十一月十六日

耶和華是我的份。（哀3：24）

幷不是說“耶和華是我一部分的分，”也不是說“耶和華是在我的分內”；乃是說他自己是我的靈魂所承受的整個産業。我們一切所有所願的都在這一個圈的圓周之中。耶和華是我的份。不僅他的恩典，他的愛，他的約，而是耶和華自己。他已揀選我們作爲他的份，我們也揀選他作爲我們的份。耶和華必定先爲我們揀選我們的産業，不然我們永也不會爲自己揀選的；但我們既蒙他揀選之愛的呼召，就當說：“神愛我，我愛神；神揀選我，我揀選神。”

耶和華是我們全能的份。神是充滿萬有的；神在自己裏面既是全能的，他也必爲我們成爲全能的。人的願望很不容易滿足。當他夢想到自己得到滿足之後，又另外感到還有一些自己所沒有的，在他心中的小螞蟥立即說：“給呀，給呀！”但我們在我們神的份中就可以得到一切，所以我們當祈求說：除你以外，在天上我有誰呢？除你以外，在地上我也沒有所愛慕的。”願我們以耶和華爲樂，他使我們得以暢飲于他的樂河之中。

我們的信心像鷹一樣展翅上騰，飛到滿了神愛的天堂，在那裏作爲它永遠居住的所在。“用繩量給我的地界，坐落在佳美之處；我的産業實在美好。”願我們永遠以耶和華爲樂；我們要叫世人曉得我們是快樂而且是蒙福的民，因此使他們也說：“我們要與你們同去，因爲我們聽見神與你們同在了。”

November 16

"The Lord is my portion, saith my soul."--Lamentations 3:24

It is not "The Lord is partly my portion," nor "The Lord is in my portion"; but he himself makes up the sum total of my soul's inheritance. Within the circumference of that circle lies all that we possess or desire. The Lord is my portion. Not his grace merely, nor his love, nor his covenant, but Jehovah himself. He has chosen us for his portion, and we have chosen him for ours. It is true that the Lord must first choose our inheritance for us, or else we shall never choose it for ourselves; but if we are really called according to the purpose of electing love, we can sing--

"Lov'd of my God for him again

With love intense I burn;

Chosen of him ere time began,

I choose him in return."

The Lord is our all-sufficient portion. God fills himself; and if God is all-sufficient in himself, he must be all- sufficient for us. It is not easy to satisfy man's desires. When he dreams that he is satisfied, anon he wakes to the perception that there is somewhat yet beyond, and straightway the horse-leech in his heart cries, "Give, give." But all that we can wish for is to be found in our divine portion, so that we ask, "Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee." Well may we "delight ourselves in the Lord" who makes us to drink of the river of his pleasures. Our faith stretches her wings and mounts like an eagle into the heaven of divine love as to her proper dwelling-place. "The lines have fallen to us in pleasant places; yea, we have a goodly heritage." Let us rejoice in the Lord always; let us show to the world that we are a happy and a blessed people, and thus induce them to exclaim, "We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you."