第二十四周 神的爱(下)
“基督的爱,……是过于人所能测度的。”(弗3:18-19)
诗:神圣大爱,无何能阻隔,竟使我归回;
大爱为我,成功赎罪祭,我们要赞美。
我所认识那位为我舍命的主,也就是我一生中,天天要与他来往的主,祂对待我的一切,都依据恩典原则。认识主耶稣就在这时,正用祂在十字架上替我受死那爱来怀念我,护庇我,这是何等宝贵,又是何等使我们得着力量。
祂的死打开了水闸,好叫爱的满潮可以涌流到罪人身上。
哥林多前书十一章廿六节中有两个字,世上没有其它二字合起来会发生这样重大的意义,这两个字就是主和死,那一位称为主的祂死了,在这里包含何等多的事情,哦,这是何等爱情!何等目的!何等效力!何等结果!
哦!主耶稣,有谁像你爱我?因你工夫,我成你工之果,亲你有路,在荣耀中相交;永蒙眷顾,我是你的珍宝,是你劳苦功效。
设若一个可怜人,看见他要和已经替他打败一切仇敌的那位得胜者相交,他的心是得到何等的安息!在还没有知道这一个事实时,他每天犯罪的记录好像要升到神的台前,全书黑暗,满纸罪证,每页所记都是罪、罪、罪;但如今这些黑字已被涂抹了,神羔羊的血,在其上写上血字──爱、爱、爱。
神的大爱是避难所,我们在其中行走,通过世上到处密布的网罗,人的攻击……通过越多,外面的纷乱越大,在祂面前的安息就越甜美。
我们应该作的一件大事,就是要亲近基督。不断的亲近祂;心灵就得安息;如此得享受爱的甘甜,我们的事奉就因住在祂里面而流露出来,且有事奉的印证。基督如何将父启示给人呢?“只有在父怀里的独生子将祂表明出来。”主在父怀中,一直作父爱的对象。这样,主享受了父的爱,就能将父表明出来。主是完全的,我们是常常失败的仆人。这一点的看见,成了惟一的路,使我们能经常有祂同在。并膏油的涂抹。
当一切风雨都成过去,主预备给我们的光辉,会毫无挡阻的显现。那光辉就是祂自己……。哦!那万福的大爱,就是主耶稣的爱,已经带领我们到那边永远与祂同在了。
TWENTY-FOURTH WEEK DIVINE AFFECTIONS (2)
“The love of Christ which passeth knowledge.” Ephesians 3:19
Love, that no suffering stayed,
We’ll praise, true love divine;
Love that for us atonement made,
Love that has made us Thine.
The Lord that I have known as laying down His life for me, is the same Lord I have to do with every day of my life, and all His dealings with me are on the same principles of grace. … How precious, how strengthening it is to know that Jesus is at this moment feeling and exercising the same love towards me as when He died on the cross for me.
His death opened the flood gates, in order that the full tide of love might flow over poor sinners.
(1 Cor. 11:26.) Impossible to find two words, the bringing together of which has so important a meaning, the death of the Lord. How many things are comprised in that He who is called the Lord had died! What love! what purposes! what efficacy! what results!
O Jesus, Lord, who loved me like to Thee?
Fruit of Thy work, with Thee, too, there to see
Thy glory, Lord, while endle