1112 改变的生命
若有人在基督里，他就是新造的人，旧事已过，都变成新的了。 《哥林多后书 5:17》
你对你灵魂得救的理解是什么？救恩的工作意味着在你真实生活中，事情有了巨大的变化。你不再以同样的方式看待事物了。你的欲望是新的，旧的事物已经失去它们吸引你的力量。确定救恩的工作在你生命中是否真实，其中一个测试就是：神是否改变了你真正看重的事物？如果你仍然渴望旧的事物，你又谈论从上头生，那是荒谬的——你是在欺骗自己。如果你重生了，神的灵改变你现实生活和思想，是非常明显的。当危机来临时，对你身上有的奇妙不同，你会是世上最感到惊讶的人，根本不可能是你做的。正是这种彻底而惊人的改变，才是你得救的明证。
我的得救和成圣，带来什么不同呢？例如，我能经得起哥林多前书 13 章的光照吗？还是我很不自在并逃避问题？圣灵在我里面成就的真正救恩，完全释放了我。只要我「在光明中行，如同神在光明中…」（约翰一书 1:7），神看我就无任何可责之处，因为祂的生命正在做工深入我本体每一个细节处，不只是在意识层面，甚至在比我的意识更深之处。
来自章伯斯的智慧
自然地说，没有什么比衰败更能让我们迅速丧失信心了——身体美丽的衰退、自然生命的衰退、友谊的衰退、关系的衰退，所有这些都使人心灰意冷；但保罗说，当我们信靠耶稣基督时，这些事情就不会令我们沮丧，光明会透过它们而来。《帮助之地》
1112 The Changed Life
If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. —2 Corinthians 5:17
What understanding do you have of the salvation of your soul? The work of salvation means that in your real life things are dramatically changed. You no longer look at things in the same way. Your desires are new and the old things have lost their power to attract you. One of the tests for determining if the work of salvation in your life is genuine is— has God changed the things that really matter to you? If you still yearn for the old things, it is absurd to talk about being born from above— you are deceiving yourself. If you are born again, the Spirit of God makes the change very evident in your real life and thought. And when a crisis comes, you are the most amazed person on earth at the wonderful difference there is in you. There is no possibility of imagining that you did it. It is this complete and amazing change that is the very evidence that you are saved.
What difference has my salvation and sanctification made? For instance, can I stand in the light of 1 Corinthians 13 , or do I squirm and evade the issue? True salvation, worked out in me by the Holy Spirit, frees me completely. And as long as I “walk in the light as He is in the light” (1 John 1:7), God sees nothing to rebuke because His life is working itself into every detailed part of my being, not on the conscious level, but even deeper than my consciousness.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
There is nothing, naturally speaking, that makes us lose heart quicker than decay—the decay of bodily beauty, of natural life, of friendship, of associations, all these things make a man lose heart; but Paul says when we are trusting in Jesus Christ these things do not find us discouraged, light comes through them. —The Place of Help