12月26日 行在光中

我们若在光明中行，如同神在光明中……他儿子耶稣的血也洗净我们一切的罪。（约壹一7）

自觉脱离罪，得享自由；并不等于已蒙救赎，从罪中得释放。若混淆二者，那是严重的错误。人必须重生，才知何为罪；而罪就是耶稣在十字架上所面对的。我从罪中得释放的证据，就是认识我里头的罪。主耶稣的救恩使人有份于他绝对的完全，叫人知道罪是什么。

圣灵使救恩在我们里面生效，在非意识的领域，也在意识可及的领域；只有当我们体会圣灵在我们里面那无可比拟的能力，我们才明白约翰一书一章7节的意思：“耶稣的血也洗净我们一切的罪。”这不单指人意识到的罪，更是指因内住的圣灵而对罪有深切的认识。

我若像神一样行在光中——不是自己良心的光，而是神的光——没有任何遮掩，就必稀奇地领悟耶稣的血洗净我一切的罪，以致神无法找出可指摘的。在我的意识中，他叫我对罪有一种敏锐而强烈的知觉。神的爱又在我里面，叫我像圣灵恨罪一样，恨恶一切与神圣洁相违的东西。行在光中的意思，就是每一件黑暗的事物，都驱策我更接近光的中枢。

祈祷◆洁净我，噢，主啊，使我脱去灵里一切的罪污，愿你那充满光辉的美善，今天临到我身上。

December 26 Placed In The Light

“If we walk in the light, as He is in the light, the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin.” 1 John 1:7

To mistake conscious freedom from sin for deliverance from sin by the Atonement is a great error. No man knows what sin is until he is born again. Sin is what Jesus Christ faced on Calvary. The evidence that I am delivered from sin is that I know the real nature of sin in me. It takes the last reach of the Atonement of Jesus Christ, that is, the impartation of His absolute perfection, to make a man know what sin is.

The Holy Spirit applies the Atonement to us in the unconscious realm as well as in the realm of which we are conscious, and it is only when we get a grasp of the unrivalled power of the Spirit in us that we understand the meaning of 1 John 1:7, “the blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth us from all sin.” This does not refer to conscious sin only, but to the tremendously profound understanding of sin which only the Holy Ghost in me realizes.

If I walk in the light as God is in the light, not in the light of my conscience, but in the light of God – if I walk there, with nothing folded up, then there comes the amazing revelation, the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses me from all sin so that God Almighty can see nothing to censure in me. In my consciousness it works with a keen poignant knowledge of what sin is. The love of God at work in me makes me hate with the hatred of the Holy Ghost all that is not in keeping with God's holiness. To walk in the light means that everything that is of the darkness drives me closer into the centre of the light.