0321 認同或只感興趣？
我已經與基督同釘十字架。《加拉太書 2:20》
我們每個人都有無法避免的靈性需要，就是簽署我們罪性死亡證明。我必須把我的情感觀點和理智信念，願意將它們轉化為針對罪性的道德判決，也就是說，反對我對自己權利的主張。保羅說，「我已經與基督同釘十字架。」他沒有說，「我已經下定決心要效法耶穌基督」，或「我真的會努力跟隨祂」，而是「我已經在祂的死中與祂認同了。」一旦我做出這個道德決定並付諸行動，基督在十字架上為我所成就的一切就都在我身上成就了。我對神無保留的委身，給靈有機會賜我耶穌基督的聖潔。
「現在活着的不再是我…」我的個性依然存在，但我生活的主要動機和支配我的本性已發生了根本性的改變。我有同樣的人類身體，但舊有屬撒旦的自我權利已經被摧毀了。
「…我如今在肉身活着…」不是我渴望過的或甚至禱告我要過的生活，而是我現今在有限肉身中過的生活着 ——是別人可以看到的生活，「是因信神的兒子而活」。這信心不是保羅自己對耶穌基督的信心，而是神兒子賜給他的信心（參見以弗所書 2:8）。那不再是對信仰的信心，而是一種超越一切可想象的限制的信心——一種只來自於神的兒子的信心。
來自章伯斯的智慧
如果在我們裡面所有敗壞中只有一根信心的繩索，神也會抓住那一根。《不知往何處去》
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