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17-21節--新的身分

哥林多後書 第5章

記得昨天提及的那個字嗎？我們今天將繼續探討它的意義。我們是「在基督?」(17節)。這是一條非常簡單的公式，可是卻蘊含深刻的真理。我們正因為「在基督?」，所以才得著新的驅動力、新的身分和事奉。

我們一般是怎樣運用「在」這個字的？我們會說我們是「在愛河?」、「在水中」、「在車?」、「在家?」，甚或是「在困難?」。然而，對信徒來說，「在基督?」的含意卻遠超過任何環境的限制。當我們決志相信基督的時候，聖靈便帶領我們進入基督?，我們便奇妙而永遠地與基督聯合起來，只能夠用「受洗歸入基督」來描述這種關係。


新的身分

如今，神看我們是基督的一部分，是緊緊地與祂連結在一起的。昔日，我們只有肉身的生命而沒有屬靈的生命；可是，當我們歸入基督之後，祂便將祂的生命賜給我們，使我們同時擁有屬靈的生命。「自從耶穌進入我心中…我的生命便出現了何等奇妙的改變」。我們如今是活在基督?的新人。

「舊事已過」，即我們已棄除舊人的生命；「已變成新的了」，即我們已成了新人，要有新的生活模式。我們既然變成了新人，那麼，我們在每一方面便應把這新的生命活出來。

情況就如毛蟲變成蝴蝶一樣。它的居住環境雖然沒有改變，但它的生活形態、習慣和食物卻完全不同。蝴蝶能夠飛舞、能夠生殖下一代，都是毛蟲辦不到、也從沒想過可做到的。這種改變是顯而易見的。

基督進到我們的生命之後，是否帶來明顯的改變，以致我們的家人、朋友能輕易見到呢？

但願主賜我們新生之後，我們能讓別人看見我的改變。

反思：

基督教導我們說：「要讓你的光照在人前。」

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OUR NEW POSITION

Remember our little word in? Here again it has a lot to say to us. We are in Christ (v.17). It is the simplest formula with the deepest truths. It is the reason behind our new motives, our new position and our new ministry.

How often do we use the word in? We speak of being in love, in the water, in the car, in the house or even in trouble. But as believers in Christ, it means so much more than any of those situations. When we believe in Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit puts us into Christ in a union so wonderful, so eternal, that the only way it can be described is that we are baptised into Christ.

OUR NEW POSITION

God now sees us as being part of Christ, being in union with Him. Previously we belonged to a race that was physically alive, but spiritually dead. When we came to Christ, He so communicated His life to us that we are now spiritually alive. What a wonderful change in my life ." since Jesus came into my heart. We are now new people living in a new world.

The old has gone. The things of the past have dropped out of my life. The new has come. New things have come into my life a new pattern for living. There is no part of my life which should not show this new life.

It is like the caterpillar which has become a butterfly. It may live in the same environment, but its desires and habits are entirely different. It can fly. It can reproduce. It can do so much that the caterpillar never thought of doing. The old has gone. The new has come. The change is obvious to all who see it.

Can the change which Christ has brought into our lives be clearly seen by those around us? Those we live with? It should be.

Ask God again today to help you allow Christ and your new life to be seen in you and through you today.

LET YOUR LIGHT SO SHINE BEFORE MEN.

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