0614 选择我
生命常常需要你的关注。试炼会来到，祝福也会丰丰富富地倾倒下来，但在这一切之中，我必须仍然是你的焦点。我是那位渴望填满你每一个空虚与每一个喜乐的主。我看顾你，对你低语，并且永不离开你，不论你的感受如何。我不仅要充满你，我也喜悦与你同行。如果你愿意邀请我，即使是最平凡的事情，我也乐意与你一同去做。
当你分心时，来选择我。当恐惧向你的灵魂咆哮，当人们拒绝你，当孤独扼住你，当欢笑使你忘记我是那位使你充满喜乐的主时，请选择来爱我。选择去爱他人；选择和平之路，即便它直直穿过痛苦的深渊；选择在今天寻见我，并相信我不仅有能力回应祷告，也有智慧拒绝祷告，并借着那些时刻教导你何为我的爱；请选择与我一起拥抱生命的奥秘。
正当我从他们身边走过时，我遇见了他。我找到了我所爱慕的那一位！我抓住他，紧紧将自己系在他身上，心里再也不肯软弱。现在，我要把他带回到我里面的圣殿，就是我被赐予新生命之处——进入我最深处的部分，那孕育我的地方。——《雅歌》3:4
0614 Choose me.
Life will always demand your attention. Trials will come, and blessings will be poured out extravagantly, but through it all, I must remain your focus. I am the One who longs to fill every void and every joy. I watch you, whisper to you, and never leave you, despite how you may feel. Not only do I fill you, but I enjoy walking alongside you. It’s my pleasure to do even the most mundane tasks with you–if only you would invite me.
Choose me when distractions come. When fear rages against your soul, when people reject you, when isolation strangles you, when laughter pushes you to forget that I am the One who fills you with joy, choose to love me. Choose to love others. Choose the path of peace even when it leads straight through the middle of pain. Choose to find me–today, and to believe that I not only have the power to answer prayers, but also have the wisdom to decline them, and to use those moments to teach you about my love. Choose to embrace the mystery of life with me.
Just as I moved past them, I encountered him. I found the one I adore! I caught him and fastened myself to him, refusing to be feeble in my heart again. Now I’ll bring him back to the temple within where I was given new birth–into my innermost parts, the place of my conceiving. — SONG OF SONGS 3:4