第四十二篇

1 神啊，我的心切慕你，如鹿切慕溪水。
2 我的心渴想神，就是永生神；我幾時得朝見神呢？
3 我晝夜以眼淚當飲食，人不住地對我說：“你的神在哪裡呢？”
4 我從前與眾人同往，用歡呼稱讚的聲音領他們到神的殿裡，大家
守節。我追想這些事，我的心極其悲傷。
5 我的心哪，你為何憂悶？為何在我裡面煩躁？應當仰望神，因他
笑臉幫助我，我還要稱讚他。

默想：
1.請參考第1頁有關禱讀操練方式——“誦讀聖言”，試著將這
個方式用上面所載每日的260 靈修上。

2.安靜——閱讀/聆聽——默想——禱告——默觀/安歇主懷

3.在閱讀默想今天的經文時，有哪個字或詞句特別觸動你的？

4.就像溪裡的水可以供養鹿的肉身生命，神本身也能供應人的屬
靈生命（參，約4：14）。詩人在此處描述他對神的渴慕，而
這種對活在在神面前的渴想切慕，正是我們與神同在的生命最
重要的核心。

5.當你讀到這個字或詞句時，你有什麼感受？這與你的現況有什
麼關連 沒有？神想要你做什麼？

禱告與筆錄：
繼續安靜在神面前，與神對話，並聆聽祂對我說的話。將心中的思
想（心得），或是與神的禱告，記錄在「靈程筆記簿」上面。

Psalms 42

1 As the deer pants for streams of water,
so my soul pants for you, my God.
2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.
When can I go and meet with God?
3 My tears have been my food day and night,
while people say to me all day long,
“Where is your God?”
4 These things I remember as I pour out my soul:
how I used to go to the house of God
under the protection of the Mighty One
with shouts of joy and praise among the festive throng.
5 Why, my soul, are you downcast?
Why so disturbed within me?
Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him,
my Savior and my God.

Meditation:
1. Refer to page 1 on Lectio Divina and try to implement it as you read
through the above passage.

2. Silence – Read/Listen – Meditate – Pray – Contemplate

3. What is the word or phrase that touches you today as you read and
meditate on this passage?

4. As water from a brook sustains a deer physically, so God himself
sustains people spiritually (cf. John 4:14). The psalmist was thirsty
for God. The images of thirst and eagerness to be in God’s presence
are the essence of our life with God.

5. What is your emotion as you read this word or phrase? Do you
share the emotion expressed in the psalm? How is that related to
your current situation? What is God saying to you? What is your
response?

Prayer & Journaling:
Stay with God for a little longer. Continue to converse with God and listen
to what he wants to tell me. Then write down any thought and/or prayer
in the 2012 “Spiritual Journal” book.