沒有愛 . . .  Without Love . .

. . . 神就是爱。. . . God is love. -约翰一书1 John 4:16 神说，我们要照着我们的形像，按着我们的样式造人， Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness. . .” - 创世记 Genesis 1:26

滿足人心的聖爱不以自我为中心 - Satisfying Agape love is not self-centered, but otherly 爱是恒久忍耐，又有恩慈。爱是不嫉妒。爱是不自夸。不张狂。 5 不作害羞的事。不求自己的益处。不轻易发怒。不计算人的恶。 6 不喜欢不义。只喜欢真理。 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. -哥林多前书 1 Corinthians 13:4-6

他待我与待常人无异, 他信任我, 他称我为弟兄, 他向上帝索取我的新生 而我却一直恨著世界, 因为世界一直恨著我 如今，我为何允许这个人,　触动我的心弦又教我如何去爱？ 他待我与待常人无异,　他信任我,　他称我为弟兄, 　他向上帝索取我的新生 而我却一直恨著世界,　因为世界一直恨著我 Yet why did I allow that man, To touch my soul and teach me love? He treated me like any other, He gave me his trust, He called me brother My life he claims for God above, Can such things be? For I had come to hate the world, This world that always hated me 以眼还眼,　将心变为石头 这是我赖以为生的法则,　这是我唯一懂得的方法 Take an eye for an eye! Turn your heart into stone! This is all I have lived for! This is all I have known!

他只要说个字, 我就必须回去, 再度陷於鞭打，痛苦的劳役之中 可是他却让我自由, 我感觉羞耻在我心理像把刀割 他只要说个字,　我就必须回去,　再度陷於鞭打，痛苦的劳役之中 可是他却让我自由,　我感觉羞耻在我心理像把刀割 他告诉我，我有灵魂,　他是怎麽知道的呢？ 怎样的灵魂打动我的生命？我还有没有别条路可走？ One word from him and I'd be back, Beneath the lash, upon the rack Instead he offers me my freedom, I feel my shame inside me like a knife He told me that I have a soul, How does he know? What spirit comes to move my life? Is there another way to go? 　 我即将升向高天，但我又掉落下来,　夜晚就要结束,　我凝视著虚无的黑夜 看见自己罪恶的漩涡,　我将从过去的世界中逃脱出来,　逃离尚万强的世界 尚万强已经不存在了,　从今天起是另一个故事的开头 I am reaching, but I fall, And the night is closing in And I stare into the void, To the whirlpool of my sin, I'll escape now from the world From the world of Jean Valjean, Jean Valjean is nothing now, Another story must begin!

凡事包容。凡事相信。凡事盼望。凡事忍耐。 滿足人心的聖爱不以自我为中心 - Satisfying Agape love is not self-centered, but otherly 滿足人心的聖爱而以他人爲中心 以神的爱為根基 -Satisfying Agape love is grounded in God’s love 凡事包容。凡事相信。凡事盼望。凡事忍耐。 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things -哥林多前书 1 Corinthians 13:7

因我们还软弱的时候，基督就按所定的日期为罪人死。 7 为义人死，是少有的，为仁人死，或者有敢作的。 8 惟有基督在我们还作罪人的时候为我们死，神的爱就在此向我们显明了。 9 现在我们既靠着他的血称义，就更要借着他免去神的忿怒。 10 因为我们作仇敌的时候，且借着神儿子的死，得与神和好，既已和好，就更要因他的生得救了。 11 不但如此，我们既借着我主耶稣基督，得与神和好，也就借着他，以神为乐。 You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. 7 Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. 8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God‘s wrath through him! 10 For if, when we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life! 11 Not only is this so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation. - 罗马书 Romans 5:6-11

况且我们的软弱有圣灵帮助，我们本不晓得当怎样祷告，只是圣灵亲自用说不出来的叹息，替我们祷告。 27 鉴察人心的，晓得圣灵的意思因为圣灵照着神的旨意替圣徒祈求。 28 我们晓得万事都互相效力，叫爱神的人得益处，就是按他旨意被召的人。 In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. 27 And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God‘s will. 28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. –罗马书 Romans 8:26-28

我们既有这许多的见证人，如同云彩围着我们，就当放下各样的重担，脱去容易缠累我们的罪，存心忍耐，奔那摆在我们前头的路程， 2 仰望为我们信心创始成终的耶稣。（或作仰望那将真道创始成终的耶稣）他因那摆在前面的喜乐，就轻看羞辱，忍受了十字架的苦难，便坐在神宝座的右边。 3 那忍受罪人这样顶撞的，你们要思想，免得疲倦灰心。 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. 2 Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3 Consider him who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart. – 希伯来书 Hebrews 12:1-3

