六月十一日
我们爱，因爲神先爱我们。（约壹4：19）
星球幷没有光，它乃是反射从太阳来的光；我们心中幷没有真正爱耶稣的心，这爱乃是从主耶稣自己来的。从神无限之爱的泉源，涌出我们爱神的心。这是一个万古不灭的伟大真理，我们爱他除了因爲他先爱我们之外，幷无其他理由。我们爱他的爱是他爱我们之爱的苗裔。当看到神的工作时，谁都可以生出冷静的羡慕之心，但是只有神的灵能在人心中燃起火热的爱心来。
我们能爱耶稣是一件多麽希奇的事呀！当我们悖逆他的时候，他又用他奇妙的大爱把我们挽回过来。若非他在我们心中撒下爱种，我们便绝没有半点爱神的心。因此，这爱是由神流露到人心中的，是从神的爱所産生出来的；但这爱既然由神所生，也当让神来培养。
爱是自外移植来的，幷不是人心的泥土所能培养活的；它必须受上面的灌溉。爱耶稣的心像一棵柔嫩的花一样，它既从我们心中的磐石上吸收不到什麽养料，不久就枯萎了。
爱既来自天，也当用天粮来养活。在旷野里若没有从上面来的吗哪是不能存活的。爱必须用爱来喂养。我们爱神之心的精髓（生命和灵魂），就是他对我们的爱。
“主啊！我爱你，但我幷没有爱，因我无所献陈；
主啊！我爱你，这都是你的爱，因我靠你而活。
愿我倒空、消失、溶汇你爱中，使我无形无踪。”
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.”
