經文: 「基督在我裡面活著。」— (聖經·加拉太書 2章20節b)「基督是我們的生命。」(聖經·歌羅西書 3章4節a)
基督的生命遠勝一切，超過祂的教導、祂的工作，甚至超過祂的死亡。在上帝和世人的眼中，因著耶穌復活得勝的生命，才使得祂所說、所作、所受的苦賦於意義與價值。祂的心意就是要將這榮耀復活的生命賞賜給我們，使我們得以在世人面前活出這樣的生命。
「你們若有彼此相愛的心，眾人因此就認出你們是我的門徒了。」(約翰福音 13:35)，因著在聖靈裡的合一相通，使得猶太基督徒與希臘基督徒不分彼此，外邦人也因而覺得基督的門徒真有超凡的力量；因為從他們彼此相愛的生活裡，顯明了他們心中已充滿上帝大愛的明證。
傳道人若不能過與世人分別為聖的生活，那一定會錯失得著能力的祕訣，工作也會沒有果效。耶穌差遣門徒時曾說：「但聖靈降臨在你們身上，你們就必得著能力，並要在耶路撒冷、猶太全地，和撒瑪利亞，直到地極，作我的見證。」(使徒行傳 一8)，許多傳道人都這麼認定，要持續在主裡忠心擺上，不是靠一股熱情及衝動，或是一時浪漫的心願，乃是要有主同在的經驗與主愛的激勵，才能使他們能有始有終、不畏困難地至死忠心。
一些事情的源頭都源自於基督的生命，此言誠然不虛。無論是耶穌本身、耶穌的門徒或是保羅，都能證明此點；就是那一顆單純專注於耶穌的心，使得我們能忍受生活中的單調與平淡，能超越自我和斥退一切會攔阻我們追求耶穌豐盛生命的因素；並且常常提醒自己：每天都給耶穌一個勝利，給魔鬼一個失敗，不讓邪惡的勢力佔上風。
耶穌基督的生命是一切的一切，要做耶穌的僕人，一定要有這樣的生命；並且因著耶穌住在我們裡面，我們就能活出這樣的生命。當祂說：「我必與你同在。」(出埃及記 三12a)，祂的意思是：「我每天每時每刻要與你們同在，我要成為你們的喜樂與力量。」
哦！讓我們像挖寶一樣，挖掘這應許所隱藏的寶藏：「我要與你同在。」，願我們反覆思想這寶貴的真理，讓它成為我們生活的實際。
—《 神 的 心 意 》
(每日靈修 7月31日)
作者：慕安德烈
編輯：榮華興
『 The CHRIST Life 』
Scripture: “Christ is living in me;” — (Galatians 2:20b) “Christ is our life.” — (Colossians 3:4a)
Christ’s life was more than His teaching, more than His work, more even than His death. It was His life in the sight of God and man that gave value to what He said and did and suffered. And it is this life, glorified in the resurrection, that He imparts to His people, and enables them to live out before men.
“Hereby shall all men know that ye are My disciples, if ye love one another.” It was the life in the new brotherhood of the Holy Spirit that made both Jews and Greeks feel that there was some super-human power about Christ’s disciples; they gave living proof of the truth of what they said, that God’s love had come down and taken possession of them.
It has often been said of the missionary, that unless he lives out the Christ life on an entirely different level from that on which other men live, he misses the deepest secret of power and success in his work. When Christ sent His disciples forth, it was with the command: “Tarry till ye be endued with power from on high.” “Wait, and ye shall receive the power of the Holy Ghost, and be My witnesses to the ends of the earth.” Many a missionary has felt that it is not learning and not zeal, and not the willingness for self-sacrifice in Christ’s service, but the secret experience of the life hid with Christ in God, that enables him to meet and overcome every difficulty.
Everything depends upon the life with God in Christ being right. It was so with Christ, with the disciples, with Paul. It is the simplicity and intensity of our life in Christ Jesus, and of the life of Christ Jesus in us, that sustains a man in the daily drudgery of work, that makes him conquer over self and everything that could hinder the Christ life, and gives the victory over the powers of evil, and over the hearts from which the evil spirits have to be cast out.
The life is everything. It was so in Christ Jesus. It must be so in His servants. It can be so, because Christ Himself will live in us. When He spoke the word, “Lo, I am with you alway,” He meant nothing less than this: “Every day and all the day I am with you, the secret of your life, your joy, and your strength.”
Oh, to learn what hidden treasures are contained in the blessed words we love to repeat: “Lo, I am with you all the days.”
— God’s Best Secrets by Andrew Murray
「 31 July 」
