诗一一九48　　我要向你的诫命举手，这些诫命是我所爱的；我也要默想你的律例。

　　147~148　　我趁天未亮呼求；我仰望了你的言语。我趁夜更未换，将眼睁开，为要默想你的话语。

　　向神的话举手，指明我们热诚欢乐地接受它，并对它说，阿们（尼八5~6）（圣经恢复本，诗一一九48注1）。

　　（在诗篇一百一十九篇一百四十七节，）我们看见诗人天未亮就起来呼求，并仰望了神的言语。 一百四十八节（指明），…诗人夜间醒来，为要默想神的话语。默想神的话比仅仅思想神的话所含的意义更丰富。我们默想神的话，乃是借着与神谈话，敬拜祂，享受祂，从祂领受恩典，并在主面前与自己交谈（出埃及记生命读经，七七八页）。

　　Psa. 119:48 …I will lift up my hand to Your commandments, which I love; and I will muse upon Your statutes.

　　147-148 I anticipated the dawn and cried out; I hoped in Your words. My eyes anticipated the night watches, that I might muse upon Your word.

　　To lift up our hand unto the word of God is to indicate that we receive it warmly and gladly and that we say Amen to it (Neh. 8:5-6). (Psa. 119:48, footnote 1)

　　[In Psalm 119:147] we see that the psalmist rose up before dawn, cried out, and hoped in God’s word. Verse 148 goes on to…[indicate that] the psalmist woke up during the night to muse upon God’s word. Musing upon the Word involves more than just meditating on it. We muse upon the Word by talking to God, worshipping Him, enjoying Him, receiving grace from Him, and conversing with ourselves in the Lord’s presence. (Life-study of Exodus, p. 671)

　　默想神的话就是享受神的话作祂的呼出，这乃是在这话里接触神，与祂交通，敬拜祂，借着这话并用这话向祂祷告。我们这样默想神的话，就要被神注入，将祂吸入我们里面，并得着属灵的滋养。

　　诗人等候主的话，仰望它，并趁天未亮起来向主呼求，述说他需要主的话。然后他默想这话，敬拜主，向祂祷告，并得着祂的供应。他也对自己说话，并用神的话教导自己。这一切都是默想神话语的一部分（出埃及记生命读经，七七七至七七九页）。

　　关于默想圣经，…慕勒…说，“…我每天必须注意的最大最先要作的事，就是要在主里面喜乐。第一件事所该注意的，并不在于我事奉主多少，我如何荣耀主，而是在于我里面怎样得着喜乐，我里面的人怎样得着滋养”（倪柝声文集第三辑第二册，一七三页）。

　　当我们真是用灵来接触主的话，并且一面读还一面和主不断交通的时候，我们的灵里必定会一直感觉到一种沐浴的光景，好像全人都浸在圣经的话语里洗澡一样，非常的清凉，舒畅而轻快。我们在交通里读经的时候，必须要有这种感觉。…你在神话语里经过的时候，总该象一个洗澡的人从水里浸过一样。…（你）越读，里头越新鲜，…（这）新鲜…好像是清晨的甘露一样。…你也不知道是受了什么感动，或者蒙了什么光照，得了什么教导，都不知道，但总觉得很滋润，一节一节地读，一节一节地有滋润，里面是甜甜美美的。还有，你会觉得有供应，越读里头越满足，越读里头越饱满，越有能力，越刚强。在这里当然也会有亮光。

　　就是这样，早晨你读了三十分钟的圣经，什么都没有明白，但是你能说你在神的话语里洗了一个澡。虽然没有明白，但是你读过圣经之后，灵里面是暖煦煦的，也不是太热，也不是太烫，也不是太烧，就是这样一种说不出的温暖。同时还感觉新鲜，还感觉滋润，还感觉有供应，有饱足。这是一个很好的读经。…这正如你吃了一顿丰美的早餐一样，吃的是什么可能都记不太清楚了，但是吃过之后，总觉得里面充实了，有力量了，…有一种说不出的光景。你越这样来读主的话语，和主交通，就越知道读经是多实际的一件事，也是多甜美的一件事！（初信课程第二十四课，一○至一一页。）

　　参读：诗篇生命读经，第四十篇；初信造就，第九、十一篇；初信课程，第二十四课。

　　To muse upon the Word of God is to enjoy His Word as His breath. It is to contact God in the Word and to have fellowship with Him, to worship Him, and to pray to Him through and with the Word. By musing upon the Word of God in this way, we shall be infused by God, breathe Him into us, and receive spiritual nourishment.

　　The psalmist waited for the Lord’s word, hoped in it, and arose before dawn to cry out to the Lord that he needed His word. Then he mused upon the Word, worshipping the Lord, praying to Him, and receiving His supply. He also spoke to himself and instructed himself with the Word of God. All this is part of musing upon the Word of God. (Life-study of Exodus, pp. 671-672)

　　Concerning meditating [musing] on the Word,…George Muller…said,…“The first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day was, to have my soul happy in the Lord. The first thing to be concerned about was not how much I might serve the Lord, how I might glorify the Lord; but how I might get my soul into a happy state, and how my inner man might be nourished.” (CWWN, vol. 48, “Messages for Building Up New Believers (1),” p. 138)

　　When we touch the Lord’s Word with our spirit and remain in continual fellowship with Him, our spirit should have a feeling of being bathed, as if our whole being were taking a bath in the Bible. This is refreshing, comfortable, and joyful. We should have this kind of feeling when we fellowship with God through reading the Word….When we pass through God’s word, we should be like a person who has taken a bath, a person who has been soaked in water. The more we read, the more we should be refreshed….This freshness…is like the freshness of the morning dew….We may not know what has touched us, what has enlightened us, or what we have learned, but we will be moistened. As we read verse by verse, we become moist, and we will be full of an inward sweetness. In addition, we will sense a supply. The more we read, the more we will be inwardly satisfied, filled, empowered, and strengthened. There will also be light.

　　This is the way we should read the Bible for thirty minutes in the morning. Although we may not understand anything, we will take a bath in God’s Word and feel warm in our spirit. We will not have the sense of being hot, scorched, or burned, but we will have an indescribably warm feeling and be refreshed, moistened, supplied, and satisfied. This is good Bible reading. This can be compared to eating a rich breakfast. We may not remember exactly what we ate, but we will feel full and energized….This is an indescribable feeling. The more we read the Lord’s Word and fellowship with Him in this way, the more we will know how real and sweet it is to read the Bible. (CWWL, 1959, vol. 3, “Lessons for New Believers,” pp. 323-324)

　　Further Reading: Life-study of the Psalms, msg. 40; CWWN, vol. 48, “Messages for Building Up New Believers (1),” chs. 9,11; CWWL, 1959, vol. 3, “Lessons for New Believers,” lsn. 24