九月十二日
經(jīng)文: 「耶和華是忌邪施報(bào)的上帝铁瞒。」（拿鴻書一：2）
? ? ? 信徒拔ψ獭慧耍！你的神非常忌妒你愛(ài)別的身辨。祂曾揀選了你嗎？祂不能容忍你揀選別的芍碧。祂曾用自己的血買了你嗎煌珊？祂不能讓你想你是自己的人，或者想你是屬這世界的泌豆。祂以極大的愛(ài)愛(ài)你定庵，甚至祂在天堂上少不了你；祂寧可自己死踪危，也不愿你滅亡蔬浙，并且祂不能容忍任何東西居間于你心中的愛(ài)和祂自己當(dāng)中。
祂非常忌妒你信靠別的贞远。祂不能讓你依靠血肉的膀臂畴博。活水的泉源既然為你暢流不息蓝仲，祂是不能讓你到破裂不能存水的池子喝水的俱病。我們投靠祂，祂就歡喜杂曲；但若我們投靠別的庶艾，依靠自己的智慧，或是朋友的智慧——當(dāng)我們依靠自己的工作時(shí)擎勘，祂就不喜悅咱揍，并且也必管教我們，好使我們歸向祂棚饵。
祂也非常忌妒我們與別的為友煤裙。你和任何人的談話都不當(dāng)超過(guò)和耶穌的談話。要單單住在祂里面噪漾，這才是真的愛(ài)硼砰；但與世為友、尋求屬世的安慰和快樂(lè)欣硼，或是與同道交往而不與祂相處题翰，便使忌妒的神難過(guò)。祂切望我們住在祂里面诈胜，常與祂相交豹障；我們有許多苦難原來(lái)都是祂叫我們的心離開世人、與祂永遠(yuǎn)親近的方法焦匈。
愿這種忌妒使我們常親近基督血公，并作我們的安慰，因?yàn)榈k既這樣愛(ài)我們缓熟，并關(guān)心我們的愛(ài)累魔，那么祂是不會(huì)容許什么傷害我們的摔笤，祂必保護(hù)我們脫離一切仇敵。愿神賜恩叫我們的心今天完全而且純潔地獻(xiàn)給我們親愛(ài)的主垦写，為了神的忌妒而閉眼不看這世界一切迷惑人的東西吕世，因?yàn)槲覀兊难圻€要看到尊貴、至榮耀的主梯澜！
Morning, September 12
Scripture: “God is jealous.”(Nahum 1:2)
? ? ? ? Your Lord is very jealous of your love, O believer. Did he choose you? He cannot bear that you should choose another. Did he buy you with his own blood? He cannot endure that you should think that you are your own, or that you belong to this world. He loved you with such a love that he would not stop in heaven without you; he would sooner die than you should perish, and he cannot endure that anything should stand between your heart's love and himself. He is very jealous of your trust. He will not permit you to trust in an arm of flesh. He cannot bear that you should hew out broken cisterns, when the overflowing fountain is always free to you. When we lean upon him, he is glad, but when we transfer our dependence to another, when we rely upon our own wisdom, or the wisdom of a friend—worst of all, when we trust in any works of our own, he is displeased, and will chasten us that he may bring us to himself. He is also very jealous of our company. There should be no one with whom we converse so much as with Jesus. To abide in him only, this is true love; but to commune with the world, to find sufficient solace in our carnal comforts, to prefer even the society of our fellow Christians to secret intercourse with him, this is grievous to our jealous Lord. He would fain have us abide in him, and enjoy constant fellowship with himself; and many of the trials which he sends us are for the purpose of weaning our hearts from the creature, and fixing them more closely upon himself. Let this jealousy which would keep us near to Christ be also a comfort to us, for if he loves us so much as to care thus about our love we may be sure that he will suffer nothing to harm us, and will protect us from all our enemies. Oh that we may have grace this day to keep our hearts in sacred chastity for our Beloved alone, with sacred jealousy shutting our eyes to all the fascinations of the world!
