Daily Devotion - Mar 24 - ¼}¦w¼w¯P¨C¤éÆF­× God's Best Secrets by Andrew Murray

慕安德烈每日靈修 God's Best Secrets by Andrew Murray

聖潔的上帝

經文: 「聖父啊，求您因您所賜給我的名保守他們，叫他們合而爲一。求您用真理使他們成聖。您的道就是真理。我爲他們的緣故，自己分別爲聖，叫他們也因真理成聖。」（約翰福音十七：11，17，19）

耶穌在世時曾做過這樣偉大的禱告，期待上帝的應許成就。保羅在帖撒羅尼迦前書也曾說：「我們畫夜切切的祈求，好使你們在我們父上帝面前，心裡堅固，成爲聖潔，無可責備。」（三：10∼13）另外又說：「上帝親自使你們全然成聖……完全無可指摘。那召你們的本是信實的，祂必成就這事。」（帖前五：23、24）�
<BR> 請好好思想這些話，並以此向上帝禱告：「主阿！堅固我的心，使我聖潔無可責備。求上帝使我全然成聖。上帝無比信實，您必成就這事。」�
<BR> 這是何等的福份與特權，能用這些經文做禱詞，向我們暗中的父禱告，並安靜等候在祂面前，聖靈必要做工在我們心中，將上帝聖潔的屬性銘刻在我們心版。�
<BR> 「上帝的教會，就是在基督耶穌裡成聖，蒙召做聖徒的。」（林前一：2）�
<BR> 聖潔的上帝曾在舊約中一再顯明，在新約我們也發現上帝的百姓藉著聖靈動工也得以成聖，所以上帝說：
<BR> 「因我是聖潔的，所以你們要聖潔。」
<BR> 追求聖潔是屬靈生命首要的功課之一，人非聖潔，就不得見上帝。讓我們以敬畏的心，在上帝面前俯伏敬拜，並用信心相信上帝的應許：
<BR> 「那使你全然成聖的上帝，必成就這事。」


THE HOLINESS OF GOD (N. T.)

Scripture: &quot;Holy Father, keep through Thine own name those Thou hast given Me. Sanctify them. For their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.&quot; —JOHN xvii. 11, 17, 19.

Christ ever liveth to pray this great prayer. Expect and appropriate God's answer.
Hear the words of St. Pawl in I Thess.:
"Night and day praying exceedingly that the Lord may establish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God" (iii. 10-13).
"The very God of peace sanctify you wholly" (v. 23).
"Who also will do it" (v. 24).
Ponder deeply these words as you read them, and use them as a prayer to God: "Blessed Lord, strengthen my heart to be unblameable in holiness. God Himself sanctify me wholly. God is faithful, who also will do it."
What a privilege to commune with God in secret, to speak these words in prayer, and then to wait upon Him until through the working of the Spirit, they live in our hearts, and we begin to know something of the holiness of God.
"Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints" (1 Cor. i. 2).
God's holiness has been revealed in the Old Testament. In the New, we find the holiness of God's people in Christ, through the sanctification of the Spirit. Oh that we understood the bless&not;edness of saying:
"Be ye holy, for I am holy."
"With you, O my children, as with Me, holiness should be the chief thing." For this purpose the Thrice Holy One has revealed Himself to us, through the Son and the Holy Ghost. Let us use the word "holy" with great reverence of God, and then with holy desire, for ourselves. Worship the God who says:
"I am the Lord which hallow you."
Bow before Him in holy fear and strong desire, and then, in the fulness of faith, listen to the prayer promise:
"God Himself sanctify you wholly. Who also will do it."


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