1223 有份於贖罪
但我斷不以別的誇口，只誇我們主耶穌基督的十字架。因這十字架，就我而論，世界已經釘在十字架上。就世界而論，我已經釘在十字架上。《加拉太書6:14》
耶穌基督的福音總是迫使我們意志做出決定。我是否接受了神在基督十字架上對罪的判決？我對耶穌的死有那麼一丁點的興趣嗎？我想要與祂的死認同，就是對罪、世俗和自我的一切興趣完全死去嗎？我是否渴望與耶穌如此緊密地認同，以至於除了祂和祂的目的之外，我對任何事都毫無價值？作門徒的最大特權，是我可以把自己委身在祂十字架的旗幟下，那就意味着向罪死。你必須獨自與耶穌在一起，要麼決定告訴祂，你不想讓罪在你身上消失，要麼就決定不惜一切代價與祂的死認同。當你憑着對我們的主在十字架上所做之事的確信行動時，與祂的死超自然的認同就會立即發生。你會通過更高深的認識而知你的舊生命已經「與祂同釘十字架」（羅馬書 6:6）。你的舊生命已死，已經「與基督同釘十字架」（加拉太書 2:20）的證據，就是如今神的生命在你裡面使你能夠很奇妙輕鬆地順服耶穌基督的聲音。
我們的主偶爾會讓我們瞥見如果沒有祂，我們會是什麼樣子。這證實了祂所說的話：「…離了我，你們就不能做什麼。」（約翰福音 15:5）。這就是為什麼基督教的根基是個人對主耶穌的熱情獻身。我們誤以為進入神的國第一次的喜悅，就是祂帶我們進入祂的國的目的。然而，神讓我們進入祂國度的目的，是讓我們可以認識到與耶穌基督認同的所有意義。
來自章伯斯的智慧
眼見不等於相信；我們根據我們所信的來解釋我們所看見的。信仰是在你看到神出現之前對神的信任；因此，信仰的本質是它必須經受考驗。《他必榮耀我》
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