喜悦的是耶和华的律法。
But in verse two, but he delights his but his delight is in the law of the Lord.
他要昼夜默想这律法。
And in the law does he meditate day and night.
嗯。
Mhmm.
首先，第一个问题，什么是默想？
So first off, first question, what is meditation?
第二个问题是：昼夜不停。
And then the second question is day and night.
为什么我们必须昼夜不停地做？
Why do we have to do it day and night?
为什么诗篇要我们昼夜不停地默想？
Why does the Psalms tell us to do it day and night?
那么，我们也许可以先谈谈什么是默想，罗纳尔多牧师。
So maybe we could talk about what is meditation, Pastor Ronaldo.
非常好的想法。
Great great thought.
太棒了。
Love it.
太棒了。
Love it.
太棒了。
Love it.
我们生活在一个如今不要求我们动脑筋的社会里。
We live in a society right now where we're not asked to use our brain.
我们生活在一个如今要求我们用情感去感受的社会里。
We live in a society right now where we're asked to use our emotions to feel.
我觉得，如果你经常听人们说话的话。
I feel like if you listen to people talk all the time.
他们总是凭情感说话。
Like, they speak through their emotions.
当你用情绪表达时，你的大脑会陷入瘫痪。
When you speak through your emotions, you kind of paralyze your brain.
当这成为一种习惯，你就在练习不去思考。
And when that becomes the practice, you practice not thinking.
所以你并不是心不在焉。
So you're actually not absent minded.
你只是思维迟钝，因为你的大脑缺乏锻炼。
You just dull minded because your brain is out of practice.
你并不是故意去认真思考事情。
You don't on purpose intentionally think about things.
我们只是随口一说。
We say it randomly.
让我想想，但我们其实并没有去想。
Let me think about it, but we don't think about it.
但我们活在自己的感受和情绪中。
But we we live through our feelings and how we feel.
通过情绪来处理生活是很难的。
And that's hard processing life with through your feelings.
做决定很难，因为你的情绪并不是为此而设计的。
It's hard to make decisions because your emotions aren't designed to do that.
冥想是一种灵性的方式，可以帮助你的大脑走向正确的方向。
Meditation is a spiritual way to get your brain going in the right direction.
冥想是一种与上帝思维连接的方式。
Meditation is a way to connect with God's mind.
第一，你运用你的思维。
Number one, you utilize your mind.
第二，你触及上帝的思维。
Number two, you touch God's mind.
第三，你将上帝的思维融入你的思维中。
And then number three, you put God's mind in your mind.
这就是冥想。
And that's meditation.
他们被称为缪斯。
They they were called muses.
好的。
Okay.
‘缪斯’这个词意味着思考，或者边思考边娱乐。
From the the the word muse means to to think about or to to to think about and to amuse.
‘娱乐’这个词，我们英语中的‘amuse’意味着不思考。
Amusement, we get our our our English word amuse means no thinking.
我只是想去做点有趣的事，你知道的，当你四岁的时候这很棒。
I wanna just go have fun, you know, which is great when you're four years old.
但当你四十四岁的时候，这就糟透了。
It's horrible when you're 44 years old.
当你四十四岁的时候，这让人沮丧。
It's depressing when you're 44 years old.
我想去玩乐。
I wanna go have fun.
很多人就是活在当下。
Like, lot of people, they just they live for the moment.
他们渴望沉浸在情感的激动中，却不肯动脑思考。
They wanna live in the excitement of of emotion, but they don't use their brain.
我们生活中面临的大多数挑战，往往是因为我们不去思考。
And most of the time, many of the challenges we face in life is because we don't think.
你会说，我怎么没想到这一点呢？
You would say that like, why didn't I think about that?
因为你没有养成思考这个问题的习惯。
Because you're not in practice of thinking about that.
或者更重要的是，作为信徒，神对事物有祂的旨意。
Or more importantly, as a believer, God has a mind about things.
默想就是我培养神的意念在我心中的方式。
Meditation is how I cultivate God's mind in my mind.
如果你留意诗篇作者的话，他说的不只是思考神。
And if you notice the psalmist says, he says, not just thinking about God.
祂更具体。
He's more specific.
祂将范围缩小，通过祂的话语来思想神。
He kind of narrows it, thinking about God through his word.
因为除了自然之外，关于神是谁的最伟大启示就存在于圣经中。
Because next to nature, the greatest revelation of who God is is found in the scriptures.
当神的心思进入我里面时，会对我如何生活产生深远的影响。
When God's mind goes in, that has a profound effect on how I live my life.
加拉太书二章二十节。
Galatians two twenty.
对吧？
Right?
我凭信心、凭教义生活。
I live my life by the faith, by the doctrine.
诗篇一百一十九篇十一节，少年人怎样洁净他的行为？
Psalm one nineteen verse 11, how shall a man young man cleanse his ways?
我将你的道藏在心里，免得我得罪你。
By he I hide the word in my heart.
在这一应用中，它谈到了祂的思维方式。
And in that application, it speaks about his thinking.
我默想神的话。
I think on the word of God.
似乎诗篇一百一十九篇的作者正经历一些艰难的时刻。
And it seems as if the the psalmist in Psalm one nineteen is going through some tough things.
但他说：听听这些经文。
But he says, listen to these verses.
顺便说一下，注意诗篇第一篇第二节中‘喜乐’与‘默想’之间的结合。
And by the way, notice the marriage in Psalm one verse two between delight and meditation.
我如何在主里得喜乐？
How do I delight in the Lord?
我默想祂的道。
I meditate on his word.
这就是这位诗人的意思。
That's what this psalmist is saying.
接着在诗篇19篇15节，一直到15到16节，我必默想你的训词，看重你的道路。
And then again in Psalm one nineteen verse 15, all the way to verse fifteen and sixteen, I will meditate on thy precepts and regard thy way.
下一节说：我要因你的律例欢喜，永不忘记你的言语。
Next verse, I shall delight in thy statutes, and I shall not forget thy word.
对吧？
Right?
第23节说，即使君王坐着议论我，你的仆人仍默想你的律例。
Verse 23, even though princes sit and talk against me, thy servant meditates on thy statutes.
第24节说：你的法度是我喜乐的根源，也是我的谋士。
Verse 24, thy testimonies are my delight, and they are my counselor.
第47节，全部出自诗篇19篇：我要因你的诫命欢喜，因我爱它们，所以我才喜乐。
Verse 47, all from Psalm one nineteen, and I shall delight in thy commandments, which I love, which is why I delight.
正是神的话语不断在我思想中更新，使我得着喜乐，并带我进入稳固的境地。
So it's this constant invigoration of the word of God in my thinking that I delight, and it brings me to a place of stability.
就像马太福音四章四节说的，人活着不是单靠食物，而是靠上帝口里所出的一切话。为什么活在神的话语中如此重要？
I it's like, Matthew four four, man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from why is it important to live by the word?
或者耶利米书十五章十六节，我寻得你的言语就吃下去了，结果如何？
Or Jeremiah fifteen sixteen, I did find that word and I did eat it, and what happened?
这成了我灵魂的喜乐。
It was a rejoicing to my soul.
当一个人思想或默想神的话语时，会在生命中产生深远的影响。
There is a profound effect in someone's life when they think or meditate on the word of God.
就像一位作家所说的，一个非常流行的比喻：牛反刍。
It's kinda like, one writer puts it this way, kind of a very popular metaphor, cows where they chew the cud.
是的。
Yeah.
它们先吃下食物，然后又吐出来再嚼一遍，反复咀嚼，因为它们有四个胃。
They eat the food, then they kinda bring it back up and eat it again and just chew on it and get they get every they have four stomachs.
所以它们能从那团草中汲取全部的营养。
So they get every bit of nourishment out of that ball of grass.
每一丝营养。
Every bit of nourishment.
所以这意味着，诗篇62章11节，神说了一次，我听见了。
So it means, Psalm 62 verse 11, God spoke once I heard it.
但我听了两次。
But I heard it twice.
那是你的第一次。
That's your first.
是的。
Yeah.
