0723 成圣 (2)
但你们得在基督耶稣里是本乎神，神又使他成为我们的…圣洁…《哥林多前书1:30》
生命的一面。成圣的奥秘在于，耶稣基督的完美的品质作为礼物分赐给我不是逐渐地，而是一旦我凭藉信心意识到祂「成为[我 ]…圣洁…」就立即得着。成圣就意味着耶稣的圣洁全然成为我的，并在我的生命中展现出来。
过圣洁生活的最美妙秘诀不在于仿效耶稣，而在于让耶稣完美的品质在我的肉身中展现出来。成圣是「基督在你们里面……」（歌罗西书1:27）。是祂奇妙的生命在成圣中赐给了我——作为神无上恩典的礼物，凭藉信心分赐给我。我愿意让神在我身上使成圣成真，如同祂的话语一样的真实吗？
成圣意味着将耶稣基督的圣洁品质分赐给我。这是祂的忍耐、慈爱、圣洁、信心、纯洁和敬虔的恩赐，是在每一个成圣的灵魂中展现，并通过每一个成圣的灵魂展现出来。成圣并不是从耶稣那里汲取成为圣洁的能力——而是从耶稣那里汲取在祂身上展现的圣洁，现在祂在我里面展现。成圣是一种赐予，而不是一种仿效；仿效是完全不同的事。一切的完美都在耶稣基督里，成圣的奥秘是耶稣所有完美的品质都供我所用。因此，我慢慢但确定地地开始过一种难以形容的秩序、健全和圣洁的生活——「…蒙神能力保守…」（彼得前书 1:5）。
来自章伯斯的智慧
「人子来的时候，遇得见世上有信德么？」我们对良好的原则、良好的管理、良好的常识都有信心，但我们当中谁对耶稣基督有信心呢？身体上的勇气是伟大的，道德上的勇气更伟大，但是在面对生活中巨大问题时信靠耶稣基督的人，抵得上一群英雄。《至善》
0723 Sanctification (2)
But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us…sanctification… —1 Corinthians 1:30
The Life Side. The mystery of sanctification is that the perfect qualities of Jesus Christ are imparted as a gift to me, not gradually, but instantly once I enter by faith into the realization that He “became for [me]…sanctification….” Sanctification means nothing less than the holiness of Jesus becoming mine and being exhibited in my life.
The most wonderful secret of living a holy life does not lie in imitating Jesus, but in letting the perfect qualities of Jesus exhibit themselves in my human flesh. Sanctification is “Christ in you…” (Colossians 1:27). It is His wonderful life that is imparted to me in sanctification— imparted by faith as a sovereign gift of God’s grace. Am I willing for God to make sanctification as real in me as it is in His Word?
Sanctification means the impartation of the holy qualities of Jesus Christ to me. It is the gift of His patience, love, holiness, faith, purity, and godliness that is exhibited in and through every sanctified soul. Sanctification is not drawing from Jesus the power to be holy— it is drawing from Jesus the very holiness that was exhibited in Him, and that He now exhibits in me. Sanctification is an impartation, not an imitation. Imitation is something altogether different. The perfection of everything is in Jesus Christ, and the mystery of sanctification is that all the perfect qualities of Jesus are at my disposal. Consequently, I slowly but surely begin to live a life of inexpressible order, soundness, and holiness— “…kept by the power of God…” (1 Peter 1:5).
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
“When the Son of man cometh, shall He find faith on the earth?” We all have faith in good principles, in good management, in good common sense, but who amongst us has faith in Jesus Christ? Physical courage is grand, moral courage is grander, but the man who trusts Jesus Christ in the face of the terrific problems of life is worth a whole crowd of heroes. 《The Highest Good,》544 R