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“If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them.” (Luke 6:32 NIV)
你们若单爱那爱你们的人，有什么可酬谢的呢？就是罪人也爱那爱他们的人。路加福音 6:32
If you only love on and off like a light switch, you do not love others like God wants you to love. Jesus said, “If you only love those who love you, what credit is that to you?” (Luke 6:32a NIV)
如果你的爱像电灯一样时开时关，那么你就没有按照神的心意去（活出�的）爱了。所以，耶稣这样说：“你们若单爱那爱你们的人，有什么可酬谢的呢？”（路加福音 6:32）
His point is this: All of us can love those who love us back. Becoming a master lover means you learn to love the unlovable � when you love people who don’t love you, when you love people who irritate you, when you love people who stab you in the back or gossip about you.
他的意思是：我们每个人都能做的，就是爱那些知恩图报的人。而你若想要成为一个有博爱之心的人，就得学着去爱那些不可爱的人。也就是，去爱那些不爱你的人，包括那些常常触怒你的人，或是那些在你背后指指点点、说长道短的人。
This may seem like an impossible task, and it is � that’s why we need God’s love in us, so we can then love others: “We know and rely on the love God has for us” (1 John 4:16a NIV).
如果这听上去有点象天方夜谭，那你其实是清醒的。因为，无私的付出爱，并且一味的坚持，这真的需要神的爱先充满我们的心。所以，圣经这样说：“神爱我们的心，我们也知道也信”（约翰一书 4:16）。
When you realize how much God loves you � with an extravagant, irresistible, unconditional love � then his love will change your entire focus on life. If we don’t receive God’s love for us, we’ll have a hard time loving other people. I’m talking about loving people who are unlovely, difficult, irritable, and those who are different or demanding.
当你认识到神对自己的爱有多么丰盛、多么的坚忍、多么的无私，那么�的爱就能改变你对生命的关注点。如果我们不去接受神给我们的爱，那么关爱他人就是一件太难太难的事。注意，这里我们说的仍然是爱那些不可爱的、满是困难的、易于激怒人的、与常人迥异的、常常不满足的人。
You can’t do that until you have God’s love coming through you. You need to know God’s love so it can overflow out of your life into others.
没有神的爱在你心里运行，这些就真的太难了。你必须去认识神的爱，这样你的心里才能充满�的爱，直到这爱开始满溢，涌流出来，进入他人的生命中。
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