我非常喜欢这一点。
I love that.
我也很喜欢，因为我喜欢那个我
I love that because I like the I
像属灵的，把它再带回。
like the spiritual bring it back.
是的。
Yes.
因为我们大多数人听圣经、读圣经时，都认为是在听神的声音，但要把它收回来，收回来，再收回来。
Because most of us, hear the Bible, we read the Bible is hearing God, but to get it back, get it back, get it back.
为什么？
Why?
这样人们就知道权能属于神。
Then men would know that power belongs to God.
所以在默想中，重演神的思维很重要，因为这才是你学习的方式。
So in meditation, it's important to rehearse God's mind because that's how you learn.
对。
Yeah.
学习的秘诀在于重复。
The the the secret to learning is repetition.
重复就是心灵的默想。
Repetition is mental meditation.
这就像心理上的重复。
It's like mental repetition.
我不断在脑海中刺激它。
I keep stimulating it in my mind.
这一周，我们在讨论：我希望作为一名信徒提升我生活的质量。
And this week, we're talking about, okay, I want to improve the quality of my life as a believer.
我想在日常生活中加入属灵的习惯或信念，以增强或提升我生命中对神的体验。
I wanna add spiritual habits or convictions to my daily living that will enhance or increase the experience of God in my life.
我该怎么做呢？
How do I do that?
冥想就是其中之一。
Meditation is one of them.
如果你不喜欢自己的思维方式，你就需要让神的心意充满你的思想。
If you don't like the way you're thinking, you need to have God's mind in your thinking.
对吧？
Right?
是的。
Yeah.
腓立比书四章八节怎么说？
What does say in Philippians four eight?
要思想这些事，意思是我正在想错误的东西。
Think on these things, which means I'm thinking on the wrong thing.
顺便说一下，他说保罗当时在监狱里。
He says that Paul is in prison, by the way.
所以我们可能会认为他有权利消极思考。
So we would give him the right to think poorly.
而我们大多数人想要为自己的思维方式找借口。
And most of us want justification for the way we think.
是的。
Yeah.
你这样对我，所以我有理由恨你。
You did this to me, so I'm I wanna be I'm justified to hate you.
我有理由生气。
I'm justified to be angry.
不。
No.
神在他的计划中，并没有给我空间不去与他一同思想。
God doesn't give space in his plan for me not to think with him.
他容许这样，但他从未说过：你知道吗？
He allows it, but he never says, you know what?
今天没关系。
It's okay today.
你今天过得很艰难。
You've had a tough day.
你不必与我一同思想。
You don't have to think with me.
他所说的是，你今天过得很艰难。
What he says is, you've had a rough day.
现在比以往任何时候，你都需要与我一同思考。
Now more than ever, you need to think with me.
所以我需要学习如何与上帝一同思考，不只是听罗马书10章17节，不只是听，不只是读提摩太前书4章13节，而是要默想，是的。
So I need to learn how to think with God, not just to hear Romans ten seventeen, not just to hear, not just to read in first Timothy four thirteen, but to meditate Yeah.
要咀嚼，要主动决定思考上帝在说什么。
To masticate, to intentionally decide to think about what God is saying.
我认为在实际生活中，这能提升我的生命。
And I think in a practical way, that can enhance my life.
我们昨天谈到了宽恕。
That we talked about forgiveness yesterday.
从实际角度来看，这些事能帮助我作为一个信徒更好地成长。
That in a in a practical way, it can enhance the way these things will help me as a believer.
这不是一本自助书籍。
This is not a self help book.
这不是某种释放的讲道。
This is not some deliverance sermon.
这并不是什么秘密信息。
This is not some secret message.
这也不是什么装在塑料瓶里的膏油。
This is not some anointing oil in a plastic bottle.
我只是个普通人，一个普通的家伙，过着我的生活，工作，上学。
This is me as a regular guy, a regular Joe, living my life, working, going to school.
但在这一切之中，我正通过祂的思维、祂的话语与神一同思考。
But in the middle of all of that, I'm thinking with God through his mind, through his word.
嗯。
Mhmm.
祂并没有说要默想所有神的事情，祂说的是要默想神的话语。
He didn't say meditate on all the things that God he said meditate on God's word.
是的。
Yeah.
神的话，祂话语的进入，在诗篇119篇30节中起到了什么作用？
The word of God, the entrance of his word does what in Psalm one nineteen one thirty?
它带来光明，使单纯的人得着理解。
It gives light, and it gives understanding to the simple.
事实上，在诗篇119篇中，每一节都提到了神的话语，除了那一节。
In fact, in Psalm one nineteen, in every verse but one, it mentions the word of God.
每一节都是如此。
In every verse.
这是诗篇中最长的一篇，每一节都在讲神的话语、神的话语，也许他真有所领悟。
It's the longest psalm in the in the Psalms, And in every one, it's the word of God, the word of God, the word maybe he's on to something.
是的。
Yeah.
他就像说：我的人生很艰难。
He's like, I'm going my life is rough.
对吧？
Right?
但我与神的话语同在，那是我的指引。
But I'm with the word of God, that's my counsel.
对吧？
Right?
肯定是这样。
That's gotta be.
任何给你属灵建议却不使用圣经的人，都不要相信他们。
And anybody that gives you spiritual counsel and doesn't use the Bible, don't trust them.
其次，他们应该让你认识上帝的品格。
Then number two, they should give you the Bible in God's character.
但重要的是，圣经必须成为我思维方式的一部分，因为我们是靠上帝的话而活。
But it's important that that the Bible be part of the way I think cause we live by the word of God.
对吧？
Right?
是的。
Yeah.
而且我们总是在思考。
And because and we're always thinking.
如果我们不默想神的话，我们就是在默想别的东西。
And if we're not meditating on a word, we're meditating on something.
当然。
Absolutely.
而当今世界对冥想的理解几乎是一种空无的状态，像是平静安宁，清空思绪、放松身心、不再焦虑、不再在这里。
And like the world right now, like, views meditation as almost like an emptiness kind of like a peaceful tranquility, like empty the mind and calm and I'm not stressed and I'm not here.
我只是单纯地、只属于我自己的状态，你知道吗？
I'm kind of just just me and me, myself and I, you know?
但这里所说的却截然不同。
And, but this is saying something so different.
这个词的希伯来原文是Hagah，拼写是h-a-g-a。
The the word, the Hebrew word is Hagah, h a g a.
这个词有多种含义。
And there's many meanings to this word.
我特别喜欢这一点，因为每次听到‘冥想’这个词，我都会想到它。
And I love it because I always thought about meditation when I heard about it.
好的。
Okay.
这是一种冥想。
It's meditation.
我坐下来。
I'm sitting down.
我正在默读我的圣经，嗯。
I'm reading my Bible to myself Mhmm.
也许只是在心里，真的，就这样而已。
Maybe in my own mind, really, and just that's it.
而这远不止如此，这个词甚至包含了诵读的意思，嗯。
And and what is much more than that, and the word even goes into reciting into Mhmm.
大声说出来，就像在默想它，我在向周围环境宣告它。
Saying it out loud, like meditating on it, and I'm speaking it, to the atmosphere.
这其实是一种与上帝的关系。
And, and it's really a relationship with God.
就像你在冥想，而我正在和上帝来回交谈。
Like, you're meditating, and I'm having a really I'm talking back and forth with God.
是的。
Mhmm.
这真美好，因为诗篇作者说，就像你所说的，我以它为乐。
And and that's beautiful because the psalmist says, like you says, I delight in it.
我期待每天那个时刻，当我来到神面前，与祂交谈，默想祂的话语。
Like, I look forward to that time in the day when I come and I go before God and I'm talking with God and meditating on his word.
我也期待在漫长的一天之后，是的。
And I look forward to after a long day Mhmm.
在晚上也默想神的话语，你知道的。
To meditate on the word, you know, at the at night too as well.
但我真的很喜欢。
So but I love it.
而且我也在诵读它。
It's also speaking it too as well.
我觉得这就像，别把它藏在心里。
I think that's like, don't keep it to yourself.
