十一月十六日
耶和华是我的份。（哀3：24）
幷不是说“耶和华是我一部分的分，”也不是说“耶和华是在我的分内”；乃是说他自己是我的灵魂所承受的整个産业。我们一切所有所愿的都在这一个圈的圆周之中。耶和华是我的份。不仅他的恩典，他的爱，他的约，而是耶和华自己。他已拣选我们作爲他的份，我们也拣选他作爲我们的份。耶和华必定先爲我们拣选我们的産业，不然我们永也不会爲自己拣选的；但我们既蒙他拣选之爱的呼召，就当说：“神爱我，我爱神；神拣选我，我拣选神。”
耶和华是我们全能的份。神是充满万有的；神在自己里面既是全能的，他也必爲我们成爲全能的。人的愿望很不容易满足。当他梦想到自己得到满足之后，又另外感到还有一些自己所没有的，在他心中的小蚂蟥立即说：“给呀，给呀！”但我们在我们神的份中就可以得到一切，所以我们当祈求说：除你以外，在天上我有谁呢？除你以外，在地上我也没有所爱慕的。”愿我们以耶和华爲乐，他使我们得以畅饮于他的乐河之中。
我们的信心像鹰一样展翅上腾，飞到满了神爱的天堂，在那里作爲它永远居住的所在。“用绳量给我的地界，坐落在佳美之处；我的産业实在美好。”愿我们永远以耶和华爲乐；我们要叫世人晓得我们是快乐而且是蒙福的民，因此使他们也说：“我们要与你们同去，因爲我们听见神与你们同在了。”
November
16
“The
Lord is my portion, saith my soul.”–Lamentations 3:24
It is not “The Lord is partly my
portion,” nor “The Lord is in my portion”; but he himself makes
up the sum total of my soul’s inheritance. Within the circumference of that
circle lies all that we possess or desire. The Lord is my portion. Not his
grace merely, nor his love, nor his covenant, but Jehovah himself. He has
chosen us for his portion, and we have chosen him for ours. It is true that the
Lord must first choose our inheritance for us, or else we shall never choose it
for ourselves; but if we are really called according to the purpose of electing
love, we can sing–
“Lov’d of my God for him again
With love intense I burn;
Chosen of him ere time began,
I choose him in return.”
The Lord is our all-sufficient portion. God fills himself; and if God is
all-sufficient in himself, he must be all- sufficient for us. It is not easy to
satisfy man’s desires. When he dreams that he is satisfied, anon he wakes to
the perception that there is somewhat yet beyond, and straightway the
horse-leech in his heart cries, “Give, give.” But all that we can
wish for is to be found in our divine portion, so that we ask, “Whom have
I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside
thee.” Well may we “delight ourselves in the Lord” who makes us
to drink of the river of his pleasures. Our faith stretches her wings and
mounts like an eagle into the heaven of divine love as to her proper
dwelling-place. “The lines have fallen to us in pleasant places; yea, we
have a goodly heritage.” Let us rejoice in the Lord always; let us show to
the world that we are a happy and a blessed people, and thus induce them to
exclaim, “We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with
you.”
