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基督的愛

經文: 「我愛你們，正如父愛我一樣，你們要常在我的愛裡。」（約翰福音十五：9）「我賜給你們一條新命令，乃是叫你們彼此相愛；我怎樣愛你們，你們也要怎樣相愛。」（約翰福音十三：34）

耶穌給祂的門徒一條新命令：「你們要彼此相愛，像我愛你們一樣。」（約十五：12）為此，祂要信徒們明白，他們所以要彼此相愛，乃是因為上帝先愛了祂，所以耶穌也以這樣的愛來愛門徒，這愛是神聖持續、永遠不變的愛。         這屬天的思想極為廣大深奧，需要花時間慢慢細嚼，才能體會「上帝是愛」的真正涵義。向上帝禱告，求聖靈幫助我們明白這大愛的真意：上帝對耶穌基督的愛，耶穌基督對我們的愛，以及弟兄姐妹們彼此相愛的情感，都源自於上帝的愛。         上帝差派祂的獨生愛子來到人間，這就是上帝在意我們，把人類放在祂心坎裡的具體表現。耶穌也把這樣的愛，投注在門徒身上，不但以言教感化他們，更親自為他們洗腳，用身教來做榜樣。五旬節時，天上降下聖靈澆灌他們，好使門徒能彼此相愛，甚至能愛抵擋他們的仇敵。         這種屬天的愛，不只是一種感覺，或一種蒙福的經驗而已，它是一種有生命力的活水泉源，從天父那兒流向耶穌，又從耶穌那兒流向門徒，再流向世人的心。         我們常不加思索地說：「我沒辦法像耶穌那樣去愛眾人。」其實這並非不可能，因為有聖靈的幫助，我們是可以做到的。聖經上說：那些默想上帝的應許，並用信心接受者，必有勇氣來到施恩寶座前向上帝祈求，上帝也會賜下出人意外的大愛，去愛那不可愛的人。

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CHRIST'S LOVE TO US

Scripture: "A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another, even as I have loved you."—JOHN xiii. 34."Even as the Father hath loved Me, I also have loved you; abide ye in My love."—JOHN xv. 9.

The Lord gave His disciples a perfectly new commandment, that they should love one another, as He had loved them. To this end He wanted them to know what the love was wherewith He had loved them. Nothing less than the love wherewith the Father had loved Him. It is the everlasting, unchangeable, divine love wherewith the Father loved the Son, wherewith the Son loved us, and wherewith we should love one another.         The thought is so vast and so heavenly that it needs time to grasp it. Pray about it and let God's Spirit make it a blessed reality: the love of God to Christ, the love of Christ to me, my love to the brethren, is one and the same almighty, everlasting love.         God sent His Son to earth to manifest this love. The same love that God had to His Son, He had in His heart for all mankind. This same love Jesus exercised toward His disciples. This love was given them when the Holy Ghost was poured out on the Day of Pentecost, that they might love one another, and more—even love those who were the enemies of Christ.         It is all one and the same love. Not merely a feeling or a blessed experience, but a living divine power, flowing from the Father to the Son, and working in the hearts of the disciples through the Son, and so streaming forth to the whole world.         We are ever ready to say: "We cannot love others as Christ has loved us." It is not impossible. The Holy Spirit, as the power of this holy love, sheds it abroad in our hearts. This is God's own Word. He who meditates on it until he believes it will have courage to bring his petitions to the Throne of Grace, and to receive the love which passes all understanding.