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第二十八周 爱

“爱是从神来的。”（约壹4:7）

诗：神的本性──纯洁神圣的爱，
我们的心，现蒙爱的摊派。

当我们的心受爱的激励时人类就真的是我们舍己的对象；但神是我们奉献自己的对象（弗5:2）。

直接的事奉，虽然是一件最喜乐的事，但也是一件严肃的事，心中虽然有愿作的倾向，但这未必就是蒙召的明证。我相信蒙召最可靠的表记乃是对人灵魂有热切的爱，加上里头的负担，而把这事带到基督面前交通……并不是因为有说话欲，乃是因着人们的灵魂，并为圣徒得蒙建造，只有这样，才是推动事奉的真正源头。若能用爱与良善，输送给坠落最深的人，使他们安心信靠。那么我们是需要倾吐多少心坎蕴藏的东西呢？……

许多人内心受着道德声音的控告与折磨，于是他们就要借着娱乐来使他们沉迷颠倒。神圣的爱，不但能满足人的需要，更能叫人敞开陈言。

“住在爱里面的，就是住在神里面。”我热切的请求你们维持这爱的灵，就是神的同在。罪的性质是分散的，而神是联合的，因为神就是爱，爱能医治一切事物，而一切都要在基督里同归于一。……你们要行在爱中，就必行在能力里，也必行在神的荣耀中。

我能叫人迎接一切的试炼，若有人要向祂唾面，祂也能处之泰然，因祂住在爱里，爱心从来不受环境的支配，乃是超越一切环境之上。

真正的爱，是导往圣洁的正路。

“向…圣徒的爱心”，是使徒保罗所写祝福之话里的一部分；这爱甚至是和智力有关的，因为有了这一个，才“能以和众对徒一同明白”。所有圣徒都是在基督心里，假若他们不在我们心里，基督在我们里面也没有地位，这种情况，就是“己”把主挤出去了。

干净无己的爱心，能够关切所有临到别人身上的事，并且明白这些事会如何影响他们。

即使在事奉中会常经试炼，但爱心必不会因事奉而疲倦，事实上在事奉方面是常有试炼的，但在工作过程中，总是不时获致慰勉，“所以我为选民凡事忍耐。”

你若能把爱献给神，也就能把神带到爱的事上，就外表看中是与人发生关系，但一切都是因着神和向着神而去；甚至作到一个地步，越爱别人越得不到别人的爱时，还坚持下去，流露此爱。哦！这样的人有多少呢？请记得，这样就是为神而作。

圣灵的果子是仁爱、喜乐、和平、忍耐、良善等等。请注意，这里果子中为首的，乃是仁爱、喜乐、和平。圣圣灵在我们里面定规会产生这些，在人面前能实际的彰显基督。但是那些内在的，自己向着神的果子乃是里头必须先有的条件，然后才能产生其余的果子。

TWENTY-EIGHTH WEEK LOVE

“Love is of God.” 1 John 4:7

God’s nature, love without alloy,
Our hearts are given e’en now to share.

When love leads us, men are indeed those for whom we give ourselves; but God, He to whom we offer ourselves. (Eph. 5:2.)

It is a serious though a most happy thing to undertake direct service. … The mere fact of an inclination does not shew that we are called to it. I believe the surest sign is earnest love to souls, and intercourse through the need of the heart with Christ about it. … It is not the desire to speak, but for souls and the building up of saints which is the real moving spring of service.

How many needs, hidden even in the most degraded souls, would confess themselves … if a love, a goodness, which could give them confidence were presented to them. … How many souls are whirling in pleasure, in order to silence the moral griefs which torment them. Divine love not only answers needs, it makes them speak.

“He that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God.”… I beseech you … earnestly to maintain this spirit of love which is the presence of God. … For sin is separating, and God is uniting, for He is love; and this will be the healing of all things, for they are to be gathered into one in Christ. … Walk then in love … and you will walk in power, and in the glory of God.

I dread narrowness of heart more than anything for the church of Christ.

