4月8日 他復活的目的
基督這樣受害，又進入他的榮耀，豈不是應當的嗎？（路二十四26）
主的十字架是進入生命的門：他的復活，表示他有能力把他的生命傳遞給我。我重生之後，就從復活的主接受他的生命。主復活的目的，為要領“許多兒子進入榮耀裡”。他達成任務後，就有權柄叫我們成為神的兒女。我們從未有過神子與神的這種關係；但卻因著神子，獲得了兒子的位分。主從死裡復活，進入了一種嶄新的生命，這生命是他成肉身以前未曾有過的。他復活的生命是前所未有的；因此他的復活對我們來說，叫我們也有像祂一樣復活的生命，而不是我們舊有的生命。有一天，我們將有一個像他榮耀的身體。如今，我們也可享受他復活的效應，行事為人有新生的樣式，使我認識他復活的大能。
“正如你曾賜給他權柄，管理凡有血氣的，叫他將永生賜給你所賜給他的人。”（約十七2）在工作效果來說，“聖靈”一詞是指此時此地在人心中作工的永恆生命。聖靈就是那賜予能力的神，把救贖實現在我們的經歷裡。感謝神，只要我們順服聖靈，他就能在我們裡面陶鑄耶穌的性情，這是榮耀而嚴肅的確切事實。
祈禱◆噢，主啊，願你今天與我們真實地同在——願聖靈同在的極大喜樂彌漫我們。
April
8 His Resurrection Destiny
“Ought
not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into His glory?” Luke
24:26
Our Lord’s Cross is the gateway into His
life: His Resurrection means that He has power now to convey His life to me.
When I am born again from above, I receive from the Risen Lord His very life.
Our Lord’s Resurrection destiny is to
bring “many sons unto glory.” The fulfilling of His destiny gives Him the right
to make us sons and daughters of God. We are never in the relationship to God
that the Son of God is in; but we are brought by the Son into the relation of
sonship. When Our Lord rose from the dead, He rose to an absolutely new life,
to a life He did not live before He was incarnate. He rose to a life that had
never been before; and His resurrection means for us that we are raised to His
risen life, not to our old life. One day we shall have a body like unto His
glorious body, but we can know now the efficacy of His resurrection and walk in
newness of life. “I would know Him in the power of His resurrection.”
“As Thou hast given Him power over all
flesh, that He should give eternal life to as many as Thou hast given Him.”
“Holy Spirit” is the experimental name for Eternal Life working in human beings
here and now. The Holy Spirit is the Deity in proceeding power Who applies the
Atonement to our experience. Thank God it is gloriously and majestically true
that the Holy Ghost can work in us the very nature of Jesus if we will obey
Him.
