💜《神的心意-God’s Best Secrets》20220823『上帝的羔羊 The Lamb of God』— 慕安德烈 [Andrew Murray]

經文: 「體貼肉體的，就是死；體貼聖靈的，乃是生命、平安。」(聖經·羅馬書 8章6節)「聖靈就是上帝藉著耶穌基督我們救主厚厚澆灌在我們身上的。」(聖經·提多書 3章6節)

        借着上帝的羔羊-耶穌基督-對天父完全的順服，上帝的心意得以成就，耶穌成為墮落人類的心靈之光，祂的柔和謙卑也得以成形在祂兒女的身上。想到這位榮耀的上帝，竟然願意如此親近平凡的世人，就感到倍受恩寵及無比安慰。

        「釘死老我，向上帝而活。」，是痛苦的，但也是蒙福的；是椎心的，但也是快樂的；因為無論何往何在，都可以求聖靈內住我心，管理我全人，並驅走黑暗。除上帝以外，無人可以將老我治死；除上帝以外，也無人可以奪取我心；陰間的勢力無法轄制我，光明的天堂卻臨近我，因為上帝與我同在。願我每一句話、每個眼神動作、每個思想，都在聖靈的管制下，而不是出於自己的私意，讓我的靈魂完全安息在祂手中，祂的謙卑忍耐、榮美形像，也深深吸引我的心，趕赴那羔羊的喜宴。 

        這羔羊的喜宴，象徵著我與耶穌之間緊密相連的開端；換句話說，那是我心中永恆愛之火花的誕生，我一旦得著祂的內住，我就感到我前所未有的平安喜樂。 若你完全降服耶穌，選擇跟隨耶穌腳蹤，走那忍耐、謙卑、柔順的道路，你就得著新生命；反之，若你偏離這道路，選擇歸榮耀給自己，那麼你就是走向通往死亡的道路，因為若不是由聖靈掌管的新生命，而是由情慾老我掌管的舊生命，最終必走向死亡。 

「上帝的羔羊啊！祢有能力讓我討厭敗壞的老我，嚮往祢的柔和謙卑，願祢的叮嚀常響在我耳際：「我心裡柔和謙卑，你們當負我的軛，學我的樣式。」(馬太福音 11章29節) 就是因為耶穌基督絕對的謙卑，上帝才高舉祂；惟有我們不斷的渴慕那柔和謙卑的生命，我們才能找到靈裡真正的安息。奉主耶穌基督聖名，阿們。」

—《 神 的 心 意 》
[每日靈修 8月23日]
作者：慕安德烈
編輯：榮華興

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『 The Lamb of God 』

Scripture: “For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.” — (Romans 8:6) “Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;” — (Titus 3:6)

        “The Lamb of God is the Eternal Love and Meekness that left the bosom of His Father to be Himself the resurrection of Meekness and Love in the darkened souls of fallen men. What a comfort it is to think that this Lamb of God, Who is the glory of heaven, is as near to us, as truly in the midst of us, as He is in the midst of heaven.”

        “Oh, sweet resignation of myself to God! Happy death of every self-desire; blessed unction of a holy life; the only driver of all evil out of my soul, be thou my guide and governor, wherever I go. Nothing but thou canst take me from myself, nothing but thou canst lead me to God; hell has no power where thou art ; nor can heaven hide itself from thee. Oh, may I never indulge a thought, bring forth a word, or do anything for myself or others, but under the influence of thy blessed inspiration. The sight, though distant, of this Sabbath of the soul, freed from the miserable labour of self, to rest in Meekness, Humility, Patience and Resignation under the Spirit of God is like the joyful voice of the Bridegroom to my soul, and leaves no wish in me but to be at the marriage-feast of the Lamb.”

        “This marriage-feast signifies the entrance into the highest state of union that can be between God and the soul in this life. In other words, it is the birthday of the Spirit of Love in our souls, which, whenever we attain it, will feast our souls with such peace and joy in God, as will blot out the remembrance of everything that we called joy or peace before.

        “Thither you must certainly come, if you keep to this path of Meekness, Humility and Patience, under a full Resignation to God. But if you go aside from it, let the occasion seem ever so glorious, it is only preparing you for a harder death. For die you must to all and everything that you have worked or done under any other spirit but that of the Meekness of the Lamb.

“As the Lamb of God He has all power to bring forth in us a weariness of our fallen state, and a willingness to fall from it into His Meekness and Humility.”

Let us listen to the blessed Lamb of God as He calls us: “Learn of Me, for I am meek and lowly of heart.” It was for His humility that God so highly exalted Him. It is only as our life becomes the unceasing expression of a longing for His humility and meekness that we shall find rest to our souls.

— God’s Best Secrets by Andrew Murray
「 23 August 」