Daily Devotion - Apr 9 - ?}|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 以西結書的新約 經文: 「我必用清水灑在你們身上，你們就潔淨了。我要潔淨你們，使你們脫離一切的污穢，棄掉一切的偶像。我也要賜給你們一個新心，將新靈放在你們裡面，使你們順從我的律例，遵行我的典章。」（以西結書卅六：25∼29） 如同在耶利米書一般，在以西結書中也有類似的應許，就是上帝要潔淨我們的罪，使我們能順從祂的律例，遵行祂的典章。上帝曾對耶利米說：「我要將律法寫在你的心版上，使你敬畏我，不離開我。」再次祂向以西結說：「我要使你們能順從我的律例，遵行我的典章。」 和舊約不同的是，在新約裡，上帝賜給人力量能遵行祂的律例典章，這就是新約的特色。 「那裡罪多，恩典就更顯多。」我們可以與上帝完全連結，而且全然順服祂，但為何有這麼多人不曾經歷這樣的生活？答案很簡單，因為這樣的真理，眾人不相信，也沒有被傳講，也就沒有人期望這應許能被實現。 然而在羅馬書八章1∼4節，我們看到保羅這樣抱怨：「我真是苦啊！誰能救我脫離這取死的身體呢？」後來他可以這樣感謝上帝，說：「如今那些在基督耶穌裡的就不定罪了，因為賜生命聖靈的律，使我脫離罪和死的律了。」所以那些順從聖靈行事者，就能行出律法所要求的行為準則。 話說回來，為什麼這麼少人能有這樣得勝的見證？要如何才能達到這地步？惟一的方法就是相信全能的上帝，藉著奇妙大能，成就祂的應許，因為祂說：「我怎麼說，就怎麼做到。」讓我們相信祂的話語永遠算數：「我要潔淨你的污穢，使你能順從我的律例，遵行我的典章。」 讓我們相信上帝給了這樣的應許，祂也要負責成就它；而且超乎我們理解的範疇，祂要按我們信心的大小予以成就！只要我們信就必得著，「只要我們完全信賴上帝的應許，祂的能力就保守我們到底。」讓我們今天就來經驗上帝話話的真實性吧！ THE NEW COVENANT IN EZEKIEL Scripture: "I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean-from all your filthiness will I cleanse you. And I will put Jlfj Spirit within you, and cause you to -walk in My statutes, and ye shall keep My judgment."—EZEK. xxxvi. 25-27. Here we have the same promise as in Jeremiah, the promise of such a heart cleansing from sin, and such a gift of the Spirit in the new heart, as would secure their walking in His statutes and keeping His judgments. Just as in Jeremiah God had said: "I will put My law in their inward parts, and put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from Me," so here: "I will cause you to walk in My Statutes, and ye shall keep My judgments." In contrast with the old covenant, in which there was no power to enable them to continue in God's law, the great mark of the new covenant would be a Divine power enabling them to walk in His Statutes and keep His judgments. "Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound," working whole-hearted allegiance and obedience. Why is this so little experienced ? The answer is very simple: The promise is not believed, is not preached; its fulfilment is not expected. And yet how clearly we have it in a passage like Romans viii. 1-4. There the man who had complained of the power "bringing him into captivity under the law of sin," thanks God that he is "now in Christ Jesus"; and that "the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made him free from the law of sin and death," so that the requirement of the law is fulfilled in all who walk after the Spirit. Once again, why are there so few who can give such testi¬mony, and what is to be clone to attain to it? Just one thing is needed—the faith in an omnipotent God, who will by His won¬derful power do what He has promised: "I the Lord have spoken it, and will do it." Oh, let us begin to believe that the promise will come true: "I will cleanse you from all your filthiness, and ye shall be clean; and will cause you to walk in My statutes, and ye shall keep them." Let us believe all that God here promises, and God will do it. To an extent beyond all power of thought, God has made His great and glorious promises dependent on our faith! And the promises will work that faith as we believe them. "According to your faith, be it unto you." Let us this very day put it to the proof. www.glorypress.com