Love enables a man to meet all trials. Should one spit in his face, this makes no difference, for love abides; because it never draws its strength from circumstances, but rides above all circumstances.

Love … is the true means of holiness, when it is real.

“Love to all the saints” is an element of the blessing spoken of by the apostle, and even as to intelligence—“able to comprehend with all saints”; because they are in Christ’s heart, and if not in ours, He has not His place, and self has so far excluded Him.

Love, free from self, can and does think of all that concerns others and understands what will affect them.

Love does not grow weary of serving, though service may be often in trial … indeed, save with rare encouragement, always in the general run of it, is. “Therefore I endure all things for the elect’s sake.”

How few so present their charity to God, and bring God into their charity, exercising it for and towards Him, though in behalf of man, so that they persevere nothing the less in its exercise, though the more they love the less they be loved! it is for God’s sake.

The fruits of the Spirit are love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, &c. … Remark that the first of these fruits are love, joy, peace. The Spirit will surely produce those practical fruits which manifest the life of Christ in the sight of men, but the inward fruits, the fruits Godward, come first, the condition of soul needful for producing the others.

第二十七周 忧患之子

“他……多受痛苦，常经忧患。”（赛53:3）

诗：主你奇妙的故事，我正低头在默思；
今天荣耀当年苦，爱且孤单的道路；
往事历历满鼓舞，时时刻刻感深处。
你曾圣别客此地，万恶人间显公义；
因爱来作忧患子，谁能说尽你恩慈？

“耶稣因走路困乏，就坐在井旁。”哦，试想主自己，地上君王不认识祂，可是荣耀的主，正在困倦的坐在井旁。因着口渴，似乎向这世界要一口水──这世界就是祂所造，但不认识祂。

祂出尽代价，把神的爱显在人间。

我爱慕祂那样的爱，使祂为我成为罪。在这件事上，祂的大爱受了十足的试炼，也就是这爱带领祂经过一切。在这里给我们看见人到底是怎样的，事实虽然顶可怕，却能深刻的启迪我们。若我受审判，我对我的朋友寄予什么希望呢？最少他们不会离弃我罢。但他们都离开祂跑了！对于审判官呢？我必定盼望他保护无事，但彼拉多竟洗手自示清白，把祂交给百姓！对于祭司我所望为何？他们应为无知的人代求，为无告的人代方，但他们却鼓动百姓，喊着说：“除掉祂，除掉祂！”每一个人都没有公义，但这一位是义者，祂曾在神的爱中，经过了这一切的试炼！

祂的忧患有如深渊，我们从边缘一看下去，真是不寒而懔！对祂不禁肃然起敬……。一看祂受苦之深，恩典就在眼前显得高超绝俗。这就使人觉悟说，只有一位约对完全圣洁的“人”，才能当得起那样的深忧巨患。

祂指望有人同情，但找不着一个；指望有人安慰，也寻不见一人……。祂受尽人间痛苦忧患，最厉害的考验与磨炼，泰然独处，孤单交行，惊醒祷告……没有人与他表同情；如果有，也只是一个伯大尼的马利亚，此外再没有同情祂的人。但祂自己，却从来没有不同情任何需要祂的人。

祂本是在父怀中的爱子，但祂被离弃，像一个普通的罪人，对于这一点，我们没有一个能测度祂魂中的伤痛。

祂对于圣洁的认识何其高，所以祂在神面前成为罪的感觉也何其痛苦；祂对于神的认识其深，所以祂感觉神的离弃也何其忧伤！

祂是复活，祂是生命。祂是操纵生死的主，竟然在世界为我们踏进死门！祂买我们的代价太大，怎能把我们丢弃。

哦，面貌憔悴的主！曾因赐恩受损污；
我们欢乐等主来，细瞻创痕献敬拜。
面面相对亲近主，更表全心的爱慕！
欣逢再度降临时，所有忧伤成往事。

TWENTY-SEVENTH WEEK THE MAN OF SORROWS

“A man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.” Isaiah 53:3

O Lord! Thy wondrous story
My inmost soul doth move;
I ponder o’er Thy glory­—
Thy lonely path of love!

