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希伯来书：10:36-39：36你们必须忍耐，使你们行完了神的旨意，就可以得着所应许的。37因为还有一点点时候，“那要来的就来，并不迟延。38只是义人必因信得生；〔义人有古卷作我的义人〕他若退后，我心里就不喜欢他。”39我们却不是退后入沉沦的那等人，乃是有信心以致灵魂得救的人。
“义人必因信得生”，作者在这里引用了哈巴谷书的旧约圣经希腊文译本（七十士译本，约主前200年）。而希伯来语圣经中这节经文很有意思。这句话可以翻译成“义人藉着信心而活”，或者翻译成“义人的生活是藉着信心。”前面一句强调那些相信的人将得到永恒的生命。后面一句强调那些相信的人会因为自己的信心活出生命。我想圣灵在这里希望我们用这两种方式来理解这句经文。
如果两个意思你都明白，希伯来书上面这些经文就得到了完美诠释。我们藉着信心而活，这意味着我们相信我们是因为信心得救，我们等候耶稣再来。而这会影响到我们生活的方方面面。我们没有寄希望于这个世界，或是这世上的一切。我们不为自己活着。我们为耶稣、为我们的邻舍活着。
我的哥哥一次在便利店里排队买东西。当时的彩票金额高达一亿美金。当店员问他是否愿意买张彩票的时候，他拒绝了。店员问他，“你就不想有个机会赢得那些钱吗？” 他回答说，“不，我对自己的现状很满意”。店员又问道：“你在哪里生活？”
其实她更应该问的是“为什么？”我们在哪里生活不重要，重要的是我们为什么而活。我们因为相信耶稣而活，我们期待他再来，而这能改变一切。
祷告：主耶稣，你属于我，我也属于你！你救赎了我，我得到的不仅是在世上的日子，更是永恒，可以永远活在你的国度之下。 我迫不及待地等候那一天的到来，从此可以和你一同在你的荣耀里。至于我在地上的日子，请让我每一天都不是为自己而是为你而活。请让我远离世上的忧虑，这样我就不会退缩。我这样祈求是奉耶稣的名。阿们。
Hebrews 10: 36 You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised. 37 For, “In just a little while, he who is coming will come and will not delay.” 38 And, “But my righteous one will live by faith. And I take no pleasure in the one who shrinks back.” 39 But we do not belong to those who shrink back and are destroyed, but to those who have faith and are saved.
The writer quotes from Habakkuk from the Septuagint translation (Greek, 200 B.C.). The Hebrew is interesting. It could be translated, “The righteous by faith will live,” or “The righteous will live by faith.” The first emphasizes that those who believe will live eternally. The second emphasizes that those who believe will live their lives according to that faith. I think that God the Holy Spirit intended for us to understand this verse in both ways.
If you understand it in both ways, then the words from Hebrews above makes perfect sense. We live by faith, which means we believe we are saved by faith and we wait for Jesus to come again. That affects everything in our life. We don’t put our hope in this world or in the things of this world. We don’t live for ourselves. We live for Jesus and for our neighbor.
My brother once stood in line at a convenience store when the lottery was in the hundreds of millions. When asked if he wanted to buy a ticket, he declined. “Don’t you want to have a chance to win all that money?” she asked. “No,” he replied, “I am happy just the way I am.” And she said, “Where do you live?”
What she should have asked is, “Why?” It’s not where we live but why we live. We live by faith in Jesus, and we wait for him to come again! That changes everything!
Prayer: Lord Jesus, you are mine and I am yours! You have redeemed me for time and for eternity to live under you in your kingdom. I cannot wait until that day comes when I am with you in glory! But for the time of my life, let me live each day, not for myself, but for you. Keep me from the anxieties of this life so that I do not shrink back. I ask this in your name. Amen.