9月27日 基督的身體




經文:「我已經得了贖價。」(伯33:24)

神醫是信心生活的一部份,是基督的生命從我們的身體活出,並在我們的身體掌權。而當基督的生命流入我們的身體時,也就是我們的體與基督聯合。所以,我們現在所擁有的,乃是基督升天以後得榮耀的身體。因祂從死裡復活,帶著一個復活的身體,坐在神的右邊。而我們今天所有的,就是那樣的身體。

這活著的基督是屬於我們的,祂所有的品性和能力也都是屬於我們的。我們是祂身上的肢體;是祂的肉與祂的骨;只要我們能夠相信與接受,我們立刻可以活出神兒子的生命來。主阿,求祢使我知道甚麼叫做「身體...是為主,主也是為身子。」(林前6:13)--信宣 A. B. Simpson

「在你中間的耶和華你的神是大有能力的」(番3:17)。二十多年前將神醫的眞理照入我心裡,叫我生病的身體得到醫治的,就是這節經文。直到今天,這節經文仍是一扇大大開放的門戶,好叫基督時時得以進入這買回的身體,用祂自己的同在,並祂能力的充滿、澆灌、活化,把我的全人造成一個「新天新地」(啟21:1)。

經上說「耶和華你的神!」;就是在說祂是我的神!神既是我的,那麼在神裡面的所有也一定是我的,並且在我的裡面;我可以相信多少,我願意使用多少,都是我自己的事。這一位「大有能力的」並全能的神,就在我們的裡面!這是何等的權柄;聖父、聖子、聖靈;在我的全人中 ;在我的身體,我的頭腦,我的神經裡面。

這些不只是我二十一年來的體認,並且是一天比一天更真實豐富的經歷。現在我已七十歲,卻比我三十歲的時候更強壯也更年輕。靠著神的能力,我現在無論在體力和智力,都負擔著常人兩倍的工作量,卻用不到我一半的心力。我的體力、智力、靈力,就像是噴泉一般,總是滿溢的。無論是講道、教書、日夜旅行;無論季節氣候;都像暢通的水管那般容易。--選
新譯|荒漠甘泉讀書會

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Members of His Body

Scripture: "I have found an atonement" (Job 33:24, margin).

Divine healing is just divine life. It is the headship of Christ over the body. It is the life of Christ in the frame. It is the union of our members with the very body of Christ and the inflowing life of Christ in our living members. It is as real as His risen and glorified body. It is as reasonable as the fact that He was raised from the dead and is a living Man with a true body and a rational soul today at God's right hand.

That living Christ belongs to us in all His attributes and powers. We are members of His body, His flesh and His bones, and if we can only believe and receive it, we may live upon the very life of the Son of God. Lord, help me to know "the Lord for the body and the body for the Lord.' --A. B. Simpson

"The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty." (Zeph. 3:17). This was the text that first flashed the truth of Divine healing into my mind and worn-out body nearly a quarter century ago. It is still the door, wide open more than ever, through which the living Christ passes moment by moment into my redeemed body, filling, energizing, vitalizing it with the presence and power of His own personality, turning my whole being into a "new heaven and new earth." "The Lord, thy God." Thy God. My God. Then all that is in God Almighty is mine and in me just as far as I am able and willing to appropriate Him and all that belongs to Him. This God, "Mighty," ALL Mighty God, is our INSIDE God. He is, as Father, Son and Holy Spirit, in the midst of me, just as really as the sun is in the center of the heavens, or like the great dynamo in the center of the power-house of my three-fold being. He is in the midst, at the center of my physical being. He is in the midst of my brain. He is in the midst of my nerve centers.

For twenty-one years it has been not only a living reality to me, but a reality growing deeper and richer, until now at the age of seventy years, I am in every sense a younger, fresher man than I was at thirty. At this present time I am in the strength of God, doing full twice as much work, mental and physical, as I have ever done in the best days of the past, and this observe, with less than half the effort then necessary. My life, physical, mental and spiritual, is like an artesian well--always full, overflowing. To speak, teach, travel by night and day in all weather and through all the sudden and violent changes of our variable climate, is no more effort to me than it is for the mill-wheel to turn when the stream is full or for the pipe to let the water run through.
| Mrs. Charles Cowman