But, O divine Sojourner,
’Midst man’s unfathomed ill,
Love, that made Thee a mourner,
It is not man’s to tell.

“Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well.” … Oh! to think of the Lord Himself, whom none of the princes of this world knew, but who was the Lord of glory, sitting weary on the well, thirsty, and dependent upon this world for a drink of water—the world that was made by Him, and knew Him not!

He was the display, at all cost to Himself, of divine love to man.

I adore the love that led Him to be made sin for me. There was the full testing of the love that carried Him through all. It is deeply instructive, though very dreadful to see there what man is. What do I expect of my friends if I am on trial? At least that they will not forsake me. They all forsook Him, and fled! In a judge? I expect him to protect innocence. Pilate washes his hands of His blood, and gives Him over to the people! In a priest, what do I expect? That he will intercede for the ignorant and for them that are out of the way. They urge the people, who cry, “Away with him, away with him!” Every man was the opposite of what was right, and that one Man was not only right, but in divine love He was going trough it all!

His sorrows must ever be a depth into which we look over on the edge with solemn awe. … It exalts His grace to the soul to look into that depth, and makes one feel that none but a divine Person (and one perfect in every way) could have been there.

He looked for some to take pity, but there was none, and for comforters, but found none. … He was tested and tried to the last degree of human suffering and sorrow, standing alone in this, praying in an agony and alone … none to sympathise with Him; Mary of Bethany was the only one, but for the rest never one had sympathy with Him; never one that wanted it that He had not sympathy with.

None of us can fathom what it was to One who had dwelt in the bosom of the Father to find His soul as a man forsaken of Him.

In the measure in which He knew what it was to be holy, He felt what it was to be made sin before God. In the measure in which He knew the love of God, He felt what it was to be forsaken of God.

He is the resurrection and the life. Wonderful that He, such in this world, Master of death, steps then into death Himself for us!

He has purchased us too dearly to give us up.

The traits of that face, Lord,
Once marred through Thy grace, Lord,
Our joy’ll be to trace
At Thy coming again.

With Thee evermore, Lord,
Our hearts will adore, Lord;
Our sorrow’ll be o’er
At Thy coming again.

第二十六周 黑夜歌声

“黑夜我要歌颂。”（诗42:8）

诗： 魂间满你灵、力、爱──天然除净的光景。
平安深广逾洋海，从此全人享稳静；
我神原来就是爱；凭灵能以知究竟。
每步不在他之外，主卫我魂常坚定。
黑夜这歌神赐下，荣耀颂赞永归祂。

最重要的得胜，常是在我们最怕失败的时候来临；照样，最喜乐而有光彩的诗歌，也是在那凶险急难的日子，迫使我们倚靠神的时候得到的。

生离死别，于我深感可怕，但在灵里却一无其事……。主耶稣作我们彼此的联系，不管距离多远，这条爱的联系，总不会中断。但如果没有祂，就是距离最近，也不能联系。称谢祂至圣的名，因祂的慈爱，永远长存！

祂使我们与世界各方面断绝，把我们连结于祂那作成的新造。

神的手始终是好过人的手；其中的严厉，也是好过世界的恩宠。神的手总是受祂自己爱的支配，而爱又受祂那完全智慧的支配，这一切我们不外会渐渐明白。

神使属祂的人，都感到有祂的扶持，所以今世所有的烦拢，都值得忍受。

我们的魂，天天都需要宝血的安慰。

要显明基督的丰满与恩典，破碎的器皿常比完整的器皿更好用。

主良善的手常在我身上，即使（特别是）在痛苦的事上，也是这样，约伯如何亨通的历史是毋庸多说的，但圣灵却详细的把他在难处中一切事情，都给我们记下来，这是值得叙述的，好叫属神的人得着益处，一直到这世代的末了。在这件事上，人会看见神的工作，愿我们完全信靠祂。

基督教生命的种子，是从神儿子的眼泪中撒出去的。到那日，祂必看见他劳苦的功效。因此在所有的事奉中（我们必须立足心志），若要有真实的祝福，我们必须在世界的反对中亲历忧患。就是在教会里，如果我们仰望得见基督的完全彰显，必有试炼上失败上，和缺欠上的更大忧患。

