Daily Devotion - Apr 23 - ?}|w?w‾P‥C?eAF-× God's Best Secrets by Andrew Murray

慕安德烈每日靈修 God's Best Secrets by Andrew Murray 與耶穌同釘十字架 經文: 「我已經與基督同釘十字架，現在活著的不再是我，乃是基督在我裡面活著。」（加拉太書二：20） 因著亞當墮落犯罪，我們人類都遺傳始祖的原罪；同樣的，因著我們接受耶穌基督，做為我們的救主，我們在靈性上，與祂同釘十字架，向罪算自己是死的。這事對保羅而言是如此真實，因此他能夠說：「我已經與基督同釘十字架，現在活著的不再是我，乃是基督在我裡面活著。」耶穌的死在他身上發動，其力量是如此的大，以致他不再為自己而活，乃是為住在他心中的耶穌而活。他已經向「罪」與「老我」死，並與住在他心中的主同復活。 因著釘十字的耶穌住在他心中，他就有份於耶穌基督的生命。這意味著得倒空自己，選擇奴僕的樣式，謙卑順服以致於死——因著上帝住在他心裡面，這些性情就內化於心中，保羅把自己看成被釘十架的人。 耶穌被釘十架，可說是聖潔的上帝，戰勝罪惡的最高表現，所有接受耶穌的信徒，都有份於耶穌的能力與祝福。基督徒憑信接受這真理，就能向著世界，看自己如何釘十架的死人，並對眼前的情慾、今生的驕傲說「不」。當我們明白十架的奧秘，受死的耶穌，就會在我們裡面啟示祂的能力，引導我們與祂有更深入的溝通與契合，並有與祂一起受苦的心志。 同時，我們也能明白下面這句話的真義：「耶穌被釘十架受死，正是上帝智慧與能力的彰顯。」保羅已深深領悟這個中三味，因此他敢如此說：「我已與基督同釘十字架，現在活著的不再是我，乃是基督在我裡面活著。」 感謝上帝的恩典，藉著祂所賜的信心，我們得著能力，可以每天將自己交託給上帝，向罪把自己看成是死的，向上帝則在耶穌基督裡，把自己看成是活的。 CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST Scripture: "I have been crucified with Christ; yet I live; and yet no longer I, but Christ liveth in me."—GAL. ii. 20. As in Adam we died out of the life and the will of God into sin and corruption, so in Christ we are made partakers of a new spiritual death, a death to sin and into the will and the life of God. Such was the death Christ died; such is the death we are made partakers of in Him. To Paul this was such a reality that he was able to say: "I have been crucified with Christ; yet I live; and yet no longer I, but Christ liveth in me." The death with Christ had had such power that he no longer lived his own life; Christ lived His life in him. He had indeed died to the old nature and to sin, and been raised up into the power of the living Christ dwelling in him. It was the crucified Christ Who lived in him, and made him partaker of all that the cross had meant to Christ Himself. The very mind that was in Christ, with His self-emptying and taking the form of a servant, His humbling Himself to become obedient unto death—these dispositions worked in him because the crucified Christ lived in him. He lives in very deed as a crucified man. Christ's death on the cross was His highest exhibition of His holiness and victory over sin. And the believer who receives Christ is made partaker of all the power and blessing that the crucified Lord has won. As the believer learns to accept of this by faith, he yields himself as now crucified to the world and dead to its pleasure and pride, its lusts and self-pi easing. He learns that the mystery of the cross, as the crucified Lord reveals its power in him, opens the entrance into the fullest fellowship with Christ and the conformity to His sufferings. And so he learns, in the full depth of its meaning, what the Word has said: "Christ crucified, the power of God and the wisdom of God." He grows into a fuller apprehension of the blessedness of daring to say: "I am crucified with Christ, I live no more; Christ the crucified liveth in me." Oh the blessedness of the power of the God-given faith that enables a man to live all the day counting himself, and yield¬ing himself to God, as indeed dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. www.glorypress.com