Daily Devotion - Dec 24 - 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

我是獨一的上帝

經文: 「耶穌回答說：第一要緊的，就是說：以色列阿！你要聽。主我們上帝、是獨一的主。……除了祂以外，再沒有別的上帝。」（馬可福音十二：29，32）

律法可以叫我們服從上帝，但沒有辦法叫我們愛上帝；勉強的愛是沒有意義的；惟有因著愛而順服才做得甘心。但要愛上帝，首先要對這位充滿慈愛憐憫、滿有榮光同在的上帝，有清楚的認識，才能生發「愛」的回應。當摩西說：「上帝是獨一的真神。」他明白上帝是至高無上的上帝，配得我們的愛，惟有在人真實體會「上帝是滿有慈愛恩典，不輕易發怒的上帝」時，他才會接受這真理，並全心全意地愛祂。

我們已經提過上帝要求我們要盡心、盡意、盡性、盡力愛上帝。但在我們實際去做時，卻發現要持續做下去太難了，除非我們清楚看到上帝多麼配得我們去愛的異象！難怪很多基督徒很怕看到「盡心、盡意、盡性、盡力」愛上帝這字眼，因為覺得做不到。

是的，人若不先來到上帝面前認罪，不瞭解上帝的恩典與慈愛有多大，竟然願意捨己拯救像我這等不配的罪人，就不會滿懷感恩，燃燒起強烈回報服事的心，俯首說：「上帝是配得我們的愛，我要全心全意來服侍祂。」

親愛的弟兄姐妹們，這兒有禱告生活的秘訣——每天來到上帝面前，行在祂愛的光中，因著祂愛的吸引，我們就願全然順服，把這當成你一生的目標。如此你將會發現，當我們願意盡心、盡意、盡性、盡力來愛耶穌，降服於祂的旨意時，祂也要以祂說不出來滿有榮光的大喜樂來環繞你。


"I AM THE LORD, AND THERE IS NONE ELSE"

Scripture: "Jesus answered, The first (of all the commandments) is: Hear, 0 Israel! The Lord our God, the Lord is One." — MARK xii. 29.

The law may command us to love, but it cannot make us love. It is powerless to force us to love God. Love can be called forth only by that which is worthy of love. Love to God can be born only of the knowledge of Him as the one true God, in His excellent greatness and glory, His unspeakable love and com¬passion. When Moses said, "The Lord our God is one God," he was making known the supreme right that God has to our love. It is when the love of God expressed in these words enters our hearts, "The Lord God, full of compassion and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy and truth," that we are willing to accept the truth and love Him whole-heartedly.

We have already referred to God's command that we should love Him with all the heart, and all the soul, and all the mind, and all the strength. The soul that earnestly seeks will soon find the difficulty of continuance in this love unless it has a vision of how worthy God is to be loved with the whole heart. It is no wonder that Christians are afraid of the words "with all the heart and all the strength."

It is impossible for anyone, unless he has really confessed his sin, to understand how abundantly God forgives, and how rich He is in mercy. The heart filled with a burning desire to serve God will say : "God is indeed worthy of my love ; I will love Him with my whole heart."

Dear reader, here you have the secret of the prayer-life — to meet God each day, to live in the light of His love, to draw near in an absolute surrender to His will. We shall attain to this only as we daily approach the Throne of Grace with boldness. Let this be the great object of your life. You will find these two thoughts complete each other. God, the only Lord, in the glory of His unspeakable love, giving Himself wholly for us, and che soul in true worship and adoration giving itself to God with all the heart and all the strength.


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