天然方面是想避免痛苦，然而当痛苦临到时，若是我们与神同在，力量与喜乐，也必一无所缺，在我们个人所经历的小难处中，我发觉叫我最受磨炼的，不是在试炼的时候，而是在等候试炼的时候。在试炼中，我安稳平静，没有半点的不安，但等候试炼的时候，却是烦躁莫名试炼来临而具有唬吓威势时我们就盘算恩量；但试炼既至，我们就在其中注目望主了。

那必须作的工作，若不需经过忧患即可作成的话，主必不会使爱患临到……主的大爱，远超我们的意念。信靠祂……，祂若打击一下，请你安心，祂要给你的比祂取去的更多。

失掉母亲，总是极大无比的损失。……也只有母亲才能是母亲，但神却能作我们的一切，祂能在我们一切忧患中保护我们。

TWENTY-SIXTH WEEK SONGS OF THE NIGHT

“In the night his song shall be with me.” Psalm 42:8

And oh I how deep the peace when, nature gone,
Thy Spirit fills the soul, strengthened with might,
With love divine; and God as love is known!
Lord! keep my soul, and guide my steps aright.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Praise be for ever His who giveth songs by night.

The most important victory has often come when we have been most afraid of being beaten; the brightest songs when an evil day has forced us to lean on God.

To me partings go dreadfully deep. In spirit all is well. … Jesus is the bond which no distance breaks and no nearness can give without Him, and which will, blessed be His name, last for ever.

He weans us in every way from this world, that He may attach us to that one for which He has created us anew.

God’s hand is always better than man’s; His seeming harshness even is better than the world’s favour; the spring which guides it is always love, and love directed by perfect wisdom, which we shall understand by and by.

He makes His own feel that His support is worth all the trouble in the world.

The soul needs daily the comfort of the blood.

Broken vessels are often better than whole ones to shew the sufficiency and grace of Christ.

His good hand is upon us, even (and very particularly) in things that are painful. It was not worth while to give a long history of the prosperity of Job, but the Holy Spirit of God has given us details of all that took place in his difficulties. It was worth while; and it is for the profit of His own to the end of the age. It is there that the work of our God is found. May He give us to have entire confidence in Him.

Christianity was sown in the tears of the Son of God. It is the travail of His soul which He will see in that day. So in all service (and we must make up our minds to it) where there is to be real blessing there must be the sorrow of the world’s opposition, and even in the church the greater sorrow of trials, of failure, and shortcoming, where we desire to see Christ fully represented.

Nature, of course, shrinks from suffering: still, when it comes, if we are with God, strength and joy are there. I have found in the little difficulties I have had much more trial in expecting trial than when it was there. When there I was calm and quiet and in no way uneasy. Whereas I was when expecting it: Out of it, if it threatens you are thinking of it. In it, you are looking out of it to the Lord.

If the needed work can be done without the sorrow, He will not send the sorrow. … His love is far better than our will. Trust Him. … If He strikes, be assured He will give more than He takes away.

[The loss of] a mother … is always an immense loss …. No one can be a mother but a mother, but God can be everything to us, and towards us in all our cares.”

第二十五周 舍己

“人要成了爱自己的。”（提后3:2新译）

诗：人啊！你已证明，你心一切蕴藏；
神恩不能感应，因你受“己”捆绑。

肉体总是把自己圈起来，因为肉体总是自私的，什么时候我们是在灵里，什么时候就有合一。

我们若专顾自己，就不能在人前见证神。

唯我主义和自爱观念所产生的愁烦，势必在人心中给邪灵有工作的余地。

爱，欢喜服事人，利己，则欢喜受人服事。

如果我看准了主耶稣的道路，祂的灵和祂的心意，那么就没有其他东西比“己”更可憎的，你在基督身上，永远不能找出一件这己的事。主不止没有自私自利，祂根本没有“己”。

人若完全交托了神，在试炼当中就必有主同在，心思也被蒙保守，有完全的平安，爱的灵，就是基督的灵，必定同在，那时若还想自己，那就是自私的灵。

圣灵是不能与“己”相交的。在圣灵没有带领我们的思想朝着主耶稣这前，这一个心是不能脱离“己”的，圣灵的实际同在，就把主钉死。顾念自己的意想一消失，我们的思想就专以主为对象。

