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哥林多前书：10：1-5: 1弟兄们，我不愿意你们不晓得，我们的祖宗从前都在云下，都从海中经过，2都在云里、海里受洗归了摩西，3并且都吃了一样的灵食，4也都喝了一样的灵水；所喝的是出于随着他们的灵磐石，那磐石就是基督。5但他们中间多半是神不喜欢的人．所以在旷野倒毙。
保罗在这一章警告了哥林多信徒，不要拒绝上帝在耶稣里赐给他们的恩典，保罗使用的是旧约时代以色列百姓负面的例子。上帝向他们展现了丰盛的怜悯，但他们中的很多人却因为不信，倒毙在路上。
但在前几节经文里，让我感到印象最深刻的是保罗说，伴随他们的属灵磐石是基督。拯救旧约时代百姓的救主，和拯救我们的救主是同一位，就是基督。只是时间不同而已。他们是靠着神应许给他们的救主得救的（当时还没有来），而我们是靠着神差来的救主得救的（已经来到）。
其次，在旧约时代陪伴以色列百姓的救主上帝，和今日陪伴我们的上帝是同一位。他一直和我们同在，陪伴我们穿越这一生去往天国的旅途。无论时光美好或糟糕，他都和我们同在。在我们的人生旅途上，他按他认为合适的方式供应我们，从不给我们超过我们所能承受的，也从不给我们少于我们所需要的。他的怜悯每天早晨都是新的，他在他所做的一切事情上都是信实的。当你阅读旧约以色列百姓的故事时，这样的信息是响亮的、清晰的。
祷告：主耶稣，请你按照你的应许每天都和我们同在，让我们的心中充满你的良善和怜悯。让我们的心远离不满足、不快乐，不被这个世界的诱惑所吸引。我们如此祷告是奉你的名。阿们。
1 Corinthians 10: For I do not want you to be ignorant of the fact, brothers and sisters, that our ancestors were all under the cloud and that they all passed through the sea. 2 They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea. 3 They all ate the same spiritual food 4 and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ. 5 Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them; their bodies were scattered in the wilderness. (EHV)
Paul is going to warn the Corinthians in this chapter about rejecting the grace that God had given to them in Jesus by holding out to them the negative example of the people of Israel in the Old Testament. God showed his abundant mercy to them, but many of them fell along the way because of their unbelief.
But what strikes me most about these first verses is how Paul says that the spiritual rock which accompanied them was Christ. The people of the Old Testament were saved by the same Savior God that we are saved by, namely, Christ. It was only a matter of perspective in time. They were saved by the Savior that God promised to bring them, and we are saved by the Savior that God HAS sent us.
Secondly, the Savior God who accompanied the children of Israel in the Old Testament is the same God who accompanies us today. He is always with us through all of our earthly pilgrimage. He is with us when times are good and when they are not so good. He provides for us on our journey as he sees fit, never giving us more than we can handle or less than we need. His mercies are new to us every morning, and he is faithful in all that he does. This is the message that comes through loud and clear when you read the story of God’s people through the Old Testament.
Prayer: Lord Jesus, be with us each day according to your promise, and fill our hearts with an awareness of your goodness and mercy. Keep our hearts from being unhappy or discontent or drawn away by the temptations of this world. We pray this in your name. Amen.