12月26日 行在光中

我們若在光明中行，如同神在光明中……他兒子耶穌的血也洗淨我們一切的罪。（約壹一7）

自覺脫離罪，得享自由；並不等於已蒙救贖，從罪中得釋放。若混淆二者，那是嚴重的錯誤。人必須重生，才知何為罪；而罪就是耶穌在十字架上所面對的。我從罪中得釋放的證據，就是認識我裡頭的罪。主耶穌的救恩使人有份於他絕對的完全，叫人知道罪是什麼。

聖靈使救恩在我們裡面生效，在非意識的領域，也在意識可及的領域；只有當我們體會聖靈在我們裡面那無可比擬的能力，我們才明白約翰一書一章7節的意思：“耶穌的血也洗淨我們一切的罪。”這不單指人意識到的罪，更是指因內住的聖靈而對罪有深切的認識。

我若像神一樣行在光中——不是自己良心的光，而是神的光——沒有任何遮掩，就必稀奇地領悟耶穌的血洗淨我一切的罪，以致神無法找出可指摘的。在我的意識中，他叫我對罪有一種敏銳而強烈的知覺。神的愛又在我裡面，叫我像聖靈恨罪一樣，恨惡一切與神聖潔相違的東西。行在光中的意思，就是每一件黑暗的事物，都驅策我更接近光的中樞。

祈禱◆潔淨我，噢，主啊，使我脫去靈裡一切的罪汙，願你那充滿光輝的美善，今天臨到我身上。

December 26 Placed In The Light

“If we walk in the light, as He is in the light, the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin.” 1 John 1:7

To mistake conscious freedom from sin for deliverance from sin by the Atonement is a great error. No man knows what sin is until he is born again. Sin is what Jesus Christ faced on Calvary. The evidence that I am delivered from sin is that I know the real nature of sin in me. It takes the last reach of the Atonement of Jesus Christ, that is, the impartation of His absolute perfection, to make a man know what sin is.

The Holy Spirit applies the Atonement to us in the unconscious realm as well as in the realm of which we are conscious, and it is only when we get a grasp of the unrivalled power of the Spirit in us that we understand the meaning of 1 John 1:7, “the blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth us from all sin.” This does not refer to conscious sin only, but to the tremendously profound understanding of sin which only the Holy Ghost in me realizes.

If I walk in the light as God is in the light, not in the light of my conscience, but in the light of God – if I walk there, with nothing folded up, then there comes the amazing revelation, the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses me from all sin so that God Almighty can see nothing to censure in me. In my consciousness it works with a keen poignant knowledge of what sin is. The love of God at work in me makes me hate with the hatred of the Holy Ghost all that is not in keeping with God's holiness. To walk in the light means that everything that is of the darkness drives me closer into the centre of the light.