經文: 「我來了，是要叫人得生命，並且得的更豐盛。」— (聖經·約翰福音 10章10b節)
活潑健壯的生命，和軟弱有病的生命，顯然大有不同。保羅提到哥林多教會的信徒，說他們是屬世的，而非屬靈的，因為他們像是屬靈的嬰孩，不能吃乾糧，只能喝靈奶，不能瞭解福音的真義。(哥林多前書 三；希伯來書 五)
有不少基督徒靈裡遲鈍，從未離開耶穌基督道理的開端，雖說是基督徒，卻與一般世人沒有兩樣。然而，也有少數基督徒，領受豐富的恩典，活出基督的生命，這可從教會歷史中發現。今天願意完全為主而活，並且在意得著屬靈豐盛生命的基督徒，也是鳳毛麟角，但他們卻能見證主耶穌的榮美，誠如經上所記：「充充滿滿的有恩典有真理。」(約翰福音 一14)「從祂豐滿的恩典裡我們都領受了，而且恩上加恩。」(約翰福音 一16)
講員的信息，應該清楚講明上帝在基督耶穌裡有何等豐盛的恩典，讓基督徒不滿足自己靈裡的貧乏，而羨慕並且相信，那靈裡豐盛的生命是為他們預備的。
親愛的弟兄姐妹們，請捫心自問，我們活出耶穌要賞賜給我們的豐盛生命嗎？我們有沒有在愛耶穌、領人歸主、榮耀主名的事上，活出這樣的生命力？若是沒有，向上帝求，祂就要堅固你的信心，賜你足夠的智慧與能力，堅立你手中所做的善事。
喔！把耶穌看成你的良人，懷中的珍寶，每天都與祂相近相親，視單獨與祂相處為每天必修的功課，藉此，聖靈要教導你如何得著豐盛的生命，而能尊榮祂的聖名。
—《 神 的 心 意 》
(每日靈修 11月8日)
作者：慕安德烈
編輯：榮華興
『 The Twofold Life 』
Scripture: “I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.” — (John 10:10b)
Everyone can understand the difference between life that is; weak and sickly, and life that has abundant vitality. Thus St. Paul speaks of the Christian life of the Corinthians as not spiritual but carnal, as of young children in Christ incapable of assimilating strong meat, or of understanding the deeper truths of the Gospel (see 1 Cor. iii. and Heb. v.). There are some, the majority of Christians, who never advance beyond first principles. They are dull of hearing and remain carnal Christians. There are others again, a minority, who indeed show forth the abundant riches of grace. All through the history of the Church we find this difference. In our day, too, the number is small of those who seek to live wholly for God, and being spiritually minded have large thoughts of the abundant life there is in Christ. They witness to the glory of Christ “full of grace and truth.” “For of His fulness we all received, and grace for grace” (John i. 16).
The preacher’s aim should be, so to declare the fulness of God’s grace in Jesus Christ as to make Christians ashamed of the poverty of their spiritual life, and to encourage them to believe that “life abundant” in the fulness of the Spirit is for them.
Dear Reader, ask yourself if you are living such an abundant life as Jesus came to bestow? Is it manifest in your love to the Saviour and in the abundant fruit you bear to the glory of God in soul-winning? If not, pray God to strengthen your faith that He is able to make all grace abound toward you that you always having all sufficiency may abound in every good work. Let Jesus be precious to you, and daily communion with Him indispensable. He will teach you by His Holy Spirit to honor Him by an abundant life.
— God’s Best Secrets by Andrew Murray
「 8 November 」
