三月六日
你们必须重生。（约3:7）
重生是救恩的基础，我们也必须注意我们是否真正“重生”了，因为有很多人想自己是重生了，其实并未重生。要确实知道，一个人有基督徒的名字，但并不一定有基督徒的本质；生在一个基督徒的环境里，被人当作是一位基督徒是毫无用处的，除非再加上——被圣灵的能力重生。“重生”是一件很奥秘的事，是人的话所不能形容的。“你听见风的响声，却不晓得从那里来，往那里去。凡从圣灵生的，也是如此。”虽然如此，这种改变是可以晓得，可以感觉到的：圣灵的工作可以被人晓得，蒙恩的经验也能被人感到。这种工作时超自然的。这不是人为的一种工作，乃是一种新的律在人心中运行，更新人的灵魂，影响整个的人。这并不是名字的改变，而是性质的更新，因此我不再是本来的我，而是在基督耶稣里面的一个新造的人。把一个死尸洗净，装扮起来，和使他复活过来是一件截然不同的事；人只能装扮，惟独神能使死人复活。若你已被“重生”，你必承认：“主耶稣，永活的父！你是我灵魂的父亲。若非你的灵把新的、圣洁的和属灵的生命气息吹在我里面，我今天必仍然‘死在过犯罪恶’之中。我属天的生命都是从你而来，我愿把这生命都奉献与你。‘我的生命与基督一同藏在神里面。’‘现在活着的不再是我，乃是基督在我里面活着。’“愿主使我们能切实明了这个性命攸关的真理，因为未重生的人，就是未得救、未被赦免的人；没有神，就没有盼望。
March 6
“Ye must be born again.” –John 3:7
Regeneration is a subject which lies at the very basis of salvation, and
we should be very diligent to take heed that we really are “born
again,” for there are many who fancy they are, who are not. Be assured
that the name of a Christian is not the nature of a Christian; and that being
born in a Christian land, and being recognized as professing the Christian
religion is of no avail whatever, unless there be something more added to
it–the being “born again,” is a matter so mysterious, that human
words cannot describe it. “The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou
hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it
goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.” Nevertheless, it is a
change which is known and felt: known by works of holiness, and felt by a
gracious experience. This great work is supernatural. It is not an operation
which a man performs for himself: a new principle is infused, which works in
the heart, renews the soul, and affects the entire man. It is not a change of
my name, but a renewal of my nature, so that I am not the man I used to be, but
a new man in Christ Jesus. To wash and dress a corpse is a far different thing
from making it alive: man can do the one, God alone can do the other. If you
have then, been “born again,” your acknowledgment will be, “O
Lord Jesus, the everlasting Father, Thou art my spiritual Parent; unless Thy
Spirit had breathed into me the breath of a new, holy, and spiritual life, I
had been to this day ‘dead in trespasses and sins.’ My heavenly life is wholly
derived from Thee, to Thee I ascribe it. ‘My life is hid with Christ in God.’
It is no longer I who live, but Christ who liveth in me.” May the Lord
enable us to be well assured on this vital point, for to be unregenerate is to
be unsaved, unpardoned, without God, and without hope.
