3月21日 一己的權益還是與主同死？

我已經與基督同釘十字架。（加二20）

屬靈上的一個迫切需要，就是向罪宣判死亡。就是在一切感情上、理智上，有一個新的信念，遂向罪下判決。這罪就是為自己的權益所持的主權。保羅說：“我已經與基督同釘十字架。”他不是說：“我決定效法基督。”或“我努力跟隨基督。”而是“我已經自視與他同死了。”每逢我作這屬靈的抉擇，並付諸實行，那麼基督在十架上為我成就的，便在我裡面成全了。我自願的順服神，讓聖靈把耶穌基督的聖潔，加在我身上。

“但我如今活著……”我依然存在，但生命的主流——那支配我性情的，卻急劇地改變了。人的肉身依然，可是昔日撒旦的主權已毀掉了。“我如今在肉身活著……”這不是我想望中的生命，或祈求要得的生命，而是現金活著的，這個別人可見的生命，“是因信神的兒子而活”。這信心不是保羅對耶穌基督的信心，而是神兒子所分與他的信心。

“信神的兒子（或作神兒子的信）。”不再是相信信心，乃是超越一切觀感的規限，如同神兒子的信心。

祈禱◆噢，主啊，我讚美你，透過基督耶穌我們的主，我們所走的路都滿有憐憫、恩慈、恩典和奇跡；但願我對你和你的作為更加敏銳，我那感恩的心也更像基督。

March 21 Interest Or Identification?

“I have been crucified with Christ.” Galatians 2:20

The imperative need spiritually is to sign the death warrant of the disposition of sin, to turn all emotional impressions and intellectual beliefs into a moral verdict against the disposition of sin, viz., my claim to my right to myself. Paul says – “I have been crucified with Christ”; he does not say – “I have determined to imitate Jesus Christ,” or, “I will endeavour to follow Him” – but – “I have been identified with Him in His death.” When I come to such a moral decision and act upon it, then all that Christ wrought for me on the Cross is wrought in me. The free committal of myself to God gives the Holy Spirit the chance to impart to me the holiness of Jesus Christ.

“. . . nevertheless I live. . . .” The individuality remains, but the mainspring, the ruling disposition, is radically altered. The same human body remains, but the old satanic right to myself is destroyed.

“And the life which I now live in the flesh . . . ,” not the life which I long to live and pray to live, but the life I now live in my mortal flesh, the life which men can see, “I live by the faith of the Son of God.” This faith is not Paul’s faith in Jesus Christ, but the faith that the Son of God has imparted to him – “the faith of the Son of God.” It is no longer faith in faith, but faith which has overleapt all conscious bounds, the identical faith of the Son of God.