12月24日
隐藏的生命
你们的生命与基督一同藏在 神里面。（西三3）
我与基督一同藏在神里面的生命有大能安稳，这事实是神的灵见证的，并且也不断见诸新约各书信中。我往往视成圣生活为最不稳定的东西，其实这是最有保障的，因为全能的神在里面、在后面支持着。最不稳固的生活，是不靠神而活。我们若已重生，只要肯听神的警告，行在光中，最容易的是与神有正确的关系，而最难的是走差路。
有时想脱离罪恶，被圣灵充满，行在光明中，好像高山的顶峰崇高峻妙，我们就会说：“可惜，我怎么也攀不上去！”但一旦靠神恩典上去了，却发现这原来不是一个山顶，而是一片高原，有足够的地方生长。“你使我的道路宽广。”
你若真看见耶稣，我保证你不会对他疑惑。当他说“你心里不要忧愁”，你若真看见他，必然不会忧愁，因为他在这里，根本不用疑惑。每次你单独与他相交，他的话都活现出来。“我将我的平安赐给你们。”这平安要从头顶渗透至脚踵，是无可抗拒的可靠。“你们的生命与基督一同藏在神里面”，主无比的平安就临到你。
祈祷◆“与基督一同藏在神里面”的生命，是何等喜乐的生命！可是，我的神，尽管有着你一切的恩典和忍耐，我仍然不敢有一刻想到我离开这生命有多远。然而，我是你所造的，我要感谢你。
December
24 The Hidden Life
“Your
life is hid with Christ in God.” Colossians 3:3
The Spirit
of God witnesses to the simple almighty security of the life hid with Christ in
God and this is continually brought out in the Epistles. We talk as if it were
the most precarious thing to live the sanctified life; it is the most secure
thing, because it has Almighty God in and behind it. The most precarious thing
is to try and live without God. If we are born again it is the easiest thing to
live in right relationship to God and the most difficult thing to go wrong, if
only we will heed God’s warnings and keep in the light.
When we
think of being delivered from sin, of being filled with the Spirit, and of
walking in the light, we picture the peak of a great mountain, very high and
wonderful, and we say – “Oh, but I could never live up there!” But when we do
get there by God’s grace, we find it is not a mountain peak, but a plateau where
there is ample room to live and to grow. “Thou hast enlarged my steps under
me.”
When you
really see Jesus, I defy you to doubt Him. When He says – “Let not your heart
be troubled,” if you see Him I defy you to trouble your mind, it is a moral
impossibility to doubt when He is there. Every time you get into personal
contact with Jesus, His words are real. “My peace I give unto you,” it is a
peace all over from the crown of the head to the sole of the feet, an
irrepressible confidence. “Your life is hid with Christ in God,” and the
imperturbable peace of Jesus Christ is imparted to you.
