💜《神的心意-God’s Best Secrets》20220710『被釘的基督-Christ Crucified』— 慕安德烈 [Andrew Murray]

經文: 「因這十字架，就我而論，世界已經釘在十字架上；就世界而論，我已經釘在十字架上。」— [聖經·加拉太書 6章14節]

十字架是耶穌最高的榮耀，因著十字架，耶穌榮耀了天父，天父也榮耀了祂。啟示錄第5章寫到一切萬物，包括天使及被贖的選民，都圍在寶座前敬拜讚美被殺的羔羊。耶穌成就天父上帝的旨意，犧牲生命來拯救世人，祂豈不配得最高的榮耀，與衷心的感謝讚美？

當耶穌向門徒說：「我就常與你們同在。」(馬太福音 28章20節)，這就是那位雙手有釘痕的救主所應許的。那些信靠祂，要支取祂應許能力的信徒們，要切記一件事，就是答應我們要每天每時每刻與我們同在的，不是別人乃是愛我們又為我們釘十架的耶穌，我們的救主。

為什麼我們覺得很難感受體察到上帝的同在呢？更別想能享受祂同在的甘甜與喜樂了。原因之一是我們很少去想到耶穌曾在十字架受苦受死，也很少想到要將我們的「老我」，與耶穌同釘十字架，並把自己的「邪情私慾」，也一併釘在十字架上。是的，親愛的，我們太少思想到這一點，就是這世界對我們而言，已被釘在十字架上，世界的潮流風尚應該對我們不再具有吸引力。我們也太少效法古代聖徒，學習像他們一樣棄絕自己，以基督的心為心。我們更少像耶穌一樣倒空自己，取了奴僕的形象，為順服上帝的旨意，以至於死在十字架上。

是的，讓我們領悟一個真理，就是這位釘十字架的耶穌，願意每天每時每刻與我們同行談心，也因著祂的同在，我們有分於祂的能力，能夠活出平安、喜樂的人生，因此我們可以大聲的宣告：「我已經與耶穌同釘十字架，這位釘十字架的耶穌，也活在我們的心裡面。」

—《 神 的 心 意 》
[每日靈修 7月10日]
作者：慕安德烈
編輯：榮華興

[圖片版權屬「禱告時光」所有，在此僅供分享福音用途。]

『 Christ Crucified 』

Scripture: “God forbid that I should glory, save in the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world hath been crucified unto me, and I unto the world.” — [Galatians 6:14]

Christ’s highest glory is His Cross. It was in this that He glorified the Father, and the Father glorified Him. It was as the Lamb slain in the midst of the throne that in that wonderful fifth chapter of Revelation He receives the worship of the ransomed and the angels and all creation. And it is as the Crucified One that His servants have learned to say: “God forbid that I should glory save in the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which I am crucified to the world.” Is it not reasonable that Christ’s highest glory should be our only glory too?

When the Lord Jesus said to His disciples, “Lo, I am with you alway,” it was as the Crucified One, Who had shown them His hands and His feet, that He gave the promise. And to each one who seeks to claim the promise, it is of the first importance that he should realize: It is the crucified Jesus who promises, who offers, to be with me every day.

May not this be one reason why we find it so difficult to expect and enjoy the abiding presence? – because we do not glory in the Cross by which we are crucified to the world. We have been crucified with Christ; our “old man was crucified with Him”; “they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its affections and lusts,” – and yet how little we have learned that the world has been crucified to us, and that we are free from its power. How little we have learned, as those who are crucified with Christ, to deny ourselves, to have the mind that was in Christ, when He emptied Himself, and took the form of a servant, and humbled Himself and became obedient even to the death of the Cross.

Oh, let us learn the lesson, it is the crucified Christ who comes to walk with us every day, and in Whose power we too are to live the life that can say: “I have been crucified with Christ”; “Christ crucified lives in me.”

— God’s Best Secrets by Andrew Murray
「 10 July 」