Daily Devotion - Dec 6 - ¥q¥¬¯u¨C¤éÆF­×(¤é) Morning by Morning

司布真每日靈修(日) Morning by Morning

十二月六日

經文: 「屬天的怎樣，凡屬天的也就怎樣。」（哥林多前書十五：48）

基督的身體與頭是同一性質的，不會像尼布甲尼撒夢中所見的巨像，有金頭、銅胸、鐵腿、半泥半鐵的腳趾。不，基督的身體不是這樣的組合，耶穌道成肉身，這肉身是會朽壞的，但耶穌死後又再復活，這復活的身體是榮耀的身體，是不朽壞的。所以經上說：「因為我活著，你們也要活著。」（約十四：19）耶穌是教會的頭，教會是祂的身體，教會每個會友，都是獨特的個體，也是上帝所揀選的子民，族類。若頭是純金的，那麼身體也是純金的。親愛的讀者，讓我們停下來思想這題目，我們可曾意識到我們本是卑微貧寒的塵土，耶穌卻救拔我們，將我們提昇到與祂的榮耀連接，這是何等尊貴的身份！

過去我們活在過犯罪惡中，有如行屍走肉，像是必朽壞的一條蟲；但現在我們認識了耶穌，藉著祂我們可呼叫全能的上帝為「阿爸父」，對道成肉身的耶穌我們可稱呼祂為「長兄」或「良人」。若我們曾以是某某偉大的先祖後裔為榮，更當以成為上帝的後嗣為榮為傲。


Morning, December 6

Scripture: "As is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly."(1 Corinthians 15:48)

The head and members are of one nature, and not like that monstrous image which Nebuchadnezzar saw in his dream. The head was of fine gold, but the belly and thighs were of brass, the legs of iron, and the feet, part of iron and part of clay. Christ's mystical body is no absurd combination of opposites; the members were mortal, and therefore Jesus died; the glorified head is immortal, and therefore the body is immortal too, for thus the record stands, "Because I live, ye shall live also." As is our loving Head, such is the body, and every member in particular. A chosen Head and chosen members; an accepted Head, and accepted members; a living Head, and living members. If the head be pure gold, all the parts of the body are of pure gold also. Thus is there a double union of nature as a basis for the closest communion. Pause here, devout reader, and see if thou canst without ecstatic amazement, contemplate the infinite condescension of the Son of God in thus exalting thy wretchedness into blessed union with his glory. Thou art so mean that in remembrance of thy mortality, thou mayest say to corruption, "Thou art my father," and to the worm, "Thou art my sister"; and yet in Christ thou art so honoured that thou canst say to the Almighty, "Abba, Father," and to the Incarnate God, "Thou art my brother and my husband." Surely if relationships to ancient and noble families make men think highly of themselves, we have whereof to glory over the heads of them all. Let the poorest and most despised believer lay hold upon this privilege; let not a senseless indolence make him negligent to trace his pedigree, and let him suffer no foolish attachment to present vanities to occupy his thoughts to the exclusion of this glorious, this heavenly honour of union with Christ.

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