二月四日
耶和华还是爱他们。（何3:1）
信徒呀！回头看看你一切的经验，想想你的神领你经过旷野的时候，他怎样天天赐你衣食，容忍你一切的过犯。你发一切的怨言和你贪慕埃及一切食物的时候，他又怎样不把这些存记在心上呢？他怎样使石头裂开流出水来供给你，并用天上来的吗哪养活你呢？想想你在一切患难中的时候，他的恩典又怎样够你用的呢？他的血怎样饶恕了你一切的罪呢？他的杖、他的竿又怎样安慰你呢？当你这样回想到过去主对你的爱时，那末，再用信眼看看将来主对你的爱吧，要记得基督的约和血中所有的超过了过去。那曾爱你、恕你的主，仍要不停地爱你、恕你。他是阿拉法，他也是俄梅戛。他是始，他也是终。所以，你要记得，即或经过死荫的幽谷，你也不用怕遭害，因为他与你同在。当你站立在约旦河冰冷的水流中时，你也不用怕，因为死并不能使你与他的爱分离。当你进入永久的奥秘中时，你也不必战栗，“因为我深信无论是死，是生，是天使，是掌权的，是有能的，是现在的事，是将来的事，是高处的，是低处的，是别的受造之物，都不能叫我们与神的爱隔绝；这爱是在我们的主基督耶稣里的。”我的心哪！现在你还未重新燃起你的爱吗？这还不足使你爱耶稣吗？当你飞过无限之爱的高空时，你的心不使你在主你神里面欢乐起来吗？当我们想到神的爱时，我们的心必在我们里面燃烧起来，我们就必更加爱他。
February
4
“The
love of the Lord.” –Hosea 3:1
Believer, look back through all thine experience, and think of the way
whereby the Lord thy God has led thee in the wilderness, and how He hath fed
and clothed thee every day–how He hath borne with thine ill manners–how He
hath put up with all thy murmurings, and all thy longings after the flesh-pots
of Egypt–how He has opened the rock to supply thee, and fed thee with manna
that came down from heaven. Think of how His grace has been sufficient for thee
in all thy troubles–how His blood has been a pardon to thee in all thy
sins–how His rod and His staff have comforted thee. When thou hast thus looked
back upon the love of the Lord, then let faith survey His love in the future,
for remember that Christ’s covenant and blood have something more in them than
the past. He who has loved thee and pardoned thee, shall never cease to love
and pardon. He is Alpha, and He shall be Omega also: He is first, and He shall
be last. Therefore, bethink thee, when thou shalt pass through the valley of
the shadow of death, thou needest fear no evil, for He is with thee. When thou
shalt stand in the cold floods of Jordan, thou needest not fear, for death
cannot separate thee from His love; and when thou shalt come into the mysteries
of eternity thou needest not tremble, “For I am persuaded, that neither
death; nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things
present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature,
shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our
Lord.” Now, soul, is not thy love refreshed? Does not this make thee love
Jesus? Doth not a flight through illimitable plains of the ether of love
inflame thy heart and compel thee to delight thyself in the Lord thy God?
Surely as we meditate on “the love of the Lord,” our hearts burn
within us, and we long to love Him more.
