Daily Devotion - Apr 15 - ?}|w?w‾P‥C?eAF-× God's Best Secrets by Andrew Murray

慕安德烈每日靈修 God's Best Secrets by Andrew Murray 愛的順服 經文: 「你們若遵守我的命令，就常在我的愛裡。」（約翰福音十五：10） 常有人問，要如何才能常常住在主裡面？要如何才能完全為主而活？這也是我常作的禱告與熱切的盼望。聖經裡耶穌給我們簡單明確的答案：「你們要遵守我的道。」這是常住在祂裡面惟一的蒙福之法。「你們若遵守我的命令，就常在我的愛裡，正如我遵守我父的命令，常在祂的愛裡。」因愛而順服上帝，是享受祂愛的惟一方法。 在最後的晚餐席上，救主一再重複這句話：「你們若愛我，就必遵守我的命令。」（約十四：15）祂又兩次提到：「那遵守我命令的，就是愛我的；那愛我的，必蒙我父愛祂，我也要愛祂。」「若有人愛我，他就要遵行我的話；我父要愛他，我們也要與他合而為一。」在十五章三次提到：「你若遵守我的道，就常在我的愛裡。」「若我的話常在你裡面，無論你們求什麼，就必得著。」「你若做我所吩咐你的，就是我的朋友了。」 約翰福音有六次提到「愛祂」與「遵守祂的命令」的關係，以及遵守祂的話，所帶來的結果——天父與耶穌都要內住在我們心中，願意遵守祂的話，是住在祂愛裡的惟一之法。我們與主的關係，愛是一切，耶穌愛我們，我們也愛耶穌，而且也顯明在愛兄弟的事上。 有多少人信服這真理？太少了。太多人下意識就覺得這應許是不可能做到的。他們不相信靠著上帝的恩典，我們可以遠離罪惡，他們不相信新的應許：「我必將我的靈放在你們裡面，使你們順從我的律例，謹守遵行我的典章。」（結卅六：27）他們不明白只要藉著「絕對順服」耶穌，這看起來不可能做到的應許，是可以達到的——愛祂，遵守祂的命令，住在祂的愛裡。 「聖靈同在的奇妙應許，是上帝給的保證。」祂會賜下能力保守我們愛祂，且能遵守祂的命令。過內在生活的秘訣，就是讓耶穌住在我們心中，藉著聖靈奇妙大能，與我們熱切的禱告，如此上帝必大大祝福我們手中所做的工作。 THE OBEDIENCE OF LOVE Scripture: "If ye keep My commandments, ye shall abide in My love." —JOHN xv. 10. The question is often asked: How can I come to abide in Christ always ? To live wholly for Him ? Such is my desire and fervent prayer. In our text the Lord gives the simple but far-reaching answer: "Keep My commandments." This is the only, the sure, the blessed way of abiding in Him. "If ye keep My commandments, ye shall abide in My love; even as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love." Loving obedience is the way to the enjoyment of His love. Notice how often the Lord speaks of this in the last night. "If ye love Me, ye will keep My commandments" (xiv. 15). And then again twice over: "He that hath My commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me; and he that loveth Me shall be loved of My Father, and I will love him." "If a man love Me, he will keep My words; and My Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him." And so also thrice in chap, xv., "If My words abide in you, ask whatsoever ye will, and it shall be done unto you." "If ye keep My commandments, ye shall abide in My love." "Ye are My friends, if ye do the things which I command you." Six times over the Lord connects the keeping of the commandments with loving Him, and with the promise of the great blessing following on it, the indwelling of the Father and the Son in the heart. The love that keeps His commandments is the only way to abide in His love. In our whole relation to Christ, love is everything; Christ's love to us, our love to Him, proved in our love to the brethren. How little believers have accepted this teaching. How content many are with the thought that it is impossible. They do not believe that through the grace of God we can be kept from sin. They do not believe in the promise of the new covenant (Ezek. xxxvi. 27): "I will put My Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in My statutes, and ye shall keep My judgments." They have no conception how to a heart fully surrendered and given over to Christ alone He will make possible what otherwise appears beyond our reach: loving Him, keeping His commandments, abiding in His love. The wonderful promise of the Holy Spirit as the power of Christ's life in them was the pledge that they would indeed love Him and keep His words. That was to be the great secret of abiding in Christ, of having the indwelling of Christ and of God, and of the Divine efficacy of their prayer to bring down God's blessing on all their work. www.glorypress.com