八月十日
基督是我们的生命。（西3：4）
保罗常用奇妙而丰富的说法，提到基督是我们生命的来源：“你们死在过犯罪恶之中，他叫你们活过来。”使拉撒路从坟墓里出来的声音也使我们复活得到新生的样式。他现在是我们生命的本体。我们因他的生命而生；他在我们里面，是我们荣耀的盼望，行动的源泉，是推动我们一切思想的中心思想。基督是我们生命的饮食：除了耶稣的血肉之外，有什麽能养活基督徒呢？“这是从天上降下来的粮叫人吃了就不死。”在罪的旷野中疲倦的路人，除了到他里面，怎能满足心灵的饥渴呢？基督是我们生命的安慰。我们一切真正的快乐都是来自他；在困难之中，有他同在就有安慰。除了爲他而活再没有一件值得我们活的事了，他的慈爱比生命更好。基督是我们生命的目标：船只怎样开足马力向着港口行进，信徒也这样急急地向着救主怀中的海港疾驶；箭怎样飞向标的，基督徒也这样直趋基督耶稣，与他有完全的相交；兵丁怎样爲官长奋战，与他同得胜利的荣冠；信徒也是这样爲基督争战，幷因他主的得胜而获胜。“因我活着就是基督”（或译因我活着是爲基督；或，因基督使我活着）。
基督是我们生活的模范：内心既有这生命，外面也必有相同的发展；若我们的生活靠近主耶稣，我们就必像他。我们要把他当作我们神圣的蓝本，我们要照着他的脚步走，直到他在荣耀中成爲我们生命的冠冕。基督徒是多麽安全，多麽尊荣，多麽快乐呀！因爲基督是我们的生命！
August
10
“Christ,
who is our life.” — Colossians 3:4
Paul’s marvellously rich expression indicates, that Christ is the source
of our life. “You hath He quickened who were dead in trespasses and
sins.” That same voice which brought Lazarus out of the tomb raised us to
newness of life. He is now the substance of our spiritual life. It is by His
life that we live; He is in us, the hope of glory, the spring of our actions,
the central thought which moves every other thought. Christ is the sustenance
of our life. What can the Christian feed upon but Jesus’ flesh and blood?
“This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat
thereof, and not die.” O wayworn pilgrims in this wilderness of sin, you
never get a morsel to satisfy the hunger of your spirits, except ye find it in
Him! Christ is the solace of our life. All our true joys come from Him; and in
times of trouble, His presence is our consolation. There is nothing worth
living for but Him; and His lovingkindness is better than life! Christ is the
object of our life. As speeds the ship towards the port, so hastes the believer
towards the haven of his Saviour’s bosom. As flies the arrow to its goal, so
flies the Christian towards the perfecting of his fellowship with Christ Jesus.
As the soldier fights for his captain, and is crowned in his captain’s victory,
so the believer contends for Christ, and gets his triumph out of the triumphs
of his Master. “For him to live is Christ.” Christ is the exemplar of
our life. Where there is the same life within, there will, there must be, to a
great extent, the same developments without; and if we live in near fellowship
with the Lord Jesus we shall grow like Him. We shall set Him before us as our
Divine copy, and we shall seek to tread in His footsteps, until He shall become
the crown of our life in glory. Oh! how safe, how honoured, how happy is the
Christian, since Christ is our life!
