💜《神的心意-God’s Best Secrets》20220617『十字架的死-The Death of The Cross』— 慕安德烈 [Andrew Murray]

經文: 「耶穌大聲喊著說：父啊！我將我的靈魂交在祢手裏；說了這話，氣就斷了。」— [聖經·路加福音 23章46節]

如大衛在詩篇卅一篇5節所說，耶穌將自己的靈魂交託在天父上帝手中，每天向上帝支取所需要的能力。但上十字架卻是極為特殊的事件，絕非一件稀鬆平常的事可相比擬的，耶穌放棄自己的權利與能力，將自己交付予死亡的權勢並埋葬在墳墓裡，沈沒在黑黑的幽暗陰間，三天的時間無法獨立思考，無法與天父溝通，也無自由意志。祂將自己完全降服在天父的手中，相信在黑暗中，天父仍然看顧祂，並且到了時候，天父上帝要使祂復活。

我們若真與耶穌同釘十字架，就要每天憑信心披戴耶穌的死，這是信徒最需要的箴言；想想耶穌所講的話，那恨惡生命又願意捨棄生命的，必要得著生命。

我們從亞當那兒遺傳得來的生命，是有罪的老我生命，在它裡面毫無良善可言，我們必須完全地治死老我亞當，看世界算自己是死的，因為在老我這舊人裡面，一點聖潔都沒有，只有以自我為中心的自私慾望。

許多人想自欺欺人，一方面想要向上帝而活，一方面又不想讓老我死透，但這是不可能的事。就像一粒麥子，若不落在地裡死了，就不能結出子粒來。完全死透端賴向上帝的敬虔，屬靈生命的成長肇始於老我的治死。

有人問要怎樣才能做到如此地步？答案在於效法耶穌受死受苦的心志；我們像耶穌一樣將自己交託在上帝手中，雖不知新生命是如何長成，但我們就是像耶穌那樣說：「父啊！我將靈魂交在祢手中！」然後單單地倚靠上帝帶來復活的新生命，對那些信靠祂大能的人，上帝要成就祂的應許，使信徒經歷到使耶穌復活的大能，一樣可在我們身上運行。

這實在是信心真實的考驗，就是每天每時每刻都經歷上帝的同在，每天隨時隨地都與上帝有密切的溝通，藉著聖靈，體驗到復活的生命在我們體內復蘇成長。

—《 神 的 心 意 》
[每日靈修 6月17日]
作者：慕安德烈
編輯：榮華興

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『 The Death of The Cross 』

Scripture: “‘Father, into Thy hands I commit My spirit.’ And having said this, He gave up the ghost.” — [Luke 23:46]

Like David (Psalms 31:5), Christ had often committed His spirit into the hands of His Father for His daily life and need. But here is something new and very special. He gives up His spirit into the power of death, gives up all control over it, to sink down into the darkness and death of the grave, where He can neither think, nor pray, nor will. He surrenders himself to the utmost into the Father’s hands, trusting Him to care for Him in the dark, and in due time to raise Him up again.

If we have indeed died in Christ and are now in faith every day to carry about with us the death of our Lord Jesus, this word is the very one that we need. Just think once again what Christ meant when He said that we must hate and lose our life.

We died in Adam; the life we receive from him is death; there is nothing good or heavenly in us by nature. It is to this inward evil nature, to all the life that we have from this world, that we must die. There cannot be any thought of any real holiness, without totally dying to this self or “old man.” Many deceive themselves because they seek to be alive in God before they are dead to their own nature: a thing as impossible as it is for a grain of wheat to be alive before it dies. This total dying to self lies at the root of all true piety. The spiritual life must grow out of death.

And if we ask how we can do this, we find the answer in the mind in which Christ died. Like Him we cast ourselves upon God, without knowing how the new life is to be attained; but as we in fellowship with Jesus say, “Father, into Thy hands I commit my spirit,” and depend simply and absolutely upon God to raise us up into the new life, there will be fulfilled in us the wonderful promise of God’s Word, concerning the exceeding greatness of His power in us who believe, according to the mighty power which He wrought in Christ when He raised Him from the dead.

This indeed is the true rest of faith, that lives every day and every hour in the absolute dependence upon the continual and immediate quickening of the Divine life in us by God Himself through the Holy Spirit.

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