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经文: 你要发热心。（启示录三：19）
你若期盼见到悔改的灵魂：你若渴望听到“世上的国，成了我主和基督的国。”（启十一：15）；你若希望将冠冕戴在救主的头上，并看到祂的宝座被高举，那么你就要发热心。因教会发热心，世人才会悔改。随之而来的智慧、智识、忍耐和勇气，但是热心在此行列中居领导地位。不是靠你知识的深度或靠你才能的广泛，才能得胜。你的热心，才能成就伟大的功绩。而热心的能力，来自心中圣灵的不断工作。我们的灵命若萎缩，就不知道何为热心。倘若我们里面是刚强、活泼的，就会强烈渴望基督的国降临，看到祂的旨意行在地上如同行在天上。深切的感恩之情，将滋养基督徒的热心。若我们回顾自己从何处蒙拯救，就会找到太多的理由必须为上帝而活，必须为祂付上一切。对永恒未来之思想，也激励我们的热心。当以泪眼俯视地狱之火时，我们就不会瞌睡。当我们的眼睛以期待之凝视仰望天国的荣耀时，就无法不儆醒。待作之工太多，而时间短促，因此要发热心，将一切献给主使用。最后，藉着回想基督的榜样，能使热心得以坚固有力。祂以热心作为外袍。让我们也表现相同的热心，以证明我们是祂的门徒。
Evening, June 7
Scripture: “Be zealous.”(Revelation 3:19)
If you would see souls converted, if you would hear the cry that “the kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord;” if you would place crowns upon the head of the Saviour, and his throne lifted high, then be filled with zeal. For, under God, the way of the world’s conversion must be by the zeal of the church. Every grace shall do exploits, but this shall be first; prudence, knowledge, patience, and courage will follow in their places, but zeal must lead the van. It is not the extent of your knowledge, though that is useful; it is not the extent of your talent, though that is not to be despised; it is your zeal that shall do great exploits. This zeal is the fruit of the Holy Spirit: it draws its vital force from the continued operations of the Holy Ghost in the soul. If our inner life dwindles, if our heart beats slowly before God, we shall not know zeal; but if all be strong and vigorous within, then we cannot but feel a loving anxiety to see the kingdom of Christ come, and his will done on earth, even as it is in heaven. A deep sense of gratitude will nourish Christian zeal. Looking to the hole of the pit whence we were digged, we find abundant reason why we should spend and be spent for God. And zeal is also stimulated by the thought of the eternal future. It looks with tearful eyes down to the flames of hell, and it cannot slumber: it looks up with anxious gaze to the glories of heaven, and it cannot but bestir itself. It feels that time is short compared with the work to be done, and therefore it devotes all that it has to the cause of its Lord. And it is ever strengthened by the remembrance of Christ’s example. He was clothed with zeal as with a cloak. How swift the chariot-wheels of duty went with him! He knew no loitering by the way. Let us prove that we are his disciples by manifesting the same spirit of zeal.
