REST ｜ 安息

ENREST. Three references and uses. I. Recuperative rest, for mind and body: Mark 6:31. Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest a while. II. Soul-rest, in God: Ps. 37:7. Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for Him. God's law of rest is as binding upon our life as His law of work, and must be obeyed under penalty for disobedience. Ps. 94:13. That Thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity. Ps. 116:7. Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee. Ex. 33:14. My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest. Isa. 30:15. In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength. Isa. 57:20, 21. But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest . . . There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked. Zeph. 3:17. He will rest in His love, He will joy over thee with singing. Jer. 6:16. Ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. The chief passage is Matt. 11:28, 29. Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you, and learn of Me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. [Rest for the soul implies deliverance from every fear, the supply of every want, and the fulfillment of every desire. Entire surrender to Jesus is the secret of perfect rest. Giving up one's whole life to Him, for Him alone to rule and order it; taking His yoke and submitting to be led and taught, to learn of Him; abiding in Him, to be and to do only what He wills—these are the conditions of discipleship, in the fulfillment of which alone is found rest for the soul. Andrew Murray.] III. Abiding rest, in heaven—the rest that remaineth for the people of God: Heb. 4:9, 10. There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from His. Rev. 14:13. Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord . . . that they may rest from their labors; and their works do follow them. Micah 2:10. Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest.

BSBMatthew 11:28 Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.

中安息。三重所指与用法。一、恢复性的歇息，为着身心：马可福音 6:31 —— 你们来，同我暗暗地到旷野地方去歇一歇。二、灵魂在神里的安息：诗篇 37:7 —— 你当默然倚靠耶和华，耐性等候他。神所定『安息之律』对我们生命的约束力，与他所定『工作之律』一样；违背它同样要受罚。诗篇 94:13 —— 你使他在遭难的日子得享平安。116:7 —— 我的心哪，你要仍归安乐，因为耶和华用厚恩待你。出埃及记 33:14 —— 我必亲自和你同去，使你得安息。以赛亚书 30:15 —— 你们得救在乎归回安息，你们得力在乎平静安稳。57:20-21 —— 惟独恶人，好像翻腾的海不得平静……我的神说：恶人必不得平安。西番雅书 3:17 —— 他必因你欢欣喜乐，默然爱你，且因你喜乐而欢呼。耶利米书 6:16 —— 你们要访问古道，哪是善道，便行在其间，你们心里必得安息。最主要的一处是马太福音 11:28-29 —— 凡劳苦担重担的人，可以到我这里来，我就使你们得安息。我心里柔和谦卑，你们当负我的轭，学我的样式，这样，你们心里就必得享安息。〔灵魂的安息意味着脱离一切惧怕、一切缺乏得着供应、一切愿望得着成全。全然向耶稣降服，就是完全安息的秘诀。把自己整个生命交给他，单让他来管理、来安排；负他的轭，甘心被引导、被教导，学他的样式；住在他里面，只作他所愿意的、只成为他所愿意的——这些就是作门徒的条件，惟有在成全这些条件之中，灵魂才寻得安息。慕安得烈（Andrew Murray）〕三、天上永存的安息——那为神子民存留的安息：希伯来书 4:9-10 —— 这样看来，必另有一安息日的安息为神的子民存留。因为那进入安息的，乃是歇了自己的工，正如神歇了他的工一样。启示录 14:13 —— 在主里面而死的人有福了……他们息了自己的劳苦，作工的果效也随着他们。弥迦书 2:10 —— 你们起来去吧！这不是你们安息之所。