我只是想背诵出来。
It's just like, I wanna recite it.
我想反复练习。
I wanna rehearse it.
大声说出来。
Say it out loud.
声誉。
Reputation.
声誉。
Reputation.
当我不断地说出来并默想它时，我认为它就会发生转变。
And as I keep speaking it and meditating on it, I think then it transforms.
它开始在我里面发挥作用。
It starts to do its work in me.
这很好。
And That's good.
对。
Yeah.
你看看这些经文里，还有另外三种他们可以听的方式。
And and you see in these verses, there's there's three other ways that they could hear.
嗯。
Mhmm.
是什么？
What is it?
不随从恶人的计谋。
And walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly.
对。
Right.
你知道吗？
You know?
他可能在那里。
He could be there.
他可能站在罪人的道路上，或坐在讥诮者的座位上。
He could be standing in the way of sinners or sitting in the seat of the scornful.
但他的喜悦在于律法。
But know his delight is in the law.
如果我不以律法为乐，我就可能在短时间内偏离正道。
If I'm not delighting in the law, I could be sidetracked in a in a short way.
那么，有多少外界的声音或事物在试图吸引我的注意力呢？
And so how many voices or how many different things from the outside are trying to get my attention Mhmm.
它们会让我远离这种对上帝的默想，这就是我们要说的。
And keep me away from this meditation from God is what we're saying.
是的。
Yeah.
这是个很好的观点。
That's a good point.
就像回到你之前说的，我们总是把冥想视为一种东方的超然分离。
It's like and going back to what you said earlier, we always think of meditation as this eastern transcendental separation.
你刚才说得很好，就是清空自己。
You said it really good, the emptying of myself.
是的。
Yeah.
我们经常对人们说，你脑子里想的东西太多了。
We say to people all the time, you got too much on your mind.
清空你的思绪。
Empty your mind.
这里有个问题。
Here's the problem.
如果你清空了思绪，那就什么都没有了。
If you empty your mind, there's nothing.
在真空里，你反而会填充一些东西。
In the vacuum, you have something.
我们以为空明的心就是健康的心。
We assume an empty mind is a healthy mind.
其实不是。
It's not.
仅仅因为我决定不去想我的问题，并不能让我恢复。
Just because I I'm not gonna think about my problems doesn't restore me.
它并不能带给我平静。
It doesn't give me peace.
它带给我的是否认。
It gives me denial.
对吧？
Right?
这正是它真正带给我的东西。
That's what it gives me, really.
所以是的。
So Yeah.
小心你的静修时间不要太安静。
Be careful that your quiet time is not too quiet.
是的。
Yeah.
我的意思是，那就会是，哦，我正在享受我的静修时间。
I mean, that'd be, oh, I'm living my quiet time.
我喝着我的舒缓茶。
I drink my tension tamer tea.
别理我。
Leave me alone.
我不想这件事。
I'm not thinking about it.
我戴上了水晶。
I put on crystals.
我点上了蜡烛。
I put on my candle.
你平时怎么做？
What do you do?
我是在清空我的思绪，然后用什么去填充它？
I'm emptying my mind and filling it with what?
什么都没有。
Nothing.
这没有效率。
That's unproductive.
这没有收益。
That's unprofitable.
是的。
Yeah.
这很奇怪。
That's weird.
我有一个空空的头脑，什么都没有。
I have an empty mind with nothing.
不。
No.
上帝并没有说要清空你的思想。
God doesn't say empty your mind.
上帝说，要思想我的心思。
God says, think about my mind.
哇。
Wow.
这就是区别。
That's the difference.
圣经式的冥想并不是清空思想。
Biblical meditation is not an empty mind.
圣经式的冥想是让思想持续专注于你。
Biblical meditation is a mind that stayed on thee.
对吧？
Right?
以赛亚书26章，上帝说，坚心倚赖你的，你必保守他十分平安，他的心思是什么？
Isaiah 26, God will keep thee in perfect peace whose mind is what?
专注于你。
Stayed on thee.
这才是冥想。
That's meditation.
不是简单地忘记你所有的问题。
Not just forget about all your problem.
忘记你所有的罪。
Forget about all your sin.
忘记，忘记。
Forget forget.
空空如也。
Empty.
空空如也。
Empty.
属灵的冥想并不是六个人穿着瑜伽服围成一圈哼唱。
Spiritual meditation is not six people in a room wearing a yoga outfit and humming in circles.
这不符合圣经。
That's not the Bible.
这并不是冥想的真正含义。
That's not what meditation is.
当基督冥想时，他并没有清空自己的思想。
When Christ was meditating, he didn't empty his mind.
前面提到的腓立比书4章8节，以及腓立比书2章5节，都教导我们要以特定的方式思考。
The verse recorded earlier in Philippians four eight, Philippians two five, think a specific way.
这才是冥想的核心。
That's the heart of meditation.
第一，它不仅仅是不去想别的事情，更是要以特定的方式思考特定的对象——神。
Number one, it's not only is it not thinking about anything else, but it's the it's to think a specific way about a specific person, God.
要用神的心思来思考。
Think with God's mind.
其次，你在你所说内容的后半部分触及了一个非常关键的点。
Secondly, you hit something really good on the back part of what you said.
这并不是一种仪式。
It's not a ritual.
我知道，对我们有些人来说，冥想时总想固定一天中的某个时间段，但其实最合适的时间是任何时候。
I know sometimes with some of us with meditation, we have a certain period of time of day, like the but the right time is anytime.
别觉得你没在角落里花半小时喝茶、读圣经、吃格兰诺拉麦片，就等于没做冥想。
Don't feel like I didn't get my half an hour with my tea and my bible and my granola in a corner.
我没做到那一步。
I didn't get that.
哦，我这一天算毁了。
Oh, I'm I'm my day is ruined.
这并不是我的灵性咖啡。
It's not my spiritual cup of coffee.
哦，我从来就没有过那种体验。
Oh, I never have that.
哦，我今天过不去了。
Oh, I won't get through today.
不。
No.
不。
No.
不。
No.
不。
No.
你可以那样做，但要明白，对的时机随时都行。
You can have that, but understand the right time is anytime.
是的。
Yeah.
我在车里。
I'm in my car.
我有个午餐休息时间。
I've got a lunch break.
我可以与上帝冥想。
I can meditate with God.
也许这是一份不需要我全神贯注的工作，所以我可以一边做一边和上帝思考它。
Maybe it's a job that doesn't require me to focus on what I'm doing, so I can just do it and think with God about it.
但你要这样看。
But see it this way.
别把这当成仪式。
Don't see ritual.
对吧？
Right?
因为仪式最初是有目的或意图的，但它很快就会失去这些。
Because ritual began with the purpose or an intention, but it loses it very quickly.
是的。
Yeah.
不如把它看作一种关系，而不是仪式。
Rather see it as relationship, not ritual.
是的。
Yes.
你看，我是通过祂的话语与上帝建立关系的。
See, it's like I have a relationship with God through his word.
所以在这种关系中，这就是我在与祂连接。
So in the relationship, this is me connecting.
这是重新连接。
It's reconnecting.
比如，与一个人建立关系时，最困难的部分之一就是沟通。
Like, one of the toughest parts of a relationship with a person is communication.
嗯。
Mhmm.
当关系良好时，沟通也会顺畅。
When the relationship is good, the communication is good.
当关系不好时，沟通也会很差。
When the relationship is bad, the communication is bad.
就像你在创世记13章、16章看到的，在创世记16章末尾和17章开头，亚伯拉罕和神之间有十三年半的时间没有任何记录下来的沟通。
Like you see in Genesis 13, 16 at the end of Genesis 16 the beginning of Genesis 17, there's a thirteen and a half year gap where you have no recorded communication between Abraham and God.
出了问题。
Something was wrong.
第16章发生了什么？
What happened in chapter 16?
以实玛利出生了。
Ishmael happened.
所以亚伯兰做了一个错误的决定，与夏甲同寝，生下了以实玛利，我想他就不想跟神说话了。
So Eber made a bad choice, slept with Hagar, had Ishmael, and I guess he didn't wanna talk to God.
