Daily Devotion - Dec 30 - «H¤ßªº¤ä²¼Ã¯ Faith's check book

信心的支票簿 Faith's check book

主愛我們到底

經文: ��「祂既然愛世間屬自己的人，就愛他們到底。」（約翰福音十三︰1）'Q�Z�

這應許是一個存在的事實，因為我們的上帝是亞伯拉罕、以撒、雅各的上帝，祂是昔在、今在、永在的父上帝。祂過去行奇妙大事，祂現在仍一樣做奇妙大事。只要天地還存在，祂對於屬祂的人必愛到底。�

當我們還作罪人的時候，耶穌就為我們死，上帝的愛就在此顯明。我們原本不配，竟蒙祂恩典，這是何等大的奇蹟！耶穌十二個門徒，原是軟弱平凡的常人，竟蒙祂揀選，這是何等大的恩典。再回想，我等何德何能，竟也蒙上帝的憐憫，成為上帝家的人，豈不該為此感激涕零！�

而且，上帝一旦開始愛我們，依上帝的本性，會愛我們到底。上帝的愛使信徒成為「屬祂自己」，因為上帝用祂寶血重價買贖我們歸在祂的名下，我們既是屬祂的民，祂就不停止對我們的愛，而且不讓任何一個人流失在羊圈外。弟兄姊妹們，祂就是以這樣不變的愛，愛我們到永遠。�

「愛他們到底」，這是一種天長地久、長闊高深，任憑海枯石爛，此情堅貞不移，至死不渝的大愛。上帝犧牲祂神聖寶貴的生命，把祂自己都給了我們，這是巔峰至極的愛。這樣無怨無悔、智慧純全、始終如一、毫無保留的愛，是人間找不到的。�

耶穌對我們每個信徒所存的愛，就是這樣一種愛。讓我們向這位愛我們的上帝，獻上衷心的感恩吧！�


Loved to Perfection

Scripture: "Having loved His own which were in the world, He loved them unto the end" (John 13:1).

This fact is essentially a promise; for what our LORD was He is, and what He was to those with whom He lived on earth, He will be to all His beloved so long as the moon endureth.

"Having loved": here was the wonder! That He should ever have loved men at all is the marvel. What was there in His poor disciples that He should love them? What is there in me?

But when He has once begun to love, it is His nature to continue to do so. Love made the saints "his own"--what a choice title! He purchased them with blood, and they became His treasure. Being His own, He will not lose them. Being His beloved, He will not cease to love them. My soul, He will not cease to love thee!

The text is well as it stands: "to the end." Even till His death the ruling passion of love to His own reigned in His sacred bosom. It means also to the uttermost. He could not love them more: He gave Himself for them. Some read it, to perfection. Truly He lavished upon them a perfect love, in which there was no flaw nor failure, no unwisdom, no unfaithfulness.

Such is the love of Jesus to each one of His people. Let us sing to our Well-beloved a song.


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