The Law of Life
生命律
生命律
文: 陳瑩
有人作基督徒許多年了，還不知道罪和死是一個律，生命也是一個律。神拯救人的方法，不是叫我們立志作一個「我們所不是」的人。神不是叫你去立志，去盼望，去羨慕，去定規要作一個怎樣的基督徒。你如果是靠立志去作，你天天就像是懸空的掛在那裏，費力得很。許多的基督徒如果要他少說話實在很費力﹔脾氣急的要他忍耐，便把他悶出病來。感謝神，祂的救法，不是要我們去作一個我們「所不是的人。」乃是有一個新生命的律在我們裏面活出來。我在地上走路，腳能非常自然舉起來，一點不覺有地心吸力，乃因在我裏面有一力量比它大。這叫作「生命的律。」許多基督徒站錯了地位而不知，作錯了而不知，不是沒有得着生命，而是沒有學習跟從他裏面「生命的律。」許多基督徒最大失敗就是在那裏用意志。一碰難處就立刻用意志來解決。碰着一個人，不能愛他，立刻花許多力氣去愛他。結果花了大氣力，還是愛不來。這時候，你要停下來對主說︰我不能愛他，但在我裏面的「祢」能愛。你就是簡簡單單的，想都不必想，求都不必求。不知不覺的，自自然的，你就得勝過去，一點都沒有花力氣。犯罪需要立志嗎？犯罪用不着立志。同樣，行善也用不着立志，是「生命的律」替你作，是「它」在你裏面產生這一切。主給我們一個律是自然而然的。當你把「意志」的枴杖摔在一邊，「生命的律」就彰顯出來。你對這個新的律認識多少？你是自己在那裏作基督徒，還是自然而然生命的力量叫你自然的作基督徒？
The Law of Life
By: Dorine Chan
Some people have been Christian for many years without knowing that sin and death are laws, and life is also a kind of law. The way God saving people is not telling us to determine to be someone "we are not". God does not call us to determine, to wish, to envy or to regulate what kind of Christian to be. If you can only work by determination you would be like floating in the air and very laborious every day. It is really laborious to ask a Christian who likes talking to speak less; asking a quicker temper to be patient may make him depressed and become ill. Thank God, his way of saving is not ask us to be someone "we are not", but let a ne life law live inside us. I walk on the ground and the foot can be lifted very naturally without feeling gravity at all, because there is a power inside me stronger than it. This is called "law of life." Many Christians stand at the wrong position or do something wrong and do not know it. It is not because there is no life, but because the do not learn to follow the "law of life" inside them. The biggest failure for many Christians is using their will. Once they encounter difficulties they will immediately use will to resolve them. When meeting a person who can not be loved, they will immediately spend a lot of effort to love him. The result is that it takes the great efforts but still in vain. At this moment, you have to stop and said to the Lord: I can not love him, but inside me "you" can. You are just being very simple and do not think about it and ask about it at all. Unknowingly and naturally, you will win and go beyond without any effort. Does committing a sin need to determine? No. Similarly, being good also does not need to be determined. It is the "law of life" who is doing for you and it is "it" to make it all inside you. The Lord has given us a natural law. When you throw the stick of "will" aside, "the law of life" will be highlighted. How much do you know about this new law? Are you being a Christian by yourself or a natural life force calls you to be a natural Christian?