我们不知道是谁不想跟谁说话，但沟通中断了，他忙起来了。
We don't know who didn't wanna talk to who, but there was no communication He got busy.
持续了十三年。
For thirteen years.
你看，你说你忙，但十三年？
See, you say you're busy, but thirteen years?
我不知道你到底在忙什么，但十三年都这么忙？
I don't know what kind of herd you're breathing, but thirteen years of busy.
这听起来就像你根本没给我打过电话。
That's like that sounds like a, you don't you didn't call me.
嘿。
Hey.
你说过你会给我打电话的。
You said you would call me.
那是十三年前的事了。
That was thirteen years ago.
这说不通。
I doesn't go.
但那时候我是希望维持这段关系的。
But it was like, I want the relationship.
是的。
Yeah.
冥想正是激发与上帝沟通的方式。
That's what meditation stimulates communication with God.
冥想就是随时随地的礼拜。
Meditation is is church on the fly.
因为我们总是把礼拜视为一个特定的场所，在那里我与上帝连接。
Because we always see church as this location where I connect with God.
但作为信徒祭司，对吧，《启示录》第一章提到，我作为信徒祭司，可以来到上帝面前。
But as a believer priest, right, Revelation chapter one, I I as a believer priest, I can come before God.
《希伯来书》4章16节。
Hebrews four sixteen.
作为信徒祭司，我可以来到上帝面前。
As a believer priest, I can come to God.
我可以坦然无惧地亲近上帝。
I can boldly approach God.
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我可以与上帝交通。
I can commune with God.
怎么做？
How?
祷告是一种冥想的形式，是的。
Prayer is a form of meditation Yeah.
某种程度上是的。
In a way.
但我不一定非得祷告，也许只是思考，想着上帝的思想。
But I can just maybe not even just a prayer, just thoughts, thinking about God's thoughts.
对吧？
Right?
与上帝一同思考，将上帝的心意引入我的思维中。
Thinking with God's and introducing God's mind into my thinking.
我们中的一些人正在研读上帝的话语。
Some of us are in the word of God.
我们为教会印刷讲道内容。
We for church printed preaching.
有时我注意到，在我自己的生活中，我会大量思考圣经，然后去睡觉，它就会出现在我的梦里。
Sometimes I I noticed in my own life, I'll be thinking about the Bible a lot, and then I'll sleep, and it'll be in my dreams.
经文，不管是什么，就会突然浮现。
The verse, whatever, will just come.
它就就在那里。
It'll be right there.
我会想，哇。
I'm like, wow.
是的。
Yeah.
上帝的话语甚至以潜意识的方式侵入了我的思维，开始渗透其中。
It's invaded my thinking even in a subconscious way, the word of God begins to saturate.
比如，想象一下，一件衬衫放在一桶水里。
Like, yeah, like imagine for a second, a shirt in a bucket of water.
你把衣服放进水里，然后我们大多数人希望直接用脱水程序。
You put the shirt in the water and you slowly most of us want spin cycle.
你一跳进去，就想要麦当劳那种超快的速度。
You you jump in there, you want that McDonald's super fast.
我打开圣经，读圣经，然后匆匆翻过，我们经常这么做。
I open the Bible, read the Bible, and you run through, and we do that a lot.
读圣经当然是好的，但要小心。
Like, it's good to read the Bible, but be careful.
放慢速度。
Slow it down.
踩下刹车。
Pump the brakes.
是的。
Yeah.
别读得太快，以至于没有机会默想你所读的内容。
Don't read it so fast that there's no there's no opportunity to meditate on what you've read.
我宁愿只花一整天时间细细品味一节经文，也不愿匆匆读完整章以赛亚书。
I would rather take one verse and chew it all day than read the whole chapter of it, the whole book of Isaiah.
是的。
Yeah.
所以，我可以读以赛亚书，但你读了什么？
So I can I read Isaiah, and what did you read?
我不确定。
I'm not sure.
有时候，当你听人讲道时，很难把信心与所有内容结合起来。
It's like sometimes when you listen to the Bible being preached, you it's hard to mix faith with all of it.
是的。
Yeah.
这就像一个四十五分钟的讲道。
It's like a forty five minute message.
你很难与全部内容产生共鸣，但你可以向神求一个想法。
You it's hard to connect with all of it, but you ask God this one thought.
上帝，给我一点可以细细咀嚼的东西，一节经文、一个原则、一个教义，让我在脑海中反复琢磨，提出问题，慢慢地说出来。
God, give me something to chew on, A verse, a principle, a doctrine, and let me just spin that in my head and ask questions and say it slowly.
甚至像一句圣经经文：耶稣爱我。
Even a Bible verse like, Jesus loves me.
耶稣爱我。
Jesus loves me.
耶稣爱我。
Jesus loves me.
耶稣爱我。
Jesus loves me.
慢慢地咀嚼，慢慢地默想，缓缓地在脑海中反复品味。
Just slow and slow mastication, meditation, turning it around in my head slowly.
这就是你学会一个人名字的方式。
That's you learn somebody's name.
你只是不断地重复，慢慢地，问自己一个问题。
You just kind of over and over repetition, slow, ask yourself a question.
耶稣是吗？
Is Jesus?
他真的爱我吗？
He actually loves me?
这到底意味着什么？
What does that actually mean?
而我，难道我值得你直接开始默想，然后你就拥有了吗？
And me, do I deserve you just start meditating, then you have it.
比如，我现在就可以告诉你，我年轻的时候，曾经试图背诵经文。
Like, I can tell you right now, when I was younger, I used to try to memorize verses.
我在这方面很糟糕。
I'm horrible at it.
当我真的试图背诵一段经文时，我总是失败。
When I actually try to memorize a verse, I fall on my face.
有些人很擅长。
Some guys are skillful.
他们能记住。
They can remember.
我记不住。
I can't.
是的。
Yeah.
但如果我多想想，如果我静心默想它，嗯。
But if I think about it a lot, if I meditate on it Mhmm.
这是珍宝。
It's gold.
它浮现的方式真令人惊叹。
It's amazing how it comes.
它就在那里的方式真令人惊叹。
It's amazing how it's there.
因为我已经投入并致力于思考它。
It because I've I've dedicated and committed myself to thinking about it.
当任何事物侵入你的思绪时，就像诱惑一样，它会动摇你的心。
And when anything gets in your thinking, just like temptation, when anything gets in your thinking, it moves your heart.
动摇你的双脚。
Moves your feet.
它会驱使你行动。
It moves you.
是的。
Yeah.
这就是它的力量所在，因此你必须谨慎自己的想法。
This is the power of that's why you've gotta be careful how you think.
对。
Yes.
当《箴言》4章23节说‘你要保守你心’时，是的，
When it says guard your heart in Proverbs four twenty three Yeah.
你是在思考你的情绪。
You're thinking about your emotions.
它谈的是你的思想。
It's talking about your thinking.
对。
Yes.
在圣经中，许多地方提到心时，指的是一个人的思想和选择方式。
Many times in the scriptures where the heart is mentioned, it's talking about the way the person thinks and chooses.
守护你的思想。
Guard your thinking.
对吧？
Right?
因为所有的罪都始于哪里？
Because the where does all sin begin?
在脑海中。
In the mind.
耶稣在马太福音第五章说了什么？
What did Jesus say in Matthew five?
如果一个人心里想着奸淫，他就已经犯了。
If a man thinketh adultery in his heart, he's committed it.
就别再这样想了。
Just stop thinking it.
哇。
Wow.
所以意思是，好吧。
So it's like, okay.
如果我的思想充满危险，我就想与神一同思考。
If my mind is dangerous, I wanna think with God.
首先，我们之前说了什么？
First, what did we say?
我们说，要确保你的灵修时间不要太安静。
We said, make sure my quiet time is not too quiet.
嗯。
Mhmm.
这是最重要的。
It's number one.
我并不是只想在角落里泡杯茶，安静地度过我的灵修时间。
I don't I'm not just trying to have my quiet time in a corner with my tea.
不是的。
No.