EN[Heb. 4:3. For we which have believed do enter into rest. We who, acknowledging that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and the Saviour of the world, let our hearts go out to Him in trust, and our wills bow down before Him in obedience and submission, do thereby enter into rest. Trust brings rest; for the trust which grasps Jesus Christ—not only intellectually, but with the reliance of the whole nature upon Him to do for me that which my understanding believes He will do—that trust brings rest, because it sweeps away, as the north wind does the banded clouds on the horizon, the deepest causes of unrest. These are our perverted relation to God, and the alienation of our hearts from Him. There is no rest deep as life which does not flow from rejoicing confidence in Christ's great sacrifice, by which the innermost source of conflict and disturbance in our souls has been dealt with. Trust brings rest, because it casts all our burdens on another: every act of reliance, though it does not deliver from responsibility, delivers from anxiety. Trust brings repose, because it effects our submission; and submission is the mother of peace. There is no other consolation worth naming for our sorrows except the consolation that comes from submission. Trust brings repose, because it leads to satisfied desires. We are restless because each object that we pursue yields but a partial satisfaction, and because all taken together are inadequate to our needs. There is but one Person who can fill the heart, the mind, the will, and satisfy our whole nature. No accumulation of things, be they ever so precious—whether the gross material things of earthly possession and sensuous delight, or the higher and more refined satisfactions of the intellect—can ever satisfy the heart; and no endless series of finite persons is sufficient for the wants of any one of the series, who, finite as he is, yet needs an infinite satisfaction. "My soul thirsteth for God." It is in God, and in God only, that we can find repose.]

BSBPsalm 42:2 My soul thirsts for God, the living God. When shall I come and appear in God’s presence?

中〔希伯来书 4:3 —— 但我们已经相信的人得以进入那安息。我们既承认耶稣基督是神的儿子、是世人的救主，就让自己的心以信靠向他而去，让自己的意志在顺服与降伏中向他俯首——如此便进入了安息。信靠带来安息；因为那抓住耶稣基督的信靠——不只是理智上的抓住，而是整个本性倚靠他，指望他为我成就我的理智所信他必成就的事——那样的信靠带来安息，因为它把不安最深的根源一扫而空，正如北风扫尽天边成排的云。这些根源就是：我们与神扭曲了的关系，以及我们的心与他的疏离。凡不是从『因基督伟大的献祭而欢喜笃信』流出的安息，就没有一种能深如生命本身——因为惟有那献祭，处理了我们灵魂里冲突与骚动最内在的源头。信靠带来安息，因为它把我们一切的重担卸给另一位：每一次倚靠的举动，虽不能免去我们的责任，却能免去我们的焦虑。信靠带来安宁，因为它促成我们的降伏；而降伏是平安之母。对我们的忧伤，除了从降伏而来的安慰之外，再没有别的安慰值得一提。信靠带来安宁，因为它使愿望得着满足。我们之所以不得安宁，是因为我们所追求的每一个对象都只给出部分的满足，而且把它们全加起来也不足以应付我们的需要。惟有一位能充满人的心、意、志，能满足我们整个本性。无论积攒多少东西，无论它们何等宝贵——无论是地上产业与感官享乐这类粗重的物质之物，还是理智上更高更精致的满足——都绝不能满足人心；任何无穷无尽的有限位格的系列，也不足以应付这系列中任何一位的需求——因为他虽是有限的，所需要的却是无限的满足。『我的心渴想神。』惟有在神里面，也惟独在神里面，我们才能寻得安宁。〕

