經文: 「身上常帶著耶穌的死，使耶穌的生也顯明在我們身上。這樣看來，死是在我們身上發動，生卻在你們身上發動。」— [聖經·哥林多後書 4章10,12節]
保羅在這兒很大膽明確地描述他與主耶穌之間緊密契合的關係，雖然他如今在肉身活著，但復活的主卻是活在他心中，如同他在加拉太書2章20節所說：「我已經與基督同釘十字架；現在活著的，不再是我，乃是基督在我裡面活著。」他總是在身上帶著耶穌的死，因此耶穌的生也在他身上彰顯出來。屬靈的律就是這樣，當你讓耶穌的死在你身上發動出來。耶穌的死就會在你身上發動，同時耶穌的生也必會在你身上同時彰顯。
我們常提到住在耶穌裡，但我們忘記提醒信徒：「要住在釘死十字架的耶穌裡」。許多基督徒以為宣告與耶穌同釘十字架同死，只是在受洗的那一刻，之後就算完成這手續；豈不知基督徒是要天天與耶穌同死，每天都要背起自己的十字架捨己犧牲，這動作永遠是現在進行式而不是過去式。耶穌就是最好的榜樣，祂倒空自己，謙卑順服上帝到一個地步，願意死在十字架上，這樣捨己的心，博大的愛應成為基督徒身上的記號及行事為人的準則。
「身上要常常帶著耶穌的死」，這不但是上帝對保羅的呼召，也是對眾信徒的呼召，若我們真能對周遭的人付出至誠的關懷，願意犧牲自己的逸樂享受，甘心忍受一些不方便，為要贏得他們的靈魂，那麼這經文對我們而言就是一種實際，我們也能像保羅一樣說：「死在我們身上發動，但生也同時在我們身上發動。」是的，藉著與耶穌同死同受苦，上帝兒子復活的生命也將透過我們流露出來。
弟兄姐妹們，讓我們學會這個功課，我們所求告親近的主，是釘十字架吃苦受死的主，祂住在我們心裡，我們也住在祂裡面。
—《 神 的 心 意 》
[每日靈修 6月26日]
作者：慕安德烈
編輯：榮華興
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『 The Dying of The Lord Jesus 』
Scripture: “Always bearing about in the body the dying of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body.” “So then death worketh in us, but life in you.” — [2 Corinthians 4:10,12]
Paul here is very bold in speaking of the intimate union that there was between Christ living in him, and the life he lived in the flesh, with all its suffering. He had spoken (Galatians 2:20) of his being crucified with Christ, and Christ living in him. Here he tells how he was always bearing about in the body the dying of Jesus; it was through that that the life also of Jesus was manifested in his body. And he says that it was because the death of Christ was thus working in and through him, that Christ’s life could work in them.
We often speak of our abiding in Christ. But we forget that that means the abiding in a crucified Christ. Many believers appear to think that when once they have claimed Christ’s death in the fellowship of the cross, and have counted themselves as crucified with Him, that they may now consider it as past and done with. They do not understand that it is in the crucified Christ, and in the fellowship of His death, that they are to abide daily and unceasingly. The fellowship of the cross is to be the life of a daily experience, the self-emptying of our Lord, His taking the form of a servant, His humbling Himself and becoming obedient unto death, even the death of the cross-this mind that was in Christ is to be the disposition that marks our daily life.
“Always bearing about in the body the dying of Jesus.” This is what we are called to as much as Paul. If we are indeed to live for the welfare of men around us, if we are to sacrifice our ease and pleasure to win souls for our Lord, it will be true of us as of Paul, that we are able to say: Death worketh in us, but life in those for whom we pray and labour. It is in the fellowship of the sufferings of Christ, that the crucified Lord can live out and work out His life in us and through us.
Let us learn the lesson, that the abiding in Christ Jesus, for which we have so often prayed and striven, is nothing less than the abiding of the Crucified in us, and we in Him.
— God’s Best Secrets by Andrew Murray
「 26 June 」