我想有果效。
I wanna be profitable.
第二，从关系的角度来思考。
Number two, think from position of relationship.
是的。
Yeah.
不是一种仪式或义务。
Not a ritual or duty.
冥想不是一种义务。
Meditation is not a duty.
这并不是一种责任。
It's not a responsibility.
这甚至不是习惯这样的词都可能有点勉强，你应该从关系的角度来想。
It's not a it's it's even not wouldn't even the word habit might be a little but think relationship.
对吧？
Right?
你有没有注意到，当你和某人建立关系时，你会多么频繁地想到他们？
Have you noticed when you're in a relationship with somebody, how much you think about them?
有多频繁？
How often?
是的。
Yeah.
你告诉我们，我每天都会想到你。
You tell us, I think about you every day.
我的意思是，这些想法是自然而然出现的。
I mean, it's they're they endanger thoughts.
结果是，它们会干扰你的言语和决策能力。
And then the result is they endanger speech and your decision making.
这个人就会冒出来。
This person comes up.
对吧？
Right?
在他的关系中。
To his relationship.
是的。
Yeah.
然后我们说，要小心试图预留一个完美的时间。
And then we said, be careful about trying to set aside this perfect time.
今天可能是完美的，但明天就不一定了。
It might be the perfect today, but it might not be tomorrow.
但我不想把我的冥想限制在某种日程或公式中。
But I don't want to limit my my meditation to a schedule or formula.
是的。
Yeah.
这里有17种方法可以改善你的冥想。
Well, here's 17 ways to improve your meditation.
我希望它能融入我的生活。
I want it in my life.
对吧？
Right?
但不要把它当作工作要求。
But not as a as a work requirement.
别把它变成一份工作。
Don't make it a job.
是的。
Yeah.
如果把它当作一种关系，那它必须比这更亲密、更个人化。
If it's a relationship, it's gotta be more intimate than that, more personal than that.
你能再详细说说这个吗？
Can you maybe speak on that more?
因为对我来说，我确实需要一个日程安排。
Because like for me, like, I feel like I needed the schedule.
一开始我需要这个来真正把它纳入生活，因为如果写进去了，我就更有动力去执行。
I needed that at first to like really put it in there because if it's in there, then I'm more committed to do it.
我把它写下来了。
I wrote it down.
它就在那里。
It's in there.
就像和妻子的约会之夜。
Kind of like a date night with my wife.
因为得把它写进日程，我们都很忙，还有两份不同的工作，等等。
Like, have to kind of write it in because we're busy and we have two separate jobs, yada yada.
而正因为有了这个安排，我们就更愿意去坚持了。
And then, you know, because we have that, like, we're more committed to that.
然后通过这种方式，过一段时间后，我们或许就能摆脱这种安排了，因为我们已经养成了习惯或信念，现在我可以自然而然地去做这件事了。你觉得拥有这样的安排怎么样？
And then it's through that, then I, you know, maybe we could get away from it after a while because we've done it and it's formed a a habit or conviction, and now I'm able to, you know, just so what what do you think about having that?
我觉得这是一个很好的开始。
I I think it's a good starter.
是的。
Yeah.
这就像能让我动起来一样。
It's kinda like it's like it gets me going.
就像去健身房一样，也许我想养成在固定时间和朋友一起去的习惯，这样就能让我行动起来。
It's like going to the gym, maybe I wanna have a habit of going at a certain time with a buddy, and that gets me going.
但当它成为我身份的一部分时，信念或习惯才真正成型。
But at some point, when it becomes part of who I am and here's how a conviction or a habit becomes real.
它会成为你身份的一部分。
It becomes part of your identity.
它有没有超越你的日程安排？
Did it engage did it transcend your schedule?
就像你去做了。
It's like you do it.
举个例子，你以前有个刷牙的时间安排。
Like, case in point, there was a certain schedule you had for brushing your teeth.
一开始是这样的。
And to start Yeah.
希望如此。
Hopefully.
于是你开始每天早上起床前刷牙。
So then it started, and you brushed your teeth every morning before you woke up.
对吧？
Right?
是的。
Yeah.
但到了某个阶段，它就超越了例行公事。
But at a certain point, it's beyond routine.
是的。
Yeah.
你此刻并不需要去做。
You you don't need to do it at the moment.
你可以随时做，因为清洁牙齿的目标高于遵守固定时间表的责任。
You can do it anytime you want to because the goal of clean teeth is higher than the responsibility it is to a schedule.
所以你有了这种良好的平衡，比如，好吧，也许我刚开始。
So that you have that's a good balance by you, like, okay, yeah, maybe I'm starting.
好吧，那我该怎么做到呢？
Okay, so how do I do that?
我们来谈谈这个。
Well, let's talk about that.
我该如何开始培养冥想的习惯？
How do I start developing the habit of meditation in my life?
我们已经讨论过它是什么了。
We've talked about what it is.
它有很多形式。
There's a lot of forms to it.
就像你说的，冥想可以是我口头表达、重复、大声朗读经文、带着强调地阅读、个性化地理解。
Like you said, meditation could be me verbalizing, repeating, reading it verse out loud, reading it with emphasis, personalizing.
它可以是把它写下来。
It could be writing it out.
它可以是提出问题。
It could be asking questions.
它可以是反复重读。
It could be rereading it over and over.
它可以是思考它。
It could be thinking about it.
它可以是为这一切祈祷，作为冥想。
It could be praying about all of that as meditation.
你拥有非常广阔的机会。
It's a very wide opportunity you have.
最重要的是你和上帝之间的关系。
The most important thing about it is between you and God.
是的。
Yeah.
有时候你可能会邀请别人一起冥想，我就曾和一些人这样做过，比如：我们一起来思考这节经文吧。
Sometimes you may invite someone else to meditate with a I've done that with people like, okay, let's think about this verse together.
那就是集体冥想。
Then that's corporate meditation.
当你来到教会，坐在会众中聆听同样的道时，那就是集体冥想。
When you come to church and you sit in a congregation listening to the same word, that's corporate meditation.
然后我们都在希伯来书4章2节中，将信心与所听见的结合在一起。
And then we're all in Hebrews four two mixing faith with what we've heard.
是的。
Yeah.
因为这是上帝的话语，所以我必须用信心去理解它，甚至使自己与它对齐。
Because this is the word of God, so I I automatically have to use faith to even comprehend it or even even align myself with it.
这需要信心。
It requires faith.
所以好吧。
So okay.
让我们一起来想想一些方法吧，因为我可能在听讲道时想，好吧，牧师。
What let's think of some ways together here, because maybe I'm listening to the props and say, okay, pastor.
我想练习冥想。
I I wanna work on meditation.
我觉得这可能会对我有帮助。
I think it could help me.
因为问题在这里。
Because here's the problem.
你其实已经在做冥想了。
You already do meditation.
是的。
Yeah.
问题不在于你没有冥想。
The question is not that you're not meditating.
而在于你冥想的是什么？
It's what are you meditating on?
你在想什么？
What are you thinking about?
对吧？
Right?
这是一次不错的短暂禁食。
That's a good little fast.
最好在一天结束时，写下你当天思考最多的前五到十个主题。
Best you can, at the end of the day, write down the top five or 10 topics you think you've thought about the most in the day.
哦，天哪。
Oh, wow.
这会令你震惊。
It'll shock you.
而且通常，它们要么与责任有关，要么与危机有关。
And usually, they're either responsibility oriented or crisis related.
是的。
Yeah.
责任，比如我得做这件事。
Responsibility, like, I gotta do this.
你一直在想它。
You thought about it.
或者危机，有什么事情发生了。
Or crisis, something's happening.
我想要，而你正在对此做出反应。
I want and you're reacting to it.
然后它抓住了你的思绪。
And then it grabs your mind.
它抓住了你的恐惧，恐惧就是这样起作用的。
It grabs your like, fear can do that.
情绪可能会劫持你的思维，让你长时间以某种方式思考。
They can emotions can hijack your thinking and cause you to think a certain way for a long period of time.
