💜《神的心意-God’s Best Secrets》20220606『與耶穌同釘十字架-Crucified With Christ』— 慕安德烈 [Andrew Murray]

經文: 「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；並且我如今在肉身活著，是因信上帝的兒子而活，祂是愛我，為我捨己。」— [聖經·加拉太書 2章20節]

想到要背起沈重的十字架，活出耶穌的形象，就叫人覺得力不從心或力未能逮。但若從另外一個角度思想：「我們已經與耶穌同釘十字架」，我們就比較能覺得如釋重負，這條十字架窄路不致這麼難走。

就我們了解一點，亞當在伊甸園犯罪墮落(不順服上帝)，導致靈性上的死亡 – 與上帝永遠隔絕。我們這些亞當的後裔，也遺傳了亞當的罪性，在他的咒詛上有份，因此罪與死亡的權勢，每天都轄制著每個人。

耶穌道成肉身來到這世界，成為第二個亞當，祂為贖我們的罪，使我們在祂死的形狀上有份，因此我們可以坦然無懼地說：「我與耶穌同釘十字架。」耶穌代替世上眾人(包括你和我)被釘死在十架上，像被宰的羔羊獻為贖罪祭；祂復活的生命被升上高天，坐在父上帝寶座的右邊。因著與祂同死，就與祂同復活，祂的新生命就進到我們裡面。當我們緊緊抓住這真理，就知道現在活著的不再是我，乃是耶穌在我裡面活著，因此我從耶穌那裡，可以支取得勝罪惡、超越死亡的能力。

這兒揭示了一個極為寶貴的真理，然而許多基督徒卻不明白這真理，因為若不是假以時日，信徒是不容易明白它的。信徒要以基督的心為心，學習恨惡罪惡、喜愛真理，藉著聖靈的引導與幫助，擁有堅定的信心，每天與釘十架的耶穌同死同復活以及倒空自己，要祂復活的生命充滿我們，使我們有份於那得勝罪惡、超越死亡的能力，讓祂的同在成為我們的氣息，成為我們生活的方式。

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

『 Crucified With Christ 』

Scripture: “I have been crucified with Christ; yet I live; and yet no longer I, but Christ liveth in me.” — [Galatians 2:20]

The thought of fellowship with Christ in His bearing the cross, has often led to the vain attempt in our own power to follow Him, and bear His image. But this is impossible to man until he first learns to know something of what it means to say, “I have been crucified with Christ.”

Let us try to understand this. When Adam died, all his descendants died with him and in him. In his sin in Paradise, and in the spiritual death into which he fell, I had a share; I died in him. And the power of that sin and death, in which all his descendants share, works in every child of Adam every day.

Christ came as the second Adam. In His death on the cross, all who believe in Him had a share. Each one may say in truth, “I have been crucified with Christ.” As the representative of His people, He took them up with Him on the cross, and me too. The life that He gives is the crucified life in which He entered heaven, and was exalted to the throne, standing as a Lamb as it had been slain. The power of His death and life work in me, and as I hold fast the truth that I have been crucified with Him, and that now I myself live no more but Christ liveth in me, I receive power to conquer sin; the life that I have received from Him is a life that has been crucified and made free from the power of sin.

We have here a deep and very precious truth. Most Christians have but little knowledge of it. That knowledge is not gained easily or speedily. It needs a great longing in very deed to be dead to all sin. It needs a strong faith, wrought by the Holy Spirit, that the union with Christ crucified, that the fellowship of His cross, can day by day become our life. The life that He lives in heaven has its strength and its glory in the fact that it is a crucified life. And the life that He imparts to the believing disciple is even so a crucified life with its victory over sin and its power of access into God’s presence.

It is in very deed true that I no longer live, but Christ liveth in me as the Crucified one. As faith realizes and holds fast the fact that the crucified Christ lives in me, life in the fellowship of the cross becomes a possibility and a blessed experience.

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