九月十二日
耶和华是忌邪（或忌妒）施报的神。（鸿1：2）
信徒啊！你的神非常忌妒你爱别的。他曾拣选了你吗？他不能容忍你拣选别的。他曾用自己的血买了你吗？他不能让你想你是自己的人，或者想你是属这世界的。他以极大的爱爱你，甚至他在天堂上少不了你；他宁可自己死，也不愿你灭亡，幷且他不能容忍任何东西居间于你心中的爱和他自己当中。
他非常忌妒你信靠别的。他不能让你依靠血肉的膀臂。活水的泉源既然爲你畅流不息，他是不能让你到破裂不能存水的池子喝水的。我们投靠他，他就欢喜；但若我们投靠别的，依靠自己的智慧，或是朋友的智慧——当我们依靠自己的工作时，他就不喜悦，幷且也必管教我们，好使我们归向他。
他也非常忌妒我们与别的爲友。你和任何人的谈话都不当超过和耶稣的谈话。要单单住在他里面，这才是真的爱；但与世爲友，寻求属世的安慰和快乐，或是与同道交往而不与他相处，便使忌妒的神难过。他切望我们住在他里面，常与他相交；我们有许多苦难原来都是他叫我们的心离开世人、与他永远亲近的方法。
愿这种忌妒使我们常亲近基督，幷作我们的安慰，因爲他既这样爱我们，幷关心我们的爱，那麽他是不会容许什麽伤害我们的，他必保护我们脱离一切仇敌。愿神赐恩叫我们的心今天完全而且纯洁地献给我们亲爱的主，爲了神的忌妒，而闭眼不看这世界一切迷惑人的东西，因爲我们的眼还要看到尊贵、至荣耀的主！
September
12
“God
is jealous.” — Nahum 1:2
Your Lord is very jealous of your love, O
believer. Did He choose you? He cannot bear that you should choose another. Did
He buy you with His own blood? He cannot endure that you should think that you
are your own, or that you belong to this world. He loved you with such a love
that He would not stop in heaven without you; He would sooner die than you
should perish, and He cannot endure that anything should stand between your
heart’s love and Himself. He is very jealous of your trust. He will not permit
you to trust in an arm of flesh. He cannot bear that you should hew out broken
cisterns, when the overflowing fountain is always free to you. When we lean
upon Him, He is glad, but when we transfer our dependence to another, when we
rely upon our own wisdom, or the wisdom of a friend–worst of all, when we
trust in any works of our own, He is displeased, and will chasten us that He
may bring us to Himself. He is also very jealous of our company. There should
be no one with whom we converse so much as with Jesus. To abide in Him only,
this is true love; but to commune with the world, to find sufficient solace in
our carnal comforts, to prefer even the society of our fellow Christians to
secret intercourse with Him, this is grievous to our jealous Lord. He would
fain have us abide in Him, and enjoy constant fellowship with Himself; and many
of the trials which He sends us are for the purpose of weaning our hearts from
the creature, and fixing them more closely upon Himself. Let this jealousy
which would keep us near to Christ be also a comfort to us, for if He loves us
so much as to care thus about our love we may be sure that He will suffer
nothing to harm us, and will protect us from all our enemies. Oh that we may
have grace this day to keep our hearts in sacred chastity for our Beloved
alone, with sacred jealousy shutting our eyes to all the fascinations of the
world!
