0115 你穿過白衣而行嗎？
所以，我們藉著洗禮歸入死，和祂一同埋葬，原是叫我們一舉一動有新生的樣式，像基督藉著父的榮耀從死里復活一樣。《羅馬書 6:4》
沒有人能不經歷「白色葬禮」，就是舊生命的埋葬，而經歷完全的成聖。如果從未經歷通過死亡而改變的時刻，那麼成聖將永遠只是一個遙不可及的夢想。必須有「白色葬禮」，就是死亡隨着只有一次性的復活，復活進入耶穌基督的生命。沒有什麼能打敗這樣的生命。它有着與神合一的唯一目的， 就是為祂作見證。
你真的已經到了生命的盡頭了嗎？你常常在腦海中想起它們，但你真正經歷過嗎？你不能懷着興奮的心情去死或參加你的葬禮。死亡意味着你不再存在；你必須認同神的觀點，停止像從前那種努力奮鬥的基督徒。我們避開墓地，不斷地拒絕我們自己的死亡。但成聖不會透過努力而實現，乃是透過屈服於死亡而實現，它正在死去，就是 「受洗歸入祂的死」（羅馬書6:3）。
你有沒有舉行過你自己的「白色葬禮」，還是你在虔誠地欺騙自己的靈魂？你生命中是否有某個時刻被你標記為你生命的最後一天？你的生命中是否有個地方，讓你懷着謙卑和無比感恩的心回顧，以至於你可以誠實地宣稱：「是的，在我的『白色葬禮』上，我與神達成了協議。」
「神的旨意就是要你們成為聖潔」（帖撒羅尼迦前書4:3）。一旦你真正意識到這是神的旨意，你很自然的反應就是進入成聖的過程。現在你願意經歷那個「白色葬禮」嗎？你會同意祂的觀點，這就是你在地球上的最後一天嗎？達成協議的時刻取決於你。
來自章伯斯的智慧
我們都基於一種重要性觀念，若非我們自己的重要性，就是別人的重要性；耶穌告訴我們，要根據祂的重要性的啟示而去並作教導。 「所有的權柄都賜給我了…所以，你們要去。」《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