以賽亞書49:14-26

49:14 錫安說：耶和華離棄了我；主忘記了我。
49:15 婦人焉能忘記她吃奶的嬰孩，不憐恤她所生的兒子？即或有忘記的，我卻不忘記你。
49:16 看哪，我將你銘刻在我掌上；你的牆垣常在我眼前。
49:17 你的兒女必急速歸回；毀壞你的，使你荒廢的，必都離你出去，
49:18 你舉目向四方觀看；他們都聚集來到你這裡。耶和華說：我指著我的永生起誓：你必要以他們為妝飾佩戴，以他們為華帶束腰，像新婦一樣。
49:19 至於你荒廢淒涼之處，並你被毀壞之地，現今眾民居住必顯為太窄；吞滅你的必離你遙遠。
49:20 你必聽見喪子之後所生的兒女說：這地方我居住太窄，求你給我地方居住。
49:21 那時你心裡必說：我既喪子獨居，是被擄的，漂流在外。誰給我生這些？誰將這些養大呢？撇下我一人獨居的時候，這些在哪裡呢？
49:22 主耶和華如此說：我必向列國舉手，向萬民豎立大旗；他們必將你的眾子懷中抱來，將你的眾女肩上扛來。
49:23 列王必作你的養父；王后必作你的乳母。他們必將臉伏地，向你下拜，並舔你腳上的塵土。你便知道我是耶和華；等候我的必不致羞愧。
49:24 勇士搶去的豈能奪回？該擄掠的豈能解救嗎？
49:25 但耶和華如此說：就是勇士所擄掠的，也可以奪回；強暴人所搶的，也可以解救。與你相爭的，我必與他相爭；我要拯救你的兒女。
49:26 並且我必使那欺壓你的吃自己的肉，也要以自己的血喝醉，好像喝甜酒一樣。凡有血氣的必都知道我─耶和華是你的救主，是你的救贖主，是雅各的大能者。

14

But Zion said, “The Lord has forsaken me,

my Lord has forgotten me.”

15

Can a woman forget her nursing child,

or show no compassion for the child of her womb?

Even these may forget,

yet I will not forget you.

16

See, I have inscribed you on the palms of my hands;

your walls are continually before me.

17

Your builders outdo your destroyers,

and those who laid you waste go away from you.

18

Lift up your eyes all around and see;

they all gather, they come to you.

As I live, says the Lord,

you shall put all of them on like an ornament,

and like a bride you shall bind them on.

19

Surely your waste and your desolate places

and your devastated land—

surely now you will be too crowded for your inhabitants,

and those who swallowed you up will be far away.

20

The children born in the time of your bereavement

will yet say in your hearing:

“The place is too crowded for me;

make room for me to settle.”

21

Then you will say in your heart,

“Who has borne me these?

I was bereaved and barren,

exiled and put away—

so who has reared these?

I was left all alone—

where then have these come from?”

22

Thus says the Lord God:

I will soon lift up my hand to the nations,

and raise my signal to the peoples;

and they shall bring your sons in their bosom,

and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders.

23

Kings shall be your foster fathers,

and their queens your nursing mothers.

With their faces to the ground they shall bow down to you,

and lick the dust of your feet.

Then you will know that I am the Lord;

those who wait for me shall not be put to shame.

24

Can the prey be taken from the mighty,

or the captives of a tyrant be rescued?

25

But thus says the Lord:

Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken,

and the prey of the tyrant be rescued;

for I will contend with those who contend with you,

and I will save your children.

26

I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh,

and they shall be drunk with their own blood as with wine.

Then all flesh shall know

that I am the Lord your Savior,

and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.

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    在這樣沒有收入的日子，常常會感覺自己是不是被上帝所遺棄了？一直街那麼多的委託物件，忙著駐點，發DM，甚至帶看，但是離成交的路途似乎還很遙遠，就會感是到先知所說的：「錫安說：耶和華離棄了我；主忘記了我。」

    然而上帝給先知的答案是：「婦人焉能忘記她吃奶的嬰孩，不憐恤她所生的兒子？即或有忘記的，我卻不忘記你。看哪，我將你銘刻在我掌上；你的牆垣常在我眼前。」

    在耶穌基督未來到以前，上帝用被擄歸回來激勵猶大百姓，讓他們知道上帝沒有忘記他們。今日上帝用耶穌的復活與再來激勵我們，表示祂不會忘記我們的，即使我們眼前是多麼艱難與缺乏，上帝沒有忘記，上帝仍然記得我們，保守我們到底！

    雖然這段時間沒有牧會，做房仲沒有成交，完全沒有收入，但是上帝並沒有離棄我，仍然讓我有吃有喝有住有穿，就當感謝！但是，心中卻深深的盼望有轉機，讓我可以繼續服事上帝，牧養祂的羊群，求主保守與引導！