10月20日
上帝的旨意是我的心愿吗？
“
神的旨意就是要你们成为圣洁。”帖前4：3
神是否愿意使我成圣并不是一个问题，而是这是我的心愿吗？我是否愿意让神将所有赎罪已经成功的事做在我的里面？我是否愿意让耶稣成为我的圣洁，让耶稣的生命在我的肉身里彰显？当心你会说：“噢，我渴望成圣。”其实，你并非如此，你要停止渴望，付出实际行动达到预定目标。“我两手空空。”要以绝对的信心接受耶稣基督成为你的圣洁，耶稣救赎的伟大奇迹将在你里面成为真实。耶稣所成就的一切,因着神充满爱的礼物白白的给了你。作为一个得救和得以成圣的灵魂，我的态度是完全谦卑的圣洁（并没有骄傲的圣洁这件事），这圣洁是基于痛苦难忍的悔改，及无法言说的羞愧和降卑；同时令人惊异地认识到，当我根本对他毫不在意时，神的爱将自己托付给我，他为我的得救和成圣完成了一切（参看罗5:8）。保罗说没有一件事“能叫我们与 神的爱隔绝；这爱是在我们的主基督耶稣里的。”（罗8:39）
成圣使我与耶稣基督合一，并在他里面与神合一，这只能借由基督的赎罪才能做到。不要把效果当成原因。在我里面的效果是顺服、事奉和祷告，这是出于无法用言语表达的感谢和崇拜，为著因赎罪而在我里面做出的非凡的成圣。
October
20 Is God’s Will My Will?
“This
is the will of God, even your sanctification.” 1 Thessalonians 4:3
It is not a
question of whether God is willing to sanctify me; is it my will? Am I willing
to let God do in me all that has been made possible by the Atonement? Am I
willing to let Jesus be made sanctification to me, and to let the life of Jesus
be manifested in my mortal flesh? Beware of saying – Oh, I am longing to be
sanctified. You are not, stop longing and make it a matter of transaction –
“Nothing in my hands I bring.” Receive Jesus Christ to be made sanctification
to you in implicit faith, and the great marvel of the Atonement of Jesus will
be made real in you. All that Jesus made possible is made mine by the free
loving gift of God on the ground of what He performed, my attitude as a saved
and sanctified soul is that of profound humble holiness (there is no such thing
as proud holiness), a holiness based on agonizing repentance and a sense of
unspeakable shame and degradation; and also on the amazing realization that the
love of God commended itself to me in that while I cared nothing about Him, He completed
everything for my salvation and sanctification (see Rom. 5:8. R.V.). No wonder
Paul says nothing is “able to separate us from the love of God, which is in
Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Sanctification
makes me one with Jesus Christ, and in Him one with God, and it is done only
through the superb Atonement of Christ. Never put the effect as the cause. The
effect in me is obedience and service and prayer, and is the out come of
speechless thanks and adoration for the marvellous sanctification wrought out in
me because of the Atonement.