Father Damien Kalaupapa, Molokai Hawaii

滿足人心的聖爱是一个不断增長的过程Satisfying Agape love is a process that grows 滿足人心的聖爱不以自我为中心 - Satisfying Agape love is not self-centered, but otherly 滿足人心的聖爱而以他人爲中心 以神的爱為根基 -Satisfying Agape love is grounded in God’s love 滿足人心的聖爱是一个不断增長的过程Satisfying Agape love is a process that grows 爱是永不止息。先知讲道之能，终必归于无有。说方言之能，终必停止，知识也终必归于无有。 9 我们现在所知道的有限，先知所讲的也有限。 10 等那完全的来到，这有限的必归于无有了。 11 我作孩子的时候，话语像孩子，心思像孩子，意念像孩子。既成了人，就把孩子的事丢弃了。 12 我们如今仿佛对着镜子观看，模糊不清（模糊不清原文作如同猜谜）。到那时，就要面对面了。我如今所知道的有限。到那时就全知道，如同主知道我一样。 13 如今常存的有信，有望，有爱，这三样，其中最大的是爱。 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. 12 Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. 13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. –哥林多前书 1 Corinthians 13:8-13

爱是永不止息。先知讲道之能，终必归于无有。说方言之能，终必停止，知识也终必归于无有。 9 我们现在所知道的有限，先知所讲的也有限。 10 等那完全的来到，这有限的必归于无有了。 11 我作孩子的时候，话语像孩子，心思像孩子，意念像孩子。既成了人，就把孩子的事丢弃了。 12 我们如今仿佛对着镜子观看，模糊不清（模糊不清原文作如同猜谜）。到那时，就要面对面了。我如今所知道的有限。到那时就全知道，如同主知道我一样。 13 如今常存的有信，有望，有爱，这三样，其中最大的是爱。 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. 12 Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. 13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. –哥林多前书 1 Corinthians 13:8-13

亲爱的弟兄阿，我们应当彼此相爱。因为爱是从神来的。凡有爱心的，都是由神而生，并且认识神。 8 没有爱心的，就不认识神。因为神就是爱。 9 神差他独生子到世间来，使我们借着他得生，神爱我们的心，在此就显明了。 10 不是我们爱神，乃是神爱我们，差他的儿子，为我们的罪作了挽回祭，这就是爱了。 11 亲爱的弟兄阿，神既是这样爱我们，我们也当彼此相爱。 12 从来没有人见过神。我们若彼此相爱，神就住在我们里面，爱他的心在我们里面得以完全了。 13 神将他的灵赐给我们，从此就知道我们是住在他里面，他也住在我们里面。 14 父差子作世人的救主，这是我们所看见且作见证的。 15 凡认耶稣为神儿子的，神就住在他里面，他也住在神里面。 16 神爱我们的心，我们也知道也信。神就是爱。住在爱里面的，就是住在神里面，神也住在他里面。 17 这样爱在我们里面得以完全，我们就可以在审判的日子，坦然无惧。因为他如何，我们在这世上也如何。 18 爱里没有惧怕。爱既完全，就把惧怕除去。因为惧怕里含着刑罚。惧怕的人在爱里未得完全。 19 我们爱，因为神先爱我们。 20 人若说，我爱神，却恨他的弟兄，就是说谎话的。不爱他所看见的弟兄，就不能爱没有看见的神。（有古卷作怎能爱没有看见的神呢）。 21 爱神的，也当爱弟兄，这是我们从神所受的命令。Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11 Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us. 13 We know that we live in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. 15 If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God. 16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. 17 In this way, love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment, because in this world we are like him. 18 There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. 19 We love because he first loved us. 20 If anyone says, “I love God,” yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. 21 And he has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother. - 约翰一书 1 John 4:7-21

少种的少收，多种的多收。这话是真的。 7 各人要随本心所酌定的。不要作难，不要勉强，因为捐得乐意的人，是神所喜爱的。 8 神能将各样的恩惠，多多地加给你们。使你们凡事常常充足，能多行各样善事。 9 如经上所记，他施舍钱财，周济贫穷。他的仁义存到永远。 10 那赐种给撒种的，赐粮给人吃的，必多多加给你们种地的种子，又增添你们仁义的果子。 11 叫你们凡事富足，可以多多施舍，就借着我们使感谢归于神。 12 因为办这供给的事，不但补圣徒的缺乏，而且叫许多人越发感谢神。 Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. 7 Each man should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. 8 And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work. 9 As it is written: "He has scattered abroad his gifts to the poor; his righteousness endures forever." 10 Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness. 11 You will be made rich in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and through us your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God. 12 This service that you perform is not only supplying the needs of God's people but is also overflowing in many expressions of thanks to God. –哥林多后书 2 Corinthians 9:6-12