冥想之所以有效，是因为当你持续冥想一段时间后，它能让你平静下来。
Meditation can here's why it calms your nerves when you when you meditate for a good season.
它能让你放松，因为你不再需要费力去琢磨人生的意义。
It calms you down because it takes the burden off of trying to figure life out.
是的。
Yeah.
我可以专注于神的事物。
I can focus just on God's things.
我想建议从冥想开始，在早晨祷告时，求神赐给我一些关于祂的思考内容。
I would say to start, meditation, I wanna ask God when my morning prayer, give me something to think about concerning you.
或者我可能会更主动地打开圣经，挑选一节经文。
Or I might be more intentional and open my Bible and pick a verse.
不一定是一整章。
Maybe not a chapter.
我不是在说只是读圣经、读章节。
I'm not talking about just reading the Bible, reading chapters.
通读圣经很好。
Go reading through the Bible is great.
读圣经有助于让圣经话语充满你的思想，但只选一句。
Read the Bible helps saturate your mind with the scriptures, but grab one.
我不会建议超过一节经文。
I wouldn't say more than a than a verse.
别选两句。
Don't get two.
别选五句。
Don't get five.
就选一句。
Get one.
好的。
Okay.
歌罗西书二章十节。
Colossians two ten.
我在他里面得以完全。
I'm completed in him.
我想好好想想这一点。
I want to think about that.
也许我可以把它写在一张纸上。
Maybe I write that down on a piece of paper.
我曾经有一个一起工作的伙伴。
I had one guy that I was working with.
他说话很有重点。
He had a talk with focus.
所以我跟他说，每天选一节经文，设为你的屏幕保护程序。
So I said, every day, pick a verse and make it your screensaver.
是的。
Yeah.
所以他就把歌罗西书的经文设为屏幕保护，每次他拿起手机——对我们西方人来说，这频率很高——他都能立刻看到那节经文。
So every so he so he would put it on us with a Colossians, and he put it us and then every time he picked up his phone, which is a lot, for us Western people, it's a lot, he would see the verse right there.
他能看到地址和经文。
He'd see the address and the verse.
是的。
Yeah.
要思想这些事。
Think on these things.
然后他，哦，他把它记下来了。
And then he oh, and he put it down.
把它拿起来。
Pick it up.
每次都会在那里。
It would be right there every time.
是的。
Yeah.
所以它就直接呈现在他面前，潜移默化地，他不断看到它。
So it was it was in it was right in front of him subliminally, and he kept seeing it.
然后我会说，每天换一张纸，谈论它，思考它，向别人提起它，把它介绍给你自己，这样你就让自己的思想充满它。
Then I would say just and then every day, change the paper, talk about it, think about it, mention it to people, introduce it to your and then you're saturating your mind with it.
然后你可以就此向神祈求。
And then because then approach God about it.
神啊，这对我意味着什么？
What does that mean for me, God?
是的。
Yeah.
我知道经文怎么说，但它到底意味着什么？
I know what it says, but what does it mean?
你也可以把它带给其他人，这样整天你都在谈论它、思考它，进行默想，就像你所说的，不需要那种仪式化的做法。
And then you could bring it to other people too And as then it's just like, alright, throughout the day, I'm talking about it, thinking about I am meditating without, you know, like you said, going down to this ritual kind of thing.
我喜爱它的美好之处，因为其中蕴含着极大的自由，你知道，因为神就是这样。
And I love the beauty of it because it's there's a lot of liberty in it, you know, because that's how God is.
他只是想与我们建立关系并进行交流。
He just wants to have relationship and communication with us.
当然。
Absolutely.
所以一旦我们回应他，嗯。
So once we kind of reciprocate it to him Mhmm.
他会像你说的那样，开始在梦境中等地方把它带回来。
He's gonna start bringing it back up, like you said, the in the dreams and whatnot.
这其实有点吓人。
That's scary, actually.
是的。
Yeah.
梦到圣经。
Dream about the Bible.
我还没在梦中看到过圣经经文闪过。
I haven't had a a Bible verse flash across my eyes yet in a dream.
所以但这会像碎片一样。
So but It'll be like pieces.
这太可怕了。
It's so scary.
就像，那是什么？
Like like, what is that?
就像某种东西。
It's like something.
然后你醒了，我以前醒过，写下了些东西，那就是它。
Then you wake I've woken up before and said and wrote something down, and it was that.
或者有时候早上醒来时，那是你首先想到的事情。
Or sometimes in the morning when you do wake up, it's like the first thing you think about.
是的。
Yeah.
因为导航者，那个曾经向基督教组织分发圣经的团体，有一个说法叫‘首词末词’。
Because, the Navigators, the Bible group that used to hand out Bibles to Christian organization, they had a phrase called first word, last word.
好的。
Okay.
它的意思是，早上你看到的第一个词是《圣经》。
And what it meant was in the morning, the first word you have is the Bible.
在看手机之前，在做任何其他事情之前，第一个词是《圣经》；晚上最后一个词也是《圣经》。
Before you look at your phone, before you do anything else, the first word was and then at night, the last word was the Bible.
在翻身、翻个身、上床之前，你最后看的不是手机，而是《圣经》。
Before you spin, roll over, hit the bed, the very last thing you look at is not your phone, but the last thing you look at is the Bible.
他们就是用这种方式来安排一天的开始和结束。
And that and that's how they would frame their evening, beginning and end.
对大多数人来说，你一动不动待得最久的地方就是睡觉的时候。
That's and for most people, that's the place you're in the longest without moving is when you sleep.
你只是牢牢地把一整晚的开头和结尾都用《圣经》来包围。
You just locked in and you just bookend your bookend your night with the Bible.
这很好。
That's good.
我喜欢这个。
I like that.
比如，把它定下来，你知道的，因为我们能掌控早晨醒来时的开端。
Like, frame it, you know, because we are in control of kind of, you know, the beginning of our morning waking up.
是的。
Mhmm.
我们可以比平时早醒五分钟来做这件事，就像你说的。
We can wake up a little five minutes early to get this, like you said.
是的。
Mhmm.
从小处开始。
Start off small.
这太重要了。
That's huge.
一段经文，一个词，或一句简短的话。
One scripture, one word, one little phrase.
我可以把这句话裱起来，这样在我一天结束、一切逐渐平静时，就能更好地掌控自己的夜晚。
I could frame and then I can be more control of my evening when everything's winding down.
而在中间时段，可能会有太多事情向我袭来。
And then the middle, there's could be so much thrown at me.
正如你所说，我们看到《诗篇》119章23到24节。
And we see this, like you said, Psalm 119 verse 23, 24.
经文说：即使诸侯坐着密谋陷害我，你的仆人仍要默想你的律例。
He says, Even though the princes sit and plot against me, your servant will meditate on your statutes.
经文说：你的法度是我喜乐的源泉。
He says your testimonies are my delights.
它们是我的导师。
They are my counselor.
所以，麻烦会贯穿我一整天。
So trouble comes throughout my day.
一整天里，麻烦都会不断出现。
Throughout my day, trouble comes.
在困境中，冥想是非常有益的。
Meditation is a great thing to have during trouble.
确实如此。
Absolutely.
但敌人想要让我们专注于困境，以及我们脑海中各种各样的担忧或其他东西，嗯。
But the enemy wants to really just hone us in with trouble, different things in our projections in our mind, whatever it is Mhmm.
让我们远离我们刚才谈到的关于冥想的信念。
To get us away from this conviction we're talking about meditation.
因为这正是你真正需要的。
Because this is exactly actually what you need.
也许你正在挣扎，我们每个人在某些时候都会这样。
Maybe you're struggling and going we all are at some point.
我们需要专注的一件事是：主啊，也许我需要停下来，你知道，停下来。
And the one thing is we should hone in on, okay, Lord, maybe I have to take a stop, you know, stop.
嗯。
Mhmm.
安静地坐下来，平静下来，只是冥想，向你祈求和倾诉。
Quiet sit back, quiet down, and and just meditate and just ask and talk with you.
嗯。
Mhmm.
那我们通常做什么呢？
Because what do we do?
