【双语灵修】安息日：你要听SABBATH: LISTEN

申命记 6:4-9

“以色列啊，你要听！耶和华我们神是独一的主。 你要尽心、尽性、尽力爱耶和华你的神。 我今日所吩咐你的话都要记在心上， 也要殷勤教训你的儿女。无论你坐在家里、行在路上，躺下、起来，都要谈论。 也要系在手上为记号，戴在额上为经文。 又要写在你房屋的门框上，并你的城门上。

九月二十一日

安息日：你要听

“以色列啊！你要听： 耶和华我们神是独一的主。你要 … 爱耶和华你的神。” - 申 6:4, 5

我念中学时在一间杂货店工作。那个时候，货物的价钱是印在贴纸上的，收银员要把价钱输入收银机。有时货物的价钱贴纸丢了，收银员便找人去确认货物的价钱，而我的职责便是去找那些货物的价钱。

在繁忙的周六，有很多顾客和收银员，所以有时收银员要多次叫我的名字，我才能听见。我以为我的听觉有毛病，便去找耳科医生，他说我的听觉没有问题，问题是我自己。那个经历让我看到，我是多么容易便对重要的信息充耳不闻的。

今天是安息日和敬拜主的日子，在今天，我们暂时停下来、安静自己、去聆听神那温柔和赐生命的声音。

今天申命记的经文，在希伯来语被称为“示玛”，是神子民会每天都诵念数次的经文。留意它是以“以色列啊！你要听 ……”开始的，它提醒我们要留意我们可能忽略了的事。

今天，让我们打开耳朵去听，神是我们的神、是爱我们的独一神的信息，惟愿我们再次听到，那叫我们用整个人去爱神的邀请。

祷告

主啊，神啊，我很容易便对祢的声音充耳不闻。求祢调校我整个生命，去留心聆听祢慈爱的声音，又求祢今天对我说话。阿们。

Deuteronomy 6:4-9

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21

SABBATH: LISTEN

Hear, O Israel: the LORD our God, the LORD is one. Love the LORD your God. . . . —Deuteronomy 6:4-5

I worked in a grocery store when I was in high school. Back then, the prices of products were on stickers, and a cashier had to key the numbers in. Sometimes the sticker would be missing, and the cashier would call for a price check. It was part of my job to run to the shelf where the product came from and find the price.

On busy Saturdays with lots of customers and cashiers, it often happened that a cashier would call my name several times before I would hear it. I thought something was wrong with my hearing. So I went to an ear doctor and discovered that my hearing was fine. The problem was not with my ears; it was me. That experience showed me how easily I could tune out important messages.

Today is the day for Sabbath rest and worship. It is a day to pause, quiet ourselves, and listen for God’s gentle, life-giving voice.

Today’s passage from Deuteronomy 6, called the “Shema” in Hebrew, was often recited by God’s people several times a day. Notice how it begins: “Hear, O Israel. . . .” This can be a helpful reminder to pay attention to what we may have tuned out.

Let’s open our ears today to the message that God is our God, the one true God, who loves us. And may we hear the invitation again to love God with our whole being.

Lord, God, it’s easy for me to grow inattentive to your voice. Tune my entire life to your voice of love and speak to me today, I pray. Amen.