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七月二十九日

「原來基督的愛激勵我們。」（林后   5:14 新國際版）

「激勵」二字，在原文是一件東西在水上，被水沖去，就是這里的意思。基督的愛，好像水的力量那樣把你沖去。李文司登說：如果有人為著買賣黑奴的緣故來到阿非利加，難道基督的愛不能激勵一個人到阿非利加去么？所以他去了。因他一人被基督的愛激勵，把自己的生命放下，不知叫多少人因此得了生命。真的，唯有基督的愛能激勵人。愛，是不能拿出給人看的。但是，你如果嘗了這愛的甘美，而不被它沖去，那是不可能的。

基督的愛所以激勵我們，是因為我們斷定兩件事：一，基督一人死，就是替眾人死了。基督的愛，与基督的死是分不開的，所以有基督的愛，是因基督死了。二，活著的人不再為自己活，乃為替他們死而复活的主活，這是目的。因著基督的愛激勵我，我沒法不為祂活，沒法站在自己的地位。

 July 29

"For the love of Christ motivates us." (2 Corinthians 5:14)  In the original language, the word "encouragement"means something on the water, which is flowed away by the water power. The love of Christ power flowed you away just like it.  Rev. Lewinstein said,  "If someone came to Africa for buying and selling black slaves.  Wouldn't the love of Christ motivate a person to go to Africa too? So he did go to there. Because  the love of Christ power inspired him alone to lay down his own life to save countless people. Truly, only the love of Christ can motivate person. But love cannot be shown to people. But it is impossible to taste the sweetness of this love without being inspired by it.

The love of Christ motivates us, because it affirms us two things to be crtain: First, Christ died for all, that is the reason why Christ's love can't  separable from His dead.  Therefore, we have His love, due to  Christ died for us.  Second, the living persons no longer live for themselves, but for the resurrection Lord, that is the purpose. As the love of Christ motivates me, I cannot help to live for Him, in stead for standfast on my place.