和祂一同埋葬...叫我們...有新生的樣式。
沒有人能不經歷一場"白色葬禮" - 舊人生命的埋葬，
就進入到全然成聖的經歷之中。
如果從未有這個死的轉機，
那麼成聖就只不過是一個幻想。
必須要有那一場"白色葬禮"，
而那一個死，有一個獨一的復活 -
一個進入耶穌基督之生命的復活。
沒有什麼可以傾覆這樣的生命；
它是與神合一、為著同一目的，
而為祂作見證。
你真的來到你的最後幾天嗎？
在情感上，你是時常來到，
但你是真正地來到嗎？
你不可能興奮地去參加你的葬禮，
或者興奮地死去。
死意味著你停止存在。
我們迴避墓地，並且始終拒絕赴死。
這並不是努力走向死亡，
而是死去 - "受洗歸入祂的死"。
你是否已舉行了你的"白色葬禮"，
還是在神聖地愚弄你的靈魂？
在你的生命中，有沒有一個地方
被標記為最後一天，當記憶回到那地方時，
你帶著受過管教和極其感恩的紀念 -
"是的，就是當時，在那場白色葬禮上，
我與神立下了約定"？
你願意現在就經歷那場"白色葬禮"嗎？
你是否同意祂，這是你在地上的最後一天？
同意的時刻取決於你。
Buried with Him…that…even so we also should walk
in newness of life. No one enters into the experience
of entire sanctification without going through
a "white funeral" – the burial of the old life.
If there has never been this crisis of death,
sanctification is nothing more than a vision.
There must be a "white funeral,"
a death that has only one resurrection –
a resurrection into the life of Jesus Christ.
Nothing can upset such a life; it is one with God
for one purpose, to be a witness to Him.
Have you come to your last days really?
You have come to them often in sentiment,
but have you come to them really?
You cannot go to your funeral
in excitement, or die in excitement.
Death means you stop being.
We skirt the cemetery and
all the time refuse to go to death.
It is not striving to go to death,
it is dying – "baptized into His death."
Have you had your "white funeral," or
are you sacredly playing the fool with your soul?
Is there a place in your life marked as the last day,
a place to which the memory goes back with
a chastened and extraordinarily grateful remembrance –
"Yes, it was then, at that white funeral, that I made an agreement
with God"? Are you willing to go through that "white funeral" now?
Do you agree with Him that this is your last day on earth?
The moment of agreement depends upon you.
- 章伯斯 (Oswald Chambers, 1874-1917)
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