經文: 「因為你們已經死了，你們的生命與基督一同藏在上帝裡面。基督是我們的生命，祂顯現的時候，你們也要與祂一同顯現在榮耀裡。」— (聖經·歌羅西書 3章3-4節)
讓我們對活在基督裡的新生命，做個歸納性的總結，看看我們是否抓住這本書信息的重點，以及我們是否真心想擁有那樣的新生命。
保羅對歌羅西的信徒說：「你們已經死了，你們的生命與耶穌基督一同藏在上帝裡面。」惟有上帝的靈可以幫助我們，真正抓住這真理，瞭解其內涵，並真正應用與耶穌同釘十字架，同死同埋葬的經歷。在我們實際的現實生活中，藉由老我與耶穌同「死」，耶穌的「生」也在我們身上發動。也就是說，每一位接受耶穌，擁有屬靈新生命的基督徒，可以藉著宣告老我與耶穌同死，讓寶座羔羊的復活大能，充分運行在我們新人體內。
為何許多上帝的兒女，靈命沒有長大成熟，少有進步？因他們不明白那死在十架上的耶穌，現在正活在他們心中，那新生命正與他們一起藏在上帝裡面，他們必須每天有安靜的時間，從上帝那裡得著新鮮的靈糧，靈命得著更新，想到這生命不是把持在我們手中，乃是藏在上帝那兒，那是多麼令人慶幸感恩的事！基督和聖靈要施恩給每一個謙卑信靠祂的基督徒，讓這新生命不斷地成長茁壯！
再想到我四周的基督徒朋友，他們的生命也和耶穌一起藏在上帝裡面，就有一種命脈相通、血濃於水的感覺，這是一種何等以愛相繫的情誼！我們可以一起同心禱告，彼此相愛。
你的生命和耶穌基督一起藏在上帝裡…基督是我們的生命。喔，聖靈啊！讓我依靠你，讓這豐盛的生命，成為我信仰實際的經歷！
—《 神 的 心 意 》
(每日靈修 12月7日)
作者：慕安德烈
編輯：榮華興
(圖片版權屬「上帝之子-SON OF GOD」所有，在此僅供分享福音用途。)
『 CHRIST Our Life 』
Scripture: “For you died to this life, and your real life is hidden with Christ in God. And when Christ, who is your life, is revealed to the whole world, you will share in all his glory.” — (Colossians 3:3-4)
Let us now sum up what has been said about the new life we are to live in Christ. Let us see if we have grasped the lesson this book would teach us, and whether we really intend to live this life.
St. Paul writes to the Colossians: “Ye died, and your life is hid with Christ in God.” Only God’s Spirit can enable the believer to grasp and appropriate the truth that he was actually crucified and died with Christ. The new life he receives in Christ through the Spirit is life out of death. In Christ as the Lamb in the midst of the throne, the power of that life is shown as a crucified life in each one who has received it. The Holy Spirit gives me the assurance that I died with Christ, and the power of His death works in me.
And of Christ’s life: “Your life is hid with Christ in God.” This is what Christ said in the last night: “Ye shall know that I am in the Father and ye in Me”—with Him in the Father. My life is safely hid with Christ in God, and from there I each day by faith receive it anew through the working of the Holy Spirit.
Is this not the reason why so many of God’s children make so little progress? They do not know that the life of Christ who died on the cross and now lives in heaven is truly THEIR life hid in God, and must daily be received afresh from God in the quiet hour. What joy to know my spiritual life is not in my keeping, but is hid in God. Christ and the Holy Spirit will grant to each humble believing child of God to receive this new life.
What joy to know that the new life of God’s children around me is also hid with Christ in God! What a bond of union this will be. How sincerely we should love each other and pray for each other.
“Your life is hid with Christ in God . . . Christ is our life.”
O Spirit of God, let me rely upon Thee to make this true in my life!
— God’s Best Secrets by Andrew Murray
「 7 December 」
