0115 你穿过白衣而行吗？
所以，我们借着洗礼归入死，和祂一同埋葬，原是叫我们一举一动有新生的样式，像基督借着父的荣耀从死里复活一样。《罗马书 6:4》
没有人能不经历「白色葬礼」，就是旧生命的埋葬，而经历完全的成圣。如果从未经历通过死亡而改变的时刻，那么成圣将永远只是一个遥不可及的梦想。必须有「白色葬礼」，就是死亡随着只有一次性的复活，复活进入耶稣基督的生命。没有什么能打败这样的生命。它有着与神合一的唯一目的， 就是为祂作见证。
你真的已经到了生命的尽头了吗？你常常在脑海中想起它们，但你真正经历过吗？你不能怀着兴奋的心情去死或参加你的葬礼。死亡意味着你不再存在；你必须认同神的观点，停止像从前那种努力奋斗的基督徒。我们避开墓地，不断地拒绝我们自己的死亡。但成圣不会透过努力而实现，乃是透过屈服于死亡而实现，它正在死去，就是 「受洗归入祂的死」（罗马书6:3）。
你有没有举行过你自己的「白色葬礼」，还是你在虔诚地欺骗自己的灵魂？你生命中是否有某个时刻被你标记为你生命的最后一天？你的生命中是否有个地方，让你怀着谦卑和无比感恩的心回顾，以至于你可以诚实地宣称：「是的，在我的『白色葬礼』上，我与神达成了协议。」
「神的旨意就是要你们成为圣洁」（帖撒罗尼迦前书4:3）。一旦你真正意识到这是神的旨意，你很自然的反应就是进入成圣的过程。现在你愿意经历那个「白色葬礼」吗？你会同意祂的观点，这就是你在地球上的最后一天吗？达成协议的时刻取决于你。
来自章伯斯的智慧
我们都基于一种重要性观念，若非我们自己的重要性，就是别人的重要性；耶稣告诉我们，要根据祂的重要性的启示而去并作教导。 「所有的权柄都赐给我了…所以，你们要去。」《故我差遣你》
0115 Do You Walk In White?
We were buried with Him…that just as Christ was raised from the dead…even so we also should walk in newness of life. —Romans 6:4
No one experiences complete sanctification without going through a “white funeral” — the burial of the old life. If there has never been this crucial moment of change through death, sanctification will never be more than an elusive dream. There must be a “white funeral,” a death with only one resurrection— a resurrection into the life of Jesus Christ. Nothing can defeat a life like this. It has oneness with God for only one purpose— to be a witness for Him.
Have you really come to your last days? You have often come to them in your mind, but have you really experienced them? You cannot die or go to your funeral in a mood of excitement. Death means you stop being. You must agree with God and stop being the intensely striving kind of Christian you have been. We avoid the cemetery and continually refuse our own death. It will not happen by striving, but by yielding to death. It is dying— being “baptized into His death” (Romans 6:3).
Have you had your “white funeral,” or are you piously deceiving your own soul? Has there been a point in your life which you now mark as your last day? Is there a place in your life to which you go back in memory with humility and overwhelming gratitude, so that you can honestly proclaim, “Yes, it was then, at my ‘white funeral,’ that I made an agreement with God.”
“This is the will of God, your sanctification…” (1 Thessalonians 4:3). Once you truly realize this is God’s will, you will enter into the process of sanctification as a natural response. Are you willing to experience that “white funeral” now? Will you agree with Him that this is your last day on earth? The moment of agreement depends on you.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
We are all based on a conception of importance, either our own importance, or the importance of someone else; Jesus tells us to go and teach based on the revelation of His importance. “All power is given unto Me.… Go ye therefore ….” So Send I You, 1325 R