我们有这样的特权，就是在神的居所和胸怀里，我们自己就完全了。

“己”的意志和以“己”作中心是思想，就是我们所有苦恼之源；因为外面的环境纵使难当，也许会带来忧患，但不能叫我们苦恼。如有藏苦恼，那必定是“己”的不安、不满所造成的结果。

我们天然的倾向，都是为自己求娱乐。这种娱乐，表南上好像无甚妨害，但能叫我们心离开神，它们是罪恶所娇宠的东西，许多人要问这些娱乐有什么害处，问题是在于：它们对你有什么用？你的心在那里？人什么时候稍微离开十字架（十字架就是向一切死。）我们的主就要说：“退我后边去罢！”

摩西没有去追求脸上发光，及至脸上发了光，他也不自知。由于他的与神同在，面就发起光来。一个会发光的面，是永不会看见自己的。因为这个人的心专向基督，可以说“己”在大体是灵没有了。

“己”总是与神分离的。

自信自恃是最坏的，“不要自以为有智慧。”眼睛只看自己的人，不能高瞻远瞩，我们的光景常是如此。

我们的祷告，我们的赞美，以及我们的事奉，是这样的可怜而没有价值，但我们还自以为不错。我们把那些受罪的玷污，需要向神认罪的东西，用来向人夸耀，博取称赞。所以你们看，何等需要敞开我们的心，对主说：“看在我里面有什么恶行没有，引导我走永生的道路。”

TWENTY-FIFTH WEEK SELF-RENUNCIATION

“Men shall be lovers of self.” 2 Timothy. 3:2 (New Translation)

O man! how hast thou proved
What in thy heart is found;
By grace divine unmoved,
By self in fetters bound.

The flesh always pens itself in, because it is selfish. When we are in the Spirit there is always unity.

Impossible when we think of ourselves to be witnesses to others of what God is!

The grief, which egotism and self-love produce, makes room for the action of the evil spirit on the soul.

Love likes to be a servant, and selfishness likes to be served.

If I get hold of the path, the spirit, the mind of Jesus, nothing could be more hateful to me than anything of self. You never find an act of self in Christ. Not merely was there no selfishness, but there was no self in Him.

When the soul is cast upon God the Lord is with the soul in the trial, and the mind is kept perfectly calm. The Spirit of love, the Spirit of Christ is there; if thinking of myself this is the spirit of selfishness.

The Holy Spirit has no fellowship with … self. The heart is not delivered from it until the Spirit has guided our thoughts to Jesus. … The effectual presence of the Spirit crucifies egotism and gives freedom of thought about ourselves … it occupies us with but one object—Jesus.

We have the privilege to have done with ourselves in the house and bosom of God.

Our own will and making ourselves the centre is the spring of all our wretchedness; for outward circumstances may be trying—may give sorrow, but not wretchedness—where this is it is the fruit of will, restless and discontented.

Our natural tendency is to get pleasures for self. Innocent they may be but they take the heart from God; they are spoiled by sin. People ask the harm of these things. The question is, What use are you making of them, and where is your heart? The moment there is a turning from the cross (death to everything) our Lord says, “Get thee behind me.”

Moses did not seek to have his face shine, nor even know when it did, but when he had been with God it did so. … A shining face never sees itself. The heart is occupied with Christ, and in a certain sense and measure self is gone.

Self is always alienation from God.

Self confidence is ruin. “Be not wise in thine own eyes.” They do not see far if they only see self, and that is what always is in our own eyes.

Our prayers, our praises and our services are so poor and worthless, and yet we are proud of them. We seek praise from our fellowmen for the very things we have to confess as tainted with sin before God. What need, therefore, to bare our hearts and say, “See if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.”