12月23日
个人怎样有份于救赎？
但我断不以别的夸口，只夸我们主耶稣基督的十字架。（加六14）
耶稣基督的福音总牵涉到意志的问题。我接受神在基督十字架上对罪的宣判吗？我对耶稣的死有丝毫兴趣吗？我愿意与他的死连合，对罪、对世界、对自己的兴趣完全死去，以致除了他，将一切看为有损吗？作门徒的最大权利，就是在十字架上签上名字，表示对罪死了。你要单独来到耶稣面前，对他说你不愿意罪从你身上除净，或对他说你愿意不计代价，与他的死连合。只要你凭信与十架的主相遇，一种超然死的体验随即而生，你会有超乎知识的知识，告诉你“旧人”已经与基督同钉。旧人与基督同钉的明证，就是神在你里面的生命，叫你顺服主的声音，如今是出奇的轻省容易。
有时候，主会让我们看看没有了他我们会怎样，要证明他说：“离了我，你们就不能作什么。”因此，基督教的基石是个人对主耶稣全心全意的爱慕效忠。我们往往以为初信主进入天国时那种惊喜之情，就是神的目的；其实他给我们这经历，目的是要我们体会什么是与主耶稣合一。
祈祷◆噢，主啊，为着你自己，和靠着你那无所不能的恩典，我学习进入你的同在中；我赞美你。愿你的恩典、亮光和智慧触摸我的身体和心灵；愿你的触摸带来光明和生气。
December
23 How Can I Personally Partake In The Atonement?
“But
God forbid that I should glory save in the cross of Our Lord Jesus Christ.”
Galatians 6:14
The Gospel
of Jesus Christ always forces an issue of will. Do I accept God’s verdict on
sin in the Cross of Christ? Have I the slightest interest in the death of
Jesus? Do I want to be identified with His death, to be killed right out to all
interest in sin, in worldliness, in self – to be so identified with Jesus that
I am spoilt for every thing else but Him? The great privilege of discipleship
is that I can sign on under His Cross, and that means death to sin. Get alone
with Jesus and either tell Him that you do not want sin to die out in you; or
else tell Him that at all costs you want to be identified with His death.
Immediately you transact in confident faith in what Our Lord did on the Cross,
a supernatural identification with His death takes place, and you will know
with a knowledge that passeth knowledge that your “old man” is crucified with
Christ. The proof that your old man is crucified with Christ is the amazing
ease with which the life of God in you enables you to obey the voice of Jesus
Christ.
Every now
and again, Our Lord lets us see what we would be like if it were not for
Himself; it is a justification of what He said – “Without Me ye can do
nothing.” That is why the bedrock of Christianity is personal, passionate devotion
to the Lord Jesus. We mistake the ecstasy of our first introduction into the
Kingdom for the purpose of God in getting us there; His purpose in getting us
there is that we may realize all that identification with Jesus Christ means.
