0723 成聖 (2)
但你們得在基督耶穌里是本乎神，神又使他成為我們的…聖潔…《哥林多前書1:30》
生命的一面。成聖的奧秘在於，耶穌基督的完美的品質作為禮物分賜給我不是逐漸地，而是一旦我憑藉信心意識到祂「成為[我 ]…聖潔…」就立即得着。成聖就意味着耶穌的聖潔全然成為我的，並在我的生命中展現出來。
過聖潔生活的最美妙秘訣不在於仿效耶穌，而在於讓耶穌完美的品質在我的肉身中展現出來。成聖是「基督在你們裡面……」（歌羅西書1:27）。是祂奇妙的生命在成聖中賜給了我——作為神無上恩典的禮物，憑藉信心分賜給我。我願意讓神在我身上使成聖成真，如同祂的話語一樣的真實嗎？
成聖意味着將耶穌基督的聖潔品質分賜給我。這是祂的忍耐、慈愛、聖潔、信心、純潔和敬虔的恩賜，是在每一個成聖的靈魂中展現，並通過每一個成聖的靈魂展現出來。成聖並不是從耶穌那裡汲取成為聖潔的能力——而是從耶穌那裡汲取在祂身上展現的聖潔，現在祂在我裡面展現。成聖是一種賜予，而不是一種仿效；仿效是完全不同的事。一切的完美都在耶穌基督里，成聖的奧秘是耶穌所有完美的品質都供我所用。因此，我慢慢但確定地地開始過一種難以形容的秩序、健全和聖潔的生活——「…蒙神能力保守…」（彼得前書 1:5）。
來自章伯斯的智慧
「人子來的時候，遇得見世上有信德么？」我們對良好的原則、良好的管理、良好的常識都有信心，但我們當中誰對耶穌基督有信心呢？身體上的勇氣是偉大的，道德上的勇氣更偉大，但是在面對生活中巨大問題時信靠耶穌基督的人，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