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그리스도를 본받음 | |
성경말씀 | |
롬8:29 하나님께서 미리 아신 사람들을 그분의 아들과 같은 형상을 이루게 하시려고 또한 미리 정하셨습니다. 그것은 그분의 아들을 많은 형제들 가운데서 맏아들이 되게 하시려는 것입니다. (갈2:20) 나는 그리스도와 함께 십자가에 못 박혔습니다. 그러므로 이제는 더 이상 내가 사는 것이 아니라, 그리스도께서 내 안에 사십니다... | |
오늘의 만나 | |
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Imitating Christ, but not by Our Natural Life | |
Bible Verses | |
Romans 8:29 Because those whom He foreknew, He also predestinated to be
conformed to the image of His Son Galatians 2:20 I am crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me | |
Words of Ministry | |
After a person is saved, deep within him he desires to live a life in the pattern established by the Lord Jesus. However, many either ignore this desire or cultivate it in a mistaken way, thinking that by self-effort they can succeed in imitating Him. It is a mistake to think that we can imitate Christ by the exercise of our natural life. Not many of us may realize the influence the four Gospels have on us. When we read in the Gospels of the mold [pattern] formed by the Lord Jesus, that mold spontaneously influences our living. As we love the Lord, contact Him, and pray to Him, we automatically live Him according to the mold described in the Gospels. In this way we are shaped, conformed, to the image of this mold. This is what it means to learn Christ. Learning Christ in this way is altogether different from taking Him as an objective example and endeavoring in our natural life to imitate Him. God has put us into the mold formed by the life of Jesus on earth. Simultaneously, Christ as the life-giving Spirit has come into our being as life. The more we love Him and contact Him, the more we live Him according to this mold. As a result, we are spontaneously conformed to the image of that mold. Therefore, with Paul we can say, “For to me to live is Christ” (Phil. 1:21). We live Christ in the form of His own life, in the form recorded in the Gospels. | |
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