Daily Devotion - Apr 28 - ?}|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 內住的基督 經文: 「使基督因你們的信，住在你們心裡。」（以弗所書三：14∼19） 以色列國與其他國不同之處，在於他們是耶和華所揀選的民族，上帝要住在他們當中，住在以色列聖殿中的至聖所中。在新約時代，這恩典廣被世界各族接受，只要是相信耶穌的人，祂都要住在他們心中。耶穌說：「有了我的命令又遵守的，這人就是愛我的；愛我的必蒙我父愛他，我也要愛他，並且要向他顯現。……且要與他同住。」（約十四：21，23）這也就是保羅所說：「這是外邦人中福音的奧祕，上帝住在他們裡面，成了榮耀的盼望。」或者如他常提的：「耶穌住在我裡面。」 福音的本質——以馬內利的上帝，樂意與人同住。但有多少基督徒相信這真理？經歷這應許？側耳聽聽保羅的教導，告訴我們如何得著這有福的應許！！ （1）「我屈膝在天父面前，求上帝恩膏我。」上帝的恩典要臨到那些謙卑屈膝、切切懇求的人，這要付上許多禱告的代價。 （2）「求祂按著祂豐盛的榮耀，藉著祂的靈，叫你們心裡的力量剛強起來。」這是使他們與世界有別，與罪惡無分的動力來源；我們也要將自己交託給主基督，盡心盡性愛祂，遵守祂的誡命，如此就成就聖經的應許：「天父與我都要來與他同住。」 （3）「使基督因你們的信，住在你們心裡。」上帝愛的本質，就是渴望住在人心裡，若我們能看到這點，並屈膝求上帝賜下這恩典，這樣的禱告必蒙垂聽，因著我們的渴慕與信心，上帝賜下這奇妙的禮物，就是讓耶穌住在我們心中。 （4）「叫你們的愛心有根有基，便叫上帝一切充滿的，充滿了你們。」（弗三：17，19節）這是我們可以經歷到的。 上帝的兒女啊！將聖經的話像食物一樣吃進去，默想它，消化吸收它，再用孩童般的信心，強烈的渴求它。三位一體的真上帝，就會在你心裡做工，緊抓住這應許，上帝會上尖下流地傾福於我們，超過我們所求所想的。 耶穌對我們說：「按著你們信心的大小，我就給你成就。」 THE INDWELLING CHRIST Scripture: "That Christ may dwell in your heart by faith."—EPH. iii. 14-19. The great privilege that separated Israel from other nations was this: they had God dwelling in their midst, His Home in the Holiest of all, in the tabernacle and the temple. The New Testament is the dispensation of the indwelling God in the heart of His people. As Christ said (John xiv. 21, 23), "If a man keep My words, he it is that loveth me; and My Father will love him, and I will love him, and we will come to him, and make our abode with him"—what Paul calls "The riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory." Or, as he says of himself, "Christ liveth in me." The Gospel—the dispensation of the indwelling Christ. How few Christians there are who believe or experience it! Come and let us listen to Paul's teaching as to the way into the experience of this crowning blessing of the Christian life. 1. "I bow my knees to the Father, that He would grant you." The blessing must come from the Father to the supplicant on the bended knee, for himself or for those for whom he labours. It is to be found in much prayer. 2. "That He would grant you according to the riches of His glory,"—something very special and Divine—"to be strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man," to separate from sin and the world, to yield to Christ as Lord and Master, and to live that life of love to Christ and keeping His commandments to which the promise has been given: "The Father and I will come to him, and make our abode with him." 3. "That Christ may dwell in your heart by faith." It is in the very nature of Christ, in His Divine omnipresence and love, to long for the heart to dwell in. As faith sees this and bows the knee, and pleads with God for this great blessing, it receives grace to believe that the prayer is answered; and in that faith accepts the wonderful gift, so long thirsted for—Christ dwelling in the heart by faith. 4. "That ye being rooted and grounded in love may be filled with all the fullness of God," as far as it is possible for man to experience it. Child of God, feed on the words the Holy Spirit has given here. Meditate, with strong desire and childlike faith, on what the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit have undertaken to work in you. Hold fast the confident assurance that God will do abundantly above what we can ask or think. Christ speaks to you: "According unto your faith be it unto you." www.glorypress.com