1223 有份于赎罪
但我断不以别的夸口，只夸我们主耶稣基督的十字架。因这十字架，就我而论，世界已经钉在十字架上。就世界而论，我已经钉在十字架上。《加拉太书6:14》
耶稣基督的福音总是迫使我们意志做出决定。我是否接受了神在基督十字架上对罪的判决？我对耶稣的死有那么一丁点的兴趣吗？我想要与祂的死认同，就是对罪、世俗和自我的一切兴趣完全死去吗？我是否渴望与耶稣如此紧密地认同，以至于除了祂和祂的目的之外，我对任何事都毫无价值？作门徒的最大特权，是我可以把自己委身在祂十字架的旗帜下，那就意味着向罪死。你必须独自与耶稣在一起，要么决定告诉祂，你不想让罪在你身上消失，要么就决定不惜一切代价与祂的死认同。当你凭着对我们的主在十字架上所做之事的确信行动时，与祂的死超自然的认同就会立即发生。你会通过更高深的认识而知你的旧生命已经「与祂同钉十字架」（罗马书 6:6）。你的旧生命已死，已经「与基督同钉十字架」（加拉太书 2:20）的证据，就是如今神的生命在你里面使你能够很奇妙轻松地顺服耶稣基督的声音。
我们的主偶尔会让我们瞥见如果没有祂，我们会是什么样子。这证实了祂所说的话：「…离了我，你们就不能做什么。」（约翰福音 15:5）。这就是为什么基督教的根基是个人对主耶稣的热情献身。我们误以为进入神的国第一次的喜悦，就是祂带我们进入祂的国的目的。然而，神让我们进入祂国度的目的，是让我们可以认识到与耶稣基督认同的所有意义。
来自章伯斯的智慧
眼见不等于相信；我们根据我们所信的来解释我们所看见的。信仰是在你看到神出现之前对神的信任；因此，信仰的本质是它必须经受考验。《他必荣耀我》
1223 Sharing in the Atonement
God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ… —Galatians 6:14
The gospel of Jesus Christ always forces a decision of our will. Have I accepted God’s verdict on sin as judged on the Cross of Christ? Do I have even the slightest interest in the death of Jesus? Do I want to be identified with His death— to be completely dead to all interest in sin, worldliness, and self? Do I long to be so closely identified with Jesus that I am of no value for anything except Him and His purposes? The great privilege of discipleship is that I can commit myself under the banner of His Cross, and that means death to sin. You must get alone with Jesus and either decide to tell Him that you do not want sin to die out in you, or that at any cost you want to be identified with His death. When you act in confident faith in what our Lord did on the cross, a supernatural identification with His death takes place immediately. And you will come to know through a higher knowledge that your old life was “crucified with Him” (Romans 6:6). The proof that your old life is dead, having been “crucified with Christ” (Galatians 2:20), is the amazing ease with which the life of God in you now enables you to obey the voice of Jesus Christ.
Every once in a while our Lord gives us a glimpse of what we would be like if it were not for Him. This is a confirmation of what He said— “…without Me you can do nothing” (John 15:5). That is why the underlying foundation of Christianity is personal, passionate devotion to the Lord Jesus. We mistake the joy of our first introduction into God’s kingdom as His purpose for getting us there. Yet God’s purpose in getting us into His kingdom is that we may realize all that identification with Jesus Christ means.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
Seeing is never believing: we interpret what we see in the light of what we believe. Faith is confidence in God before you see God emerging; therefore the nature of faith is that it must be tried. He Shall Glorify Me, 494 R