六月十一日
我們愛，因爲神先愛我們。（約壹4：19）
星球幷沒有光，它乃是反射從太陽來的光；我們心中幷沒有真正愛耶穌的心，這愛乃是從主耶穌自己來的。從神無限之愛的泉源，涌出我們愛神的心。這是一個萬古不滅的偉大真理，我們愛他除了因爲他先愛我們之外，幷無其他理由。我們愛他的愛是他愛我們之愛的苗裔。當看到神的工作時，誰都可以生出冷靜的羡慕之心，但是只有神的靈能在人心中燃起火熱的愛心來。
我們能愛耶穌是一件多麽希奇的事呀！當我們悖逆他的時候，他又用他奇妙的大愛把我們挽回過來。若非他在我們心中撒下愛種，我們便絕沒有半點愛神的心。因此，這愛是由神流露到人心中的，是從神的愛所産生出來的；但這愛既然由神所生，也當讓神來培養。
愛是自外移植來的，幷不是人心的泥土所能培養活的；它必須受上面的灌溉。愛耶穌的心像一棵柔嫩的花一樣，它既從我們心中的磐石上吸收不到什麽養料，不久就枯萎了。
愛既來自天，也當用天糧來養活。在曠野裏若沒有從上面來的嗎哪是不能存活的。愛必須用愛來喂養。我們愛神之心的精髓（生命和靈魂），就是他對我們的愛。
“主啊！我愛你，但我幷沒有愛，因我無所獻陳；
主啊！我愛你，這都是你的愛，因我靠你而活。
願我倒空、消失、溶匯你愛中，使我無形無踪。”
June
11
“We
love Him because He first loved us.” — 1 John 4:19
There is no light in the planet but that
which proceedeth from the sun; and there is no true love to Jesus in the heart
but that which cometh from the Lord Jesus himself. From this overflowing
fountain of the infinite love of God, all our love to God must spring. This
must ever be a great and certain truth, that we love Him for no other reason
than because He first loved us. Our love to Him is the fair offspring of His
love to us. Cold admiration, when studying the works of God, anyone may have,
but the warmth of love can only be kindled in the heart by God’s Spirit. How
great the wonder that such as we should ever have been brought to love Jesus at
all! How marvellous that when we had rebelled against Him, He should, by a
display of such amazing love, seek to draw us back. No! never should we have
had a grain of love towards God unless it had been sown in us by the sweet seed
of His love to us. Love, then, has for its parent the love of God shed abroad
in the heart: but after it is thus divinely born, it must be divinely
nourished. Love is an exotic; it is not a plant which will flourish naturally
in human soil, it must be watered from above. Love to Jesus is a flower of a
delicate nature, and if it received no nourishment but that which could be
drawn from the rock of our hearts it would soon wither. As love comes from
heaven, so it must feed on heavenly bread. It cannot exist in the wilderness
unless it be fed by manna from on high. Love must feed on love. The very soul
and life of our love to God is His love to us.
“I love thee, Lord, but with no love
of mine,
For I have none to give;
I love thee, Lord; but all the love is
thine,
For by thy love I live.
I am as nothing, and rejoice to be
Emptied, and lost, and swallowed up in
thee.”