我们总是想得太多，确实如此。
We we overthink Absolutely.
事情会如何发展？
How everything's turning.
我该怎么解决这个问题？
How can I fix this?
我该怎么解决那个问题？
How can I fix that?
但诗人说，你的法度是我喜乐的源泉。
But the psalmist is saying, like, the testimonies are my delight.
它会给我的生活带来喜悦，并在这种情况中给我指引。
It'll bring delight in my life, and they'll counsel me in this situation.
这正是我们最需要的。
And that's what we need most.
确实如此。
Absolutely.
因为也许有些事情是我们无法做到的，你知道吗？
Because maybe it's something we cannot do, you know?
也许冥想就是我现在度过这段艰难时刻的方式，但我在当下得到了安慰，之后或许就能去安慰他人。
Maybe just meditation is me just now getting through this tough moment, but I'm being comforted in the moment where then I can maybe comfort others.
因此，冥想真的能为黑暗的处境带来光明，这真是太奇妙了。
So it's an amazing thing that meditation can really bring light into a a dark situation.
是的。
Yeah.
我们大多数人并不会在危机中想到冥想。
Most of us don't think meditation in crisis.
是的。
Yeah.
对吧？
Right?
如果你注意到自己在压力下，你会变得更快。
We if you notice when you're under pressure, you you get faster.
是的。
Yeah.
对。
Yeah.
你说话更快，思考更快，反应也更快。
You talk faster, you think faster, you get fast.
这就是小偷和骗子想要骗你时所做的事情。
This is what thieves do, what con men do when they wanna trick you.
他们让你紧张起来，让你变得匆忙。
They get you going, they get you fast.
是的。
Yeah.
因为当你失去注意力时，你就不会那么警觉了。
Because you lose you get you don't pay attention, you're not as observant.
他们让你说话，让你分心，然后你就没注意到。
They get get you talk and before you don't hey.
等一下。
Wait a minute.
你只是停止了注意。
You just stop paying attention.
这就是撒旦对我们所做的。
And that's what Satan does with us.
他让我们变得匆忙。
He gets us fast.
对。
Yes.
他在我的思想上迅速抓住我。
He gets me fast in my thinking.
他在我的行为上迅速抓住我。
He gets me fast in my doing.
然后你就想，我做了什么？
And then you're like, what have I done?
你是在没想清楚之前就说了出来。
Well, you you spoke before you thought.
你有没有做过这种事？
Have you done that?
有。
Yes.
他让世界、肉体和魔鬼迅速抓住你。
He had the world and the flesh and the devil get you fast.
它们会非常、非常快地抓住你。
They get you very, very fast.
然后他们让你变得非常笼统。
And then they they get you very, very general.
你只是匆匆略过一切。
You just kind of gloss over everything.
我们就是这样产生夸大其词的。
That we that's where the exaggeration comes.
我的人生因为这一件事彻底毁了。
Oh, my life is ruined because of this one thing.
对吧？
Right?
那么，冥想到底有什么作用？
So it's like, what does meditation do?
它直击要害，一针见血。
Two things that you hit them on the head, the nail on the head.
第一，冥想让我慢下来。
Number one, meditation slows me down.
它让我慢下来。
It slows me down.
我生活中很少有安全带。
There are very few seat belts in my life.
但当你被圣灵充满时
But when the Holy Spirit you're filled with
圣灵，圣灵首先做的一件事就是让你慢下来。
the Holy Spirit, the first thing Holy Spirit does is slow you down.
他让你放慢。
He slows you.
他是信徒的终极安全带。
He's the ultimate seat belt for the believer.
他让你慢下来。
He slows you down.
而冥想的第二件事是让你更具体。
And the second thing meditation does is it makes you specific.
别想那个。
Don't think about that.
想这个。
Think about this.
哇。
Wow.
别那样想。
Don't think that way.
非常、非常具体，当你放慢脚步时，这很容易做到。
Very, very specific, which is easy when you slow down.
但如果你以每小时100英里的速度试图变得具体，那是做不到的。
But if you're trying to be specific at a 100 miles an hour, you're not.
是的。
Yeah.
但如果你放慢脚步，这就是为什么在诗篇第一篇和列王纪上第十九章第十二节中，圣灵以微小的声音对以利亚说话。
But if you slow down, that's why in Psalm one Psalm, first Kings nineteen twelve, the Holy Spirit spoke God spoke to Elijah in a still small voice.
放慢速度。
Slow it down.
把它变得非常、非常具体。
Get it very, very specific.
这有助于我们很多人避免变得太快；顺便说一下，你的情绪会让你像脱水机一样转个不停。
And that's what helps a lot of us from getting too fast and getting too and by the way, your emotions get you spinning like a spin cycle.
是的。
Yeah.
冥想是一种让自己静下来、活在当下的方式——你不必真的坐下来，但在当下，放慢节奏，变得具体，然后安静下来。
And meditation's one way to sit down or in the moment, you don't have to sit down physically, but in the moment, slow down, get specific, and get quiet.
情绪反应越强烈，你就越需要放慢速度。
And the greater the emotional reaction is, the more you need to slow down.
放慢速度。
Slow it down.
放慢速度。
Slow it down.
比如做个测试，因为我们有个问题，嗯。
Like run a test because we have a problem Mhmm.
关于放慢速度和保持安静。
With slowing down and being quiet.
是的。
Yep.
试着在一个房间里坐五分钟，你知道的，慢慢开始，看看你是否能坚持五分钟而不走神，或者不伸手去拿手机。
Try to sit in a room for five minutes, you know, just, you know, start slow slow and see if you could even make five minutes without your mind wandering or whatnot or reaching for my phone.
嗯。
Mhmm.
这太不可思议了。
It's incredible.
而这个世界其实是被分心构建起来的。
And we have the world is built by distraction, really.
是的。
Yes.
这不正是潘多拉魔盒的终极反应吗？
Isn't that Pandora's box's ultimate reaction?
分心。
Distraction.
对吧？
Right?
这不正是欺骗的开端吗？
Isn't that the beginning step to deception?
分心。
Distraction.
这不正是小偷和罪犯常用的手段吗？
Isn't that what thieves and criminals use?
分心。
Distraction.
是的。
Yeah.
手法误导的 distraction。
Sleight of hand distraction.
如果我能让你在思想上分心，你的身体就会随之跟随。
If I can get you distracted in your mind, your body will follow.
一切都随之而来。
Everything follows.
只是 distraction。
Just distraction.
所以他们挡住了路。
So they get in the way.
冥想让我安定下来。
And meditation grounds me.
它把我带回来。
It brings me back.
顺便说一句，当你能进入冥想状态时，上帝就能成就伟大的事。
And by the way, when you can be meditative, God can do great things.
以撒，我要说，以撒娶了妻子。
Isaac, I wanna say, Isaac got a wife.
在《创世记》24章63节，以撒到田野里去默想，就遇见了妻子。
In Genesis twenty four sixty three, Isaac went into the fields to meditate, and there comes the liaison with the wife.
阿门。
Amen.
所有单身的弟兄们，这就是关键。
All you single guys out there, this is it.
你们不需要滑动右划。
You don't need to swipe right.
你们不需要做别的，只需要默想。
You don't need to be on all you gotta do is just meditate.
来吧，现在。
Come on now.
他说：牧师，我去了停车场，静坐默想，然后翻过山丘，一辆四门丰田卡罗拉开了过来，后座上有个女孩，我就说：那就是我的未来。
He's like, pastor, I went in the parking lot and I meditated and then over the hill and a four and a Toyota Corolla came my dad, and this girl in the back seat, I said, that's my future.
看看会发生什么，各位？
See what happens, guys?
那就是秘诀，对。
That's the tickets Yeah.
在帮助你。
Helping you.
但我得跟你们说一件事。
But I will say this to you.
你会学得更好。
You'll study better.
冥想会提升你的学习效果。
Meditation would improve your study life.
在场的牧师们应该都同意我的说法。
Pastors out there can agree with me.
当我刚开始研读圣经时，我花很长时间进行深入的释经，但我的冥想时间却很短。
When I first started studying the Bible, I had a long intense hermeneutic, and then my meditation was short.
