晨興聖言-經歷、享受並彰顯基督(W19-5)
第十九週.週五
晨興餧養
林後三18 『但我們眾人既然以沒有帕子遮蔽的臉,好像鏡子觀看並返照主的榮光,就漸漸變化成為與祂同樣的形像,從榮耀到榮耀,乃是從主靈變化成的。』
羅八29 『因為神所豫知的人,祂也豫定他們模成神兒子的形像,使祂兒子在許多弟兄中作長子。』
按照加拉太書的上下文,讓基督成形在我們裏面,就是讓祂浸潤我們全人,並浸透我們內裏的各部分。當基督這樣佔有我們內裏的所是,祂就成形在我們裏面。我們要讓基督成形在我們裏面,就需要放下基督自己以外的一切事物,不管這些事物有多好。…律法雖然是神所賜的,也必須被擺在一邊,好叫我們裏面所是的一切地位都讓給基督。我們需要讓基督浸透我們內裏所是的每一部分。祂必須佔有我們,並且浸透我們的心思、情感與意志。(新約總論第十一冊,七六頁。)
信息選讀
基督要安家在我們心裏,就需要定居在我們裏面;這就是讓基督成形在我們裏面。
讓基督成形在我們裏面,就是讓包羅萬有的靈佔有我們裏面之人的每一部分。律法不該在我們的心思、情感、或意志裏有任何地位。我們裏面所有的地位都必須讓給基督。…我們該讓基督成為我們的思想、決定、愛和一切。…基督以外的一切事物都必須減少,基督必須在我們的經歷中成為我們的一切。讓基督成形在我們裏面,就是讓基督與我們全人調和。我們全人的每一部分…都該與基督調和。基督必須浸透且浸潤我們,直到祂完全與我們調和;這樣,祂就要成形在我們裏面。這指明祂渴望與我們有非常主觀的關係。
保羅論到基督成形在信徒裏面的話,含示我們正被基督所構成。基督正活在我們裏面,成形在我們裏面,並成為我們的構成。讓基督成形在我們裏面,乃是一件活而生機的事。…祂的心意乃是以祂自己來構成我們的全人—心思、情感和意志。至終,我們全人將由基督的元素所構成,這就是說,祂將構成我們魂的每一部分,使我們所是的每一部分都有祂的形狀、形像。
讓基督成形在我們裏面,意即祂的元素構成到我們裏面。…祂的所是成了我們的所是,祂的構成成了我們的構成。這不僅是基督的元素存在我們裏面的事,也是基督的元素構成到我們裏面的事。這樣被基督構成,與生機的變化和成形的過程有關。在這過程中,一種活的東西—基督同其元素—構成到我們裏面,作到我們的所是裏。新約啟示,基督與我們的所是有很深的關聯。這不僅是觀念、理論或神學;這乃是神聖的事實,我們需要充分經歷這事。
加拉太四章十九節的『成形』,與林後三章十八節的『形像』相對應。…形像是一種形狀。基督必須成形在我們裏面,使我們在祂的形像中將祂彰顯出來。基督是活的一位,祂連同祂的元素正在我們裏面生機的作工,以祂自己來構成我們,使我們得有祂的形狀,並彰顯祂的形像。
保羅在論到這事時,使用『變化』(林後三18)和『模成』(羅八29)等辭。基督成形在我們裏面,在於我們被變化成為形像。我們若沒有變化成為祂的形像,祂就沒有成形在我們裏面。不僅如此,我們變化成為祂的形像,以及祂成形在我們裏面,就使我們被模成祂的形像。我們被模成祂的形像,乃是祂成形在我們裏面的結果。(新約總論第十一冊,七六至七八頁。)
參讀:加拉太書生命讀經,第二十三篇。
WEEK 19 — DAY 5
Morning Nourishment
2
Cor. 3:18 But we all with unveiled face, beholding and reflecting like a
mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image
from glory to glory, even as from the Lord Spirit.
Rom.
8:29 Because those whom He foreknew, He also predestinated to be
conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the Firstborn among many brothers.
According
to the context of the book of Galatians, to have Christ formed in us is
to allow Him to permeate our being and saturate our inward parts. When
Christ occupies our inner being in this way, He is formed in us. In
order to have Christ formed in us, we need to drop everything other than
Christ Himself, no matter how good these things may be…Although the law
was given by God, it must be set aside so that all the ground in our
being may be given over to Christ. We need to allow Him to saturate
every part of our inner being. He must occupy us and saturate our mind,
emotion, and will. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, pp. 3311-3312)
Today's Reading
For Christ to make home in our hearts, He needs to be able to settle down within us. This is to have Christ formed in us.
To
have Christ formed in us is to allow the all-inclusive Spirit to occupy
every part of our inner being. The law should not have any room in our
mind, emotion, or will. All the ground within us must be for Christ…We
should let Christ be our thought, our decision, our love, and everything
to us…Everything other than Christ must diminish, and Christ must
become everything to us in our experience. To have Christ formed in us
is to have Christ mingled with our whole being. In every part of our
being…Christ should be mingled with us. Christ must saturate us and
permeate us until He is completely blended with us; then He will be
formed in us. This indicates that He desires to have a very subjective
relationship with us.
Paul’s
word about Christ being formed in the believers implies that we are
being constituted with Christ. Christ is living in us, He is being
formed in us, and He is becoming our constitution. To have Christ formed
in us is a living, organic matter…He intends to constitute our whole
being—our mind, emotion, and will—with Himself. Eventually, our whole
being will be constituted with the element of Christ. This means that He
will constitute every part of our soul so that we may have His form,
His image, in every part of our being.
For
Christ to be formed in us means that His element is being constituted
into us…His being is becoming our being, and His constitution is
becoming our constitution. This is a matter not merely of the element of
Christ being within us but of having the element of Christ constituted
into us. To be constituted with Christ in this way involves a process of
organic transformation and formation. In this process something
living—Christ with His element—is being constituted into, wrought into,
our being. The New Testament reveals that Christ is deeply related to
our being. This is not merely a concept, theory, or theology; it is a
divine fact that we need to experience in full.
The
word formed in Galatians 4:19 corresponds to the word image in 2
Corinthians 3:18…This image is a form. Christ must be formed in us so
that we may express Him by being in His image. As the living One, Christ
with His element is working within us organically, constituting our
being with Himself so that we may have His form and express His image.
In
keeping with this, Paul used the words transformed (2 Cor. 3:18) and
conformed (Rom. 8:29). Christ’s being formed in us depends on our being
transformed into His image. If we are not transformed into His image,
Christ has not been formed in us. Moreover, our being transformed into
His image and His being formed in us cause us to be conformed to His
image. Our being conformed to His image is the issue of His being formed
in us. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, pp. 3312-3313)
Further Reading: Life-study of Galatians, msg. 23
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