4月30日 自發的愛
愛是恒久忍耐，又有恩慈……（林前十三4-8）
愛不是預先精打細算，而是自然流露的，是不知不覺地湧現。保羅所舉出的愛，不是清單式地計算出來。我們不能說：“好，現在我不再思想惡事，我要凡事相信。”愛的特質是自動自發。我們不是把耶穌的話擺在面前，當準則去遵行；而是當他的靈在我們裡面自由作工，我們就不知不覺地照著他的標準去生活。當我們回顧過去的經歷，就會詫異某種感情是如此公正無私，這就證明有真愛自然流露在其中。神的生命在我們裡面，但每每等到我們經歷過後，才恍然發覺。
愛的泉源是在神裡面，而不是在我們裡面。若想在自己天然性情中去找神的愛，簡直是緣木求魚。只有當聖靈將神的愛澆灌在我們心裡，我們才有真正的愛。
若我們想向神證明是多麼愛他，這正表示我們並不愛他；若要證明愛他，就要讓愛自動自發地流露出來。回想起來，也說不出為何我們會這樣做，是神的愛在裡面流露，故我們有這樣的表現。神的生命是自然的彰顯，因為愛的泉源是在聖靈裡面（羅五5）
祈禱◆噢，主啊，我何等需要被你的同在所充滿和振奮。賜我在你裡面得著愉快而寧靜的信心，它正是聖靈的憑證。
April
30 The Spontaneity Of Love
“Love suffereth long, and is kind . . .” 1
Corinthians 13:4-8
Love is not premeditated, it is
spontaneous, i.e., it bursts up in extraordinary ways. There is nothing of
mathematical certainty in Paul’s category of love. We cannot say – “Now I am
going to think no evil; I am going to believe all things.” The characteristic
of love is spontaneity. We do not set the statements of Jesus in front of us as
a standard; but when His Spirit is having His way with us, we live according to
His standard with out knowing it, and on looking back we are amazed at the
disinterestedness of a particular emotion, which is the evidence that the
spontaneity of real love was there. In everything to do with the life of God in
us, its nature is only discerned when it is past.
The springs of love are in God, not in us.
It is absurd to look for the love of God in our hearts naturally, it is only
there when it has been shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit.
If we try to prove to God how much we love
Him, it is a sure sign that we do not love Him. The evidence of our love for
Him is the absolute spontaneity of our love, it comes naturally. In looking
back we cannot tell why we did certain things, we did them according to the
spontaneous nature of His love in us. The life of God manifests itself in this
spontaneous way because the springs of love are in the Holy Ghost. (Romans 5:5)
