0321 认同或只感兴趣？
我已经与基督同钉十字架。《加拉太书 2:20》
我们每个人都有无法避免的灵性需要，就是签署我们罪性死亡证明。我必须把我的情感观点和理智信念，愿意将它们转化为针对罪性的道德判决，也就是说，反对我对自己权利的主张。保罗说，「我已经与基督同钉十字架。」他没有说，「我已经下定决心要效法耶稣基督」，或「我真的会努力跟随祂」，而是「我已经在祂的死中与祂认同了。」一旦我做出这个道德决定并付诸行动，基督在十字架上为我所成就的一切就都在我身上成就了。我对神无保留的委身，给灵有机会赐我耶稣基督的圣洁。
「现在活着的不再是我…」我的个性依然存在，但我生活的主要动机和支配我的本性已发生了根本性的改变。我有同样的人类身体，但旧有属撒旦的自我权利已经被摧毁了。
「…我如今在肉身活着…」不是我渴望过的或甚至祷告我要过的生活，而是我现今在有限肉身中过的生活着 ——是别人可以看到的生活，「是因信神的儿子而活」。这信心不是保罗自己对耶稣基督的信心，而是神儿子赐给他的信心（参见以弗所书 2:8）。那不再是对信仰的信心，而是一种超越一切可想象的限制的信心——一种只来自于神的儿子的信心。
来自章伯斯的智慧
如果在我们里面所有败坏中只有一根信心的绳索，神也会抓住那一根。《不知往何处去》
0321 Identified or Simply Interested?
I have been crucified with Christ… —Galatians 2:20
The inescapable spiritual need each of us has is the need to sign the death certificate of our sin nature. I must take my emotional opinions and intellectual beliefs and be willing to turn them into a moral verdict against the nature of sin; that is, against any claim I have to my right to myself. Paul said, “I have been crucified with Christ….” He did not say, “I have made a determination to imitate Jesus Christ,” or, “I will really make an effort to follow Him” —but— “I have been identified with Him in His death.” Once I reach this moral decision and act on it, all that Christ accomplished for me on the Cross is accomplished in me. My unrestrained commitment of myself to God gives the Holy Spirit the opportunity to grant to me the holiness of Jesus Christ.
“…it is no longer I who live….” My individuality remains, but my primary motivation for living and the nature that rules me are radically changed. I have the same human body, but the old satanic right to myself has been destroyed.
“…and the life which I now live in the flesh,” not the life which I long to live or even pray that I live, but the life I now live in my mortal flesh— the life which others can see, “I live by faith in the Son of God….” This faith was not Paul’s own faith in Jesus Christ, but the faith the Son of God had given to him (see Ephesians 2:8). It is no longer a faith in faith, but a faith that transcends all imaginable limits— a faith that comes only from the Son of God.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
If there is only one strand of faith amongst all the corruption within us, God will take hold of that one strand. –Not Knowing Whither, 888 L