💜《神的心意-God’s Best Secrets》20220605『與十字架聯合-The Fellowship of The Cross』— 慕安德烈 [Andrew Murray]

經文: 「你們當以基督耶穌的心為心。」— [聖經·腓立比書 2章5節]

這兒保羅指出耶穌的心腸：「祂虛己取了奴僕的形象，謙卑自己，存心順服，以至於死，且死在十字架上。」這就是耶穌的心，至極的謙卑，甚至捨了自己的生命，就是這樣的大愛感化、激勵了我們，使我們願意擁抱十字架與耶穌的死聯合。

保羅說：「在基督裡若有什麼勸勉，愛心有什麼安慰。」(腓立比書 2章1a節)-安慰者要向信徒顯明祂的同在；「在聖靈裡有什麼交通。」(腓立比書 2章1b節)-因著聖靈的大能，信徒能支取耶穌的生命並呼吸祂的氣息，將耶穌的生命在生活中彰顯出來。

當信徒誠心要活出這樣的生命時，就深切察覺出與耶穌緊緊的相連；他們學習領悟與耶穌同釘十字架，「老我」與耶穌同死的滋味；換句話說，在耶穌裡我們向罪是死的，向上帝卻是活的。這意味著耶穌活在我們裡面，我們的肉體與肉體的情慾，都與耶穌同釘十字架，連帶的也把對世界的追求和今生的驕傲，都釘死在十架上。

他們屬靈的生命，將逐漸地進深並更上層樓，回應上帝的呼召，活出向罪死、向上帝活的生命。每個信徒，按著自己靈命的深淺不同，都帶著屬靈的印記，願意學習走十字架的道路及犧牲捨己，就像耶穌以至極的謙卑，順服上帝的旨意，完成天父所託付的使命。

學習順服絕不是一件容易的功課，也不是一蹴可及的-這是十字架的學校，它會帶領你更深入了解救贖的真意，藉著個人親身的經歷，體會十字架上耶穌的受苦、受死，順服以至於死，為完成上帝旨意而付出的代價。

—《 神 的 心 意 》
[每日靈修 6月5日]
作者：慕安德烈
編輯：榮華興

『 The Fellowship of The Cross 』

Scripture: “Have this wind in you, which was also in Christ Jesus” — [Philippians 2:5]

Paul here tells us what that mind was in Christ: He emptied Himself; He took the form of a servant; He humbled Himself, even to the death of the cross. It is this mind that was in Christ, the deep humility that gave up His life to the very death, that is to be the spirit that animates us. It is thus that we shall prove and enjoy the blessed fellowship of His cross.

Paul had said (ver. I): “If there is any comfort in Christ,” — the Comforter was come to reveal His real presence in them — “if any fellowship of the Spirit,” — it was in this power of the Spirit that they were to breathe the Spirit of the crucified Christ, and manifest His disposition in the fellowship of the cross in their lives.

As they strove to do this, they would feel the need of a deeper insight into their real oneness with Christ. They would learn to appreciate the truth that they hnd been crucified with Christ, that their “old man” had been crucified, and that they had died to sin in Christ’s death and were now living to God in His life. They would learn to know what it meant that the crucified Christ lived in them, and that they had crucified the flesh with its affections and lusts. It was because the crucified Jesus lived in them that they could live crucified to the world.

And so they would gradually enter more deeply into the meaning and the power of their high calling to live as those who were dead to sin and the world and self. Each in his own measure would bear about in his life the marks of the cross, with its sentence of death on the flesh, with its hating of the self life and its entire denial of self, with its growing conformity to the crucified Redeemer in His deep humility and entire surrender of His will to the life of God.

It is no easy school and no hurried learning-this school of the cross. But it will lead to a deeper apprehension and a higher appreciation of the redemption of the cross through the personal experience of the fellowship of the cross.

— God’s Best Secrets by Andrew Murray
「 5 June 」