7月23日 成圣

你们得在基督耶稣里，是本乎神，神又使他成为我们的……圣洁。（林前一30）

生的一面。成圣的奥秘就是耶稣基督把自己完全赐给我，这不是渐进的，而是当我凭信体认耶稣基督成为我的圣洁那一刻，就即时得着。耶稣的圣洁成为我的圣洁，而且从我身上彰显出来；这正是成圣的意思。

圣洁生活的秘诀，不在仿效耶稣，而是让他的完美在我身上彰显。成圣是：“基督在我里面。”我因信领受他那奇妙的生命——神无上恩惠的礼物。我愿意让神使成圣在我里面成为真实，就像他自己的话语一样真实吗？成圣就是耶稣基督圣洁的品质传了给我。每一个分别为圣的人，彰显的都是他的忍耐、他的爱心、他的信实、他的无暇、他的敬虔。成圣不是向耶稣支取圣洁的能力，而是支取他本身的圣洁；是他使圣洁在我身上彰显出来。成圣是赐予，不是模仿。模仿是另一回事。在耶稣基督里，一切皆完全；而成圣的奥秘，就在于我可以取用他一切的完美。于是慢慢地，但肯定地，我便开始过有条不紊、健康、圣洁的生活，是“蒙神能力保守的”。

祈祷◆主啊，真的，我不需要更多的证据，证明你话语中有关人内心的真理；即使那是你的心意，我还是不想在这方面再知道更多。我想更多认识的，是关乎你伟大和满有恩典的救赎。

July 23 Sanctification

“Of Him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us . . . sanctification.” 1 Corinthians 1:30

The Life Side. The mystery of sanctification is that the perfections of Jesus Christ are imparted to me, not gradually, but instantly when by faith I enter into the realization that Jesus Christ is made unto me sanctification. Sanctification does not mean anything less than the holiness of Jesus being made mine manifestly.

The one marvellous secret of a holy life lies not in imitating Jesus, but in letting the perfections of Jesus manifest themselves in my mortal flesh. Sanctification is “Christ in you.” It is His wonderful life that is imparted to me in sanctification, and 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. It is His patience, His love, His holiness, His faith, His purity, His godliness, that is manifested in and through every sanctified soul. Sanctification is not drawing from Jesus the power to be holy; it is drawing from Jesus the holiness that was manifested in Him, and He manifests it in me. Sanctification is an impartation, not an imitation. Imitation is on a different line. In Jesus Christ is the perfection of everything, and the mystery of sanctification is that all the perfections of Jesus are at my disposal, and slowly and surely I begin to live a life of ineffable order and sanity and holiness: “Kept by the power of God.”