Daily Devotion - Dec 11 - ¼}¦w¼w¯P¨C¤éÆF­× God's Best Secrets by Andrew Murray

慕安德烈每日靈修 God's Best Secrets by Andrew Murray

盡心盡力

經文: 「你要盡心，盡性，盡意，盡力，愛主你的上帝。」（馬可福音十二：30）

藉著這段經文，上帝教導我們明白祂是多麼需要我們全然委身，完全歸祂——用我們全部的愛、全部的禱告、全部的信任，全神貫注的順服祂，這樣的服事，需要我們毫無保留地完全降服於祂的意志。

「盡心愛主」就是以你全部的渴望，全部的感情來愛祂；「盡性愛主」就是以你全部的意志與精神來愛主；「盡意愛主」就是以你的學識、理智、想像力、思考力來服事主；「盡力愛主」也就是犧牲一切在所不惜，一切都是為了上帝。我們一切的渴望，就是百分之百地來愛上帝、服事上帝。

上帝居然對我們抱著這樣的期待，這不是極為奇妙嗎？祂不是造物主嗎？祂創造我們的目的，不就是要藉著我們顯出祂的榮耀嗎？祂不就是那位全然完美、聖潔榮耀的上帝嗎？豈不配得我們將一切放下來跟隨祂？祂不是那位滿有恩典、慈愛，樂於施恩的主嗎？豈不配得我們全心全意地愛祂，尊崇祂嗎？是的，凡在我裡面的，都當歌頌讚美祂！

想想看這節經文要如何應用在我們的禱告生活上？我們是否被激勵地每天花時間來親近主？我們當把這樣的命令放在心中，立定志向，每天都來主前領受祂的恩典與教誨，這乃是上帝所要的。若你每天照主吩咐的去行，你將發現你的人生大不一樣！你的靈命將逐日茁壯，直到在錫安見主的面。

上帝必照祂所應許的，當我們親近祂時，祂也親近我們。這位全能的上帝，更要藉著聖靈，將祂的愛澆灌在我們心中，讓我們坦然無懼、殷勤地來到施恩寶座前，得憐恤、蒙恩惠，企盼禱告蒙回應，做我們隨時的幫助。


'WITH ALL THY HEART'

Scripture: "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength."—MARK xii. 30.

In this great command the Lord our God has tried to teach us how greatly He needs us wholly for Himself. Our love, our prayers, our consecration, our trust, our obedience—in all these there must be an unreserved surrender to God's will and service.

"With all thy heart"—with its longings, with its affections, with its attachments, with all its desires. "With all thy soul"—with its vital powers, and the will as a royal master in the soul. "With all thy mind"—its faculties of thought, of knowledge, of reasoning, and its powers of memory and imagination. "With all thy strength"—this is nothing less than the sacri¬fice of everything, and the putting forth of our utmost endeavors. All for God, for God alone, and our one desire must be to love and serve Him perfectly.

What a wonderful God it is who has such a right to expect so much from us! Is He not the Creator, who has made us to show forth His glory, and for this purpose must possess us wholly? Is He not the Perfect and Glorious One, who is worthy that we should forsake all to follow Him? Is He not the Everlasting Love, and Goodness and Mercy, ever desirous of pouring out blessings upon us ? Is He not indeed worthy, ten thousand times worthy, that all that is within us shall love and honor Him with all our strength, and all our heart?

Think what it would mean in your prayer-life if you were strengthened with all might to call upon God each day! Take this commandment into your heart, and make it the rule of your life, and try to realize that God must have all. It will make a great difference in your life, and you will go from strength to strength until you appear before God in Zion.

God will assuredly work in our hearts that which He has promised in this command. We are unable to keep it in our own strength. The Almighty One will, through His Spirit, pour out His love in our hearts. Let us earnestly desire an answer to our prayers, and approach with boldness the Throne of Grace where this grace may be received.


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