Daily Devotion - Apr 5 - ?}|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 上帝的愛 經文: 「你要盡心、盡性、盡力愛耶和華你的上帝。」（申命記六：5） 上帝教導亞伯拉罕如何全心全意地信靠上帝；他信心堅定，將榮耀歸於上帝。摩西教導以色列民十誡，其中第一條，也是最重要的一條，就是全心全意愛主你的上帝。這是一切的根本，把握這原則，一切福份就跟著來。上帝是我們慈愛的造物主，按祂形像被造的人，是祂所愛的對象。 人若要找到幸福歸宿、及靈魂安憩之所，惟一之法就是全心全意地愛上帝。摩西曾說：「耶和華但喜愛你的列祖，愛他們。」（申十：15） 這樣一位慈愛的父上帝，配得我們永遠愛祂。我們的一生，我們的信仰理念，對祂的信靠順服，完全根基於一個想法：我們要全心全意地愛主我們的上帝。上帝的兒女每天的首要之務，就是遵行這個命令。 我們看到以色列民並沒有好好遵行這命令。摩西生前曾一再勸誡以色列民，要敬畏上帝，否則會遭禍，接著重申上帝的應許：「上帝要使人心受割禮。」——你們在祂裡面，也受了不是人手所行的割禮，乃是基督使你們脫離情慾的割禮。（西二：11）也就是要全心全意愛主我的上帝。（申卅：6） 這有福的應許是新約的第一個徵兆，先知耶利米藉聖靈在內心的感動，預言這命令，提醒百姓，勿遠離上帝偏行己道。但有多少基督徒了解這真理？太少了。大多數基督徒直覺「全心愛主」是不可能的，以致安於靈性膚淺的現狀不求長進。 讓我們學會兩個功課，就是「全心愛主」不但是上帝的呼召，同時祂配得我們這樣愛祂，而且上帝更要親自在我們心中成就這善工，哈利路亞！讚美主名。讓我們憑信等候祂，並期望這應許成就——能夠全心全意的愛主，而且上帝也要親自成全這善工，讓祂的愛充滿我的心。 THE LOVE OF GOD Scripture: "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might."—DEUT. vi. 5. God taught Abraham what it was to believe in God with all his heart; he was strong in faith, giving glory to God. Moses taught Israel what the first and great commandment was: to love God with all their heart. This was the first commandment as the origin and fountain out of which the others naturally proceed. It has its ground in the relationship between God as the loving Creator; and man made in His image as the object of that love. In the very nature of things ft could never be otherwise; man finds his life, his destiny, and his happiness in nothing but just this one thing, loving God with all the heart, and all the strength. Moses said: "The Lord has a delight in thy fathers, to love them" (Deut. x. 15) ; such a God was infinitely worthy of being loved. All our religion, all our faith in God and obedience to Him, our whole life, is to be inspired by the one thought: We are to love God with all our heart, and all our strength. Every day the child of God has as his first duty to live out this command. How little Israel was able to obey the command we all knew well. But ere Moses died, he was able, after speaking of the judgments God would bring upon His people for their sins, to make known the promise: "The Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart"—with a circumcision not made with hands, but the circumcision of Christ on the cross (Col. ii. 11)—"to love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul" (Deut. xxx. 6). This blessed promise was the first indication of the New Covenant, in which Jeremiah foretold of the law so written in the heart by the Holy Spirit, that they should no more depart from God but walk in His ways. But how little have Christians understood this; how easily they rest content with the thought that it is impossible. Let us learn the double lesson. This perfect heart, loving God with all our might, is what God claims, is what God is infinitely worthy of, is what God—blessed be His Name!—will Himself give and work in us. Let our whole soul go out in faith to meet, to wait for, and to expect the fulfilment of the promise—to love God with the whole heart is what God Him¬self will work in us. "The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit given unto us." That makes the grace of loving God with all our hearts most sure and blessed. www.glorypress.com