4月8日 他复活的目的

基督这样受害，又进入他的荣耀，岂不是应当的吗？（路二十四26）

主的十字架是进入生命的门：他的复活，表示他有能力把他的生命传递给我。我重生之后，就从复活的主接受他的生命。主复活的目的，为要领“许多儿子进入荣耀里”。他达成任务后，就有权柄叫我们成为神的儿女。我们从未有过神子与神的这种关系；但却因着神子，获得了儿子的位分。主从死里复活，进入了一种崭新的生命，这生命是他成肉身以前未曾有过的。他复活的生命是前所未有的；因此他的复活对我们来说，叫我们也有像他一样复活的生命，而不是我们旧有的生命。有一天，我们将有一个像他荣耀的身体。如今，我们也可享受他复活的效应，行事为人有新生的样式，使我认识他复活的大能。

“正如你曾赐给他权柄，管理凡有血气的，叫他将永生赐给你所赐给他的人。”（约十七2）在工作效果来说，“圣灵”一词是指此时此地在人心中作工的永恒生命。圣灵就是那赐予能力的神，把救赎实现在我们的经历里。感谢神，只要我们顺服圣灵，他就能在我们里面陶铸耶稣的性情，这是荣耀而严肃的确切事实。

祈祷◆噢，主啊，愿你今天与我们真实地同在——愿圣灵同在的极大喜乐弥漫我们。

April 8 His Resurrection Destiny

“Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into His glory?” Luke 24:26

Our Lord’s Cross is the gateway into His life: His Resurrection means that He has power now to convey His life to me. When I am born again from above, I receive from the Risen Lord His very life.

Our Lord’s Resurrection destiny is to bring “many sons unto glory.” The fulfilling of His destiny gives Him the right to make us sons and daughters of God. We are never in the relationship to God that the Son of God is in; but we are brought by the Son into the relation of sonship. When Our Lord rose from the dead, He rose to an absolutely new life, to a life He did not live before He was incarnate. He rose to a life that had never been before; and His resurrection means for us that we are raised to His risen life, not to our old life. One day we shall have a body like unto His glorious body, but we can know now the efficacy of His resurrection and walk in newness of life. “I would know Him in the power of His resurrection.”

“As Thou hast given Him power over all flesh, that He should give eternal life to as many as Thou hast given Him.” “Holy Spirit” is the experimental name for Eternal Life working in human beings here and now. The Holy Spirit is the Deity in proceeding power Who applies the Atonement to our experience. Thank God it is gloriously and majestically true that the Holy Ghost can work in us the very nature of Jesus if we will obey Him.