經文: 「然而，叫耶穌從死裡復活者的靈若住在你們心裡，那叫基督耶穌從死裡復活的，也必藉著住在你們心裡的聖靈，使你們必死的身體又活過來。」— (聖經·羅馬書 8章11節)
為何使徒們無法用人類天然的理解力，明白救恩的奧秘，而要等到受了火的洗，重生之後，才能領悟救贖的真義？那是因為耶穌一生的傳奇，若只停留在頭腦的知識階段，就算不了什麼，只有在信徒受了聖靈的洗，將這救恩的意義刻在心版上，耶穌的救贖才發生意義。
所以人類無論在文學或科學界，有多偉大的成就，他對救恩的奧秘，還是陌生的；只有在他心靈的眼睛被打開後，他才能欣然接受耶穌道成肉身，為贖罪而死的真理。因為聖靈的工作就是要在人裡面做心意更新變化的工作，帶來老我的死亡與屬靈的新生；所以人若非重生，經歷內在一百八十度的轉變，以及悔改認罪的過程，就無法透澈領悟耶穌為何降世為人，又為何被釘十架的真意。
聖經中的書信，常常揭示一項真理：我們的得救在乎耶穌的生命移植到我們心裡，而這完完全全都是「聖靈直接的工作」，使人堅定不移相信「因信稱義」的真理，並且全心全意接受耶穌為個人的救主。對重生得救的基督徒而言，耶穌所講的話，或是使徒所說的勉勵，都能激勵門徒的信心，挑旺門徒的愛心，而這要如何做到呢？就是要不斷傾聽內在聖靈的聲音，因為當初信徒靠聖靈「入門」，接著仍然要靠聖靈「行事」，因為凡屬耶穌所教導的真理或經訓，沒有一樣不與聖靈有關，惟有藉著內住的聖靈持續引導，我們方能活出耶穌的生命。
我們需謹記聖靈的工作，就是向我們內心啟示耶穌是誰，祂不是歷史上的偉人而已，祂是全人類的救主，以馬內利的上帝，祂樂意住在人的心中，成形在我們心裡面，並藉著我們行善做討天父喜悅的事。花時間默想這真理，並完全委身降服這真理，在生活中彰顯上帝的愛，這是成為真基督徒的秘訣。
—《 神 的 心 意 》
(每日靈修 8月11日)
作者：慕安德烈
編輯：榮華興
『 Our Death and Life in CHRIST 』
Scripture: “But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.” — (Romans 8:11)
“Why could not the Apostles, who had been eye-witnesses to the whole process of Christ, testify with their human apprehension the truth of such things, till they were baptized with fire and born again of the Spirit? It is because the truth of such things, or the mysteries of Christ’s process as know-able by man, are nothing else in themselves, but those very things which are done by this heavenly fire and Spirit of God in our souls. Therefore every man, however able in all kinds of human literature, must be an entire stranger to all the mysteries of Gospel redemption till they are verified, fulfilled and witnessed to by that which is found and enjoyed of the whole process of Christ in his soul. As the work of the Spirit consists in altering that which is the most radical in the soul, bringing forth a new spiritual death and a new spiritual life, it must be true, that no one can know or believe the mysteries of Christ’s redeeming power, but only and solely by an inward and experimental finding and feeling the operation of them, in that new death and new life, both of which must be effected in the soul of man, or Christ is not known as its salvation.
“Behmen prefixed as a motto to most of his epistles the words of Scripture: that our salvation is in the life of Jesus Christ in us. This truth of truths fully possessed and firmly adhered to, turns the whole faith of man to a Christ that can nowhere be a Saviour to him but as essentially born in the inmost spirit of his soul by the immediate inspiration and working power of the Holy Spirit within him. To such a man the words of Christ and His Apostles fall like a fire into him. And what is it they kindle there? A holy flame of love, to be always with, always attending to, that Christ and his Holy Spirit within Him, which alone can make him to be and do all that which the words of Christ and His Apostles have taught. For there is no possibility of being like-minded with Christ in anything that He taught, or having the truth of one Christian virtue, but by the nature and Spirit of Christ essentially living in us.”
We need ever to remember that the great work of the Holy Spirit is to reveal Christ in us.. Not to the mind as a matter of knowledge, but in the heart and life, communicating to us the very death and life of our Lord. It is thus that Christ is formed in us, has His abode in us, and works in us and through us all that is well-pleasing to the Father. Take time to yield yourself to this blessed truth; in it lies the true secret of the Christian life.
— God’s Best Secrets by Andrew Murray
「 11 August 」