EN[Faith brings rest—yes; but the main characteristic of Christian faith is that it is an active principle, which sets all the wheels of holy life in more vigorous motion, and breathes an intenser, as well as a calmer and more reposeful, activity into the whole man. The work of faith is quite as important as the rest of faith. It works by love; and the very repose that it brings ought to make us more strenuous in our toil. We are able to cast ourselves—without anxiety about ourselves, without distraction of our inner nature, and with no weakening of power in consequence of the consciousness of sin—into the tasks which devolve upon us, and so to do them with our might. The river withdrawn from all divided channels is gathered into the one bed, that it may flow with power and scour before it all impurities; so the man who is delivered from restlessness is quickened for work, and even "in his very motion there is rest." It is possible to blend together, in secret, sweet, indissoluble union, these two partial antitheses, and in the midst of the most strenuous effort to have a central calm—like the eye of the storm, which whirls in its wild circles round a center-point of perfect repose. It is possible, at one and the same time, to be dwelling in the secret place of the Most High, feeding our souls with the calm that broods there, and to be up to the ears in business, with our hands full of pressing duties. The same faith which ushers us into the quiet presence of God in the center of the soul pushes us into the forefront of the battle to fight, and into the world's busy workshop to labor. Christian rest, then, is a rest throbbing with activity; and, further, the activity which is based on faith will deepen repose, and not interrupt it. Jesus Christ distinguished between the two stages of the tranquillity realized by His true disciples, for He said, "Come unto Me . . . and I will give you rest"—the rest which comes by approach to Him in faith, from the beginning of the approach, resulting from the taking away of the deepest cause of unrest. Then there is a second stage of the disciples' action and consequent peace: "Take My yoke upon you . . . and ye shall find rest"—not "I will give," this time, but "ye shall find," in the very act of taking the yoke upon your necks. The activity that ensues from faith deepens the rest of faith. And the repose of faith experienced here is but the germ of that eternal Sabbath-day to which we look forward: the present gift bears in all its lineaments a prophecy of its own completion, and the repose of a Christian heart in the midst of life's work and worry is the best anticipation and picture of heaven, because it is the beginning of the rest of heaven. That future, however it may differ from this present, is in essence the same: yonder, as here, we become partakers of rest through faith; there, as here, it is trust that brings rest. No change of bodily environment, no transference of the man into new conditions and a new world, will bring repose, unless there is in him a trust which grasps Jesus Christ. Faith is eternal, and is eternally the minister of rest. Heaven is the perfecting of the highest and purest moments of Christian experience. Alexander Maclaren.]

BSBHebrews 4:9 There remains, then, a Sabbath rest for the people of God.

中〔信心带来安息——不错；但基督徒信心的主要特征在于：它是一条能动的原理，它使圣洁生命的一切轮子转动得更有力，并把一种更炽烈、同时也更平静更安宁的活力吹进整个人里面。信心之『工』与信心之『息』同等重要。信心是借着爱运作的；而它所带来的安宁，正应当使我们在劳作中更加奋力。我们能够把自己投入分内的工作，并尽力去做——不为自己焦虑，内里的本性不受分扯，也不因罪的意识而使力量受损。江河若从各条分岔的水道收回来，汇入一道河床，就能有力地奔流，把一切污秽都冲刷在前；照样，人若脱离了焦躁不安，就为工作而得着振奋，甚至『在他的奔忙之中就有安息』。要把这两个看似对立的侧面，在隐秘、甘美、不可分割的联合中调和为一，是可能的：在最奋力的努力之中仍有一种居中的宁静——正如风暴之眼，狂乱的旋圈绕着一个完全安宁的中心点旋转。人完全可能同时既住在至高者的隐密处，以那里安息的宁静喂养自己的灵魂，又忙得没顶、双手满是紧迫的职责。那把我们引进灵魂中心、进入神安静同在的信心，正是那把我们推向战场前沿去争战、推进世界忙碌工场去劳作的信心。所以基督徒的安息，是一种搏动着活力的安息；而且，建立在信心上的活动会加深安宁，而不会打断安宁。耶稣基督分别指出了他真门徒所经历之宁静的两个阶段，因为他说：『到我这里来……我就使你们得安息』——这安息是藉着以信心来就近他而得的，从就近的那一刻起便有，是因那不安最深的根源被除去而来的。随后还有门徒行动与由之而来之平安的第二阶段：『你们当负我的轭……这样，你们心里就必得享安息』——这一次不说『我要赐给』，而说『你们必寻得』，就在你们把轭套上自己颈项的那个行动之中寻得。由信心生出的活动，会加深信心的安息。而今生所经历之信心的安宁，不过是我们所盼望的那永恒安息日的种芽：眼下所得的这份恩赐，其一切轮廓中都带着自身臻于完满的预言；而基督徒的心在人生劳碌与烦扰之中的安宁，正是对天堂最好的预尝与写照——因为它就是天上安息的开端。那将来的安息，无论与现今如何不同，本质上是同一回事：在那里，如同在这里，我们都是藉信心得以有分于安息；在那里，如同在这里，带来安息的都是信靠。身体环境的更换，人被迁入新的境况与新的世界，都不能带来安宁——除非他里面有一种抓住耶稣基督的信靠。信心是永恒的，也永远是安息的执事。天堂，就是基督徒经历中那些最高最纯之片刻的完全化。麦克拉伦（Alexander Maclaren）〕