现在我花在冥想上的时间比实际学术研究还要多。
Now I spend more time in meditation than I do in actual scholarship.
我的学术研究时间变短了，而冥想时间变长了。
My scholarship is shorter, and my meditation is longer.
因为上帝在冥想中所做的，是一种交融。
Because what God does in meditation is there's this mingling.
这种交融将你所学的内容与启示结合在一起，带来光明。
There's this mingling of what you've studied, and it gives you light.
诗篇36章9节说：在光中，你会得着更多的光。
Psalm 36 verse nine, in light, you get more light.
我学术研究的光，通过冥想中的更多光明得到了增强。
The light of my scholarship is enhanced with more light in my meditation.
比如，我会研究一节经文的原文、背景和相关经文。
Like, may study a verse in original languages, background, correlated verses.
好的。
Okay.
那可能需要半小时、四十五分钟，或一小时，但之后还要真正地消化它。
That might be a half an hour, forty five minutes, or an hour, but then to actually churn it.
是的。
Yeah.
对我来说，有时我可能会花三四个小时深入研究某个主题，但接下来的十八个小时，我都在脑子里反复琢磨它。
I know for me, sometimes I can study something, put a lot of study into some three hours, four hours, but then for the next eighteen hours, I'm churning that in my head.
我在思考历史上的例子。
I'm thinking about historical examples.
我在思考实际的应用。
I'm thinking about practical application.
我在思考这节经文、这个主题、这个核心思想。
I'm thinking about this verse, this topic, this theme.
我在不断思考、反复推敲，然后上帝就赐下新的领悟。
I'm thinking spinning, spinning, and then God gives you fresh things.
你不会得到新的真理，但你会有崭新的领悟。
You won't have new truth, but you have fresh truth.
是的。
Yeah.
新鲜的。
Fresh.
只有通过默想，才能获得新鲜感。
And freshness only comes through meditation.
你不可能从注释书中得到这种感觉。
You're not gonna get that out of a commentary.
你不可能从词典里得到这种感觉。
You're not gonna get that out of a dictionary.
你在互联网上找不到这种新鲜感。
You're not gonna find freshness on the Internet.
你找不到。
You're not.
网上有人说过的话，早就有别人说过类似的话了。
Some whatever somebody said on the Internet, someone else has said it before.
去谷歌搜索一下就知道了。
Just Google it and find out.
AI会告诉你这些。
AI will tell you that.
别人以前已经说过这些了。
Somebody else said it before.
所以你不会有什么新东西，传道书里说‘日光之下无新事’。
So you're not gonna nothing's new under the sun in Ecclesiastes.
那我怎么才能获得新鲜感呢？
So how do I have freshness?
冥想会改变你的学习时间。
Meditation will change your study time.
试试看。
Try it.
研读一节经文。
Study a verse.
从释经学的角度深入研究，或者根据你想要深入的程度去研读，然后好好思考。
Study it out hermeneutically or as far as you want to take it, then just think about it.
思考一下，神如何通过这段经文向你说话。
Think about watch God speak to you right through it.
祂必以光明回报你的默想。
He will reward your meditation with light.
我们之前说过，祂话语的进入带来光明。
The entrance of his word gives light, we said earlier.
对吧？
Right?
祂话语的进入带来光明。
The entrance of his word gives light.
比如在《撒母耳记下》第七章，神通过先知拿单对大卫说话，拿单说：你不能为我建造殿宇。
Or like, in first second Samuel seven, God speaks to David through the prophet Nathan, and Nathan says, you will not build my house.
因为你手上沾了太多血。
There's too much blood on your hands.
大卫本可以感到沮丧。
David could have been upset.
如果我为上帝所做的一切，换来的都是这样的话，我一定会很沮丧。
I would have been upset if everything I did for God, this is what he says.
是的。
Yeah.
你知道大卫做了什么吗？圣经怎么说？
You know what David does, the Bible says?
在撒母耳记下第七章第18节，大卫进去坐在耶和华面前。
He says in verse 18 of second Samuel seven, David went in and sat before the Lord.
他说：我要默想。
He just said, I'm gonna meditate.
哇。
Wow.
我要默想。
I'm gonna meditate.
当他与拔示巴犯了罪，孩子本该死去时，他不断祷告求神改变，祷告了又祷告，但神说不行。
When he committed the sin with Bathsheba and and the baby was supposed to die, he said he prayed against it and he prayed against it and he prayed against it, and God said, no.
这事一定会发生。
It's gonna happen.
事情真的发生了。
It happened.
他沐浴、默想，并与神同行。
He bathed, he meditated, and he walked with God.
事情并不总会如你所愿。
Things are not gonna always go your way.
你不可能明白所有事，但我们学会如何与神相交。
You're not gonna understand everything, but we learn how to commune with God.
大卫坐在主面前。
David sat before the Lord.
他默想。
He meditated.
是的
Yeah.
他是一种冥想。
He's a meditation.
上帝，我不知道。
God, I don't know.
让我安静下来。
Get me quiet.
是的
Yes.
让我专注，并且明确目标。
Get me focused and get me specific.
就让我慢下来吧。
Just get slow me down.
让我慢下来。
Slow me down.
再慢一点。
Slow it down a little bit.
放慢节奏，学会冥想，因为人们告诉我，我不知道如何聆听上帝的声音。
Slow it down, and learn how to meditate because people tell me, I don't know how to hear from God.
那你试过冥想吗？
Well, have you tried meditation?
冥想就是你专注地倾听上帝。
How meditation is how you pay attention to God.
是的。
Yeah.
祷告不仅仅是说：‘上帝啊。’
Is the prayer is not just, okay, God.
我在祷告，快说话吧。
I'm praying, talk.
而与此同时，上帝却在想：你能不能安静一会儿？
And meanwhile, God's like, could you just be quiet?
你能和我一起思考吗？
Could you think with me?
我知道这个问题对你来说很重要，
I know this issue over here is important to you,
但你能和我一起想想这个问题吗？
but can you think with me about this?
因为如果你能和我一起思考这个问题，我会给你
Because if you think with me about this, I'll give
一个解决这个问题的启示。
you a word that is a solution for that.
是的。
Yeah.
因为冥想是上帝真正与我一对一交谈的地方，不只是白纸上的黑字，而是上帝与我相交。
Because meditation is where God really speaks to me one on one, Not just black letters on white pages, but God communes with me.
他与我连接。
He connects with me.
你认为你在福音书中看到的是什么？
Why do you think you see in the gospels?
耶稣总是与天父保持亲密关系，而这种关系不仅是祷告，也是一种冥想。
Jesus always getting along with his father, and as much as it was prayer, there was meditation.
这是一种连接，一种相交。
There was this connection, this communion.
哇。
Wow.
就像是，好吧。
It's like, okay.
今天，我比任何人都更需要听到上帝的声音。
I need to hear from God today more than anybody else.
在我生命的每一天，最重要的关系都是我和上帝的关系。
Every day of my life, the most important relationship in my life is me and God.
这是最重要的。
It's number one.
它成为我所有其他关系的过滤器和见证者。
It becomes the filter and the and the witness to every other relationship that I have.
祷告是其中的一部分。
Prayer is part of it.
圣经学习也是其中的一部分，但我希望与神一同思考。
Bible study is part of it, but I want to think with God.
正如诗篇第一百一十九篇第二节所说，他说：我渴望以它为乐。
And as the Psalmist says in Psalm one nine one verse two, he says, I wanna delight in it.
我怎样才能以它为乐？我怎样才能爱上圣经？
How do I delight in the how do I fall in love with the Bible?
所以，就像他爱圣经一样，但对我来说，我连国王钦定版都过不去，我不知道。
So and so, like, he loves the Bible, but me, I can't get past the king's I don't know.
你可以找一本用蜡笔写成的圣经，或者任何你能找到的最简单的版本。
And you get a Bible written like in crayon, whatever you can find, it gets as simple as possible.
我怎样才能爱上圣经？
How do I fall in love with the Bible?
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