體驗超自然的喜樂Experiencing Supernatural Joy
[每日靈修] 2/9/2018, 駱鴻銘編譯
在約翰福音裏，耶穌闡述了祂的宣告，即祂是葡萄樹，我們是枝子：「這些事我已經對你們說了，是要叫我的喜樂存在你們心裏，並叫你們的喜樂可以滿足。」（約十五11） 。
這段經文表明，基督徒的喜樂不是人生自然的喜樂。只要它具有超自然的來源，就是一種超自然的喜樂。這是基督在我們裏面的工作。儘管耶穌說是祂的喜樂存在我們裏面，但是它一旦在我們裏面，它就還是我們的喜樂。祂是這喜樂的源頭和力量，但它仍然是我們的喜樂。
耶穌也談到了祂在我們裏面的喜樂的目標或目的，即我們的喜樂可以滿足（full；新譯本：滿溢）。「滿足」一詞說的是程度，在這裏是最高的程度。沒有比滿溢的喜樂更喜樂的了。然而，我們可以體驗到部分的喜樂，或者不是滿溢的喜樂，不是因為耶穌的喜樂有波動起伏，而是因為我們住在基督裏的程度會有波動起伏。
我們不會落在基督以外，但是在成聖的過程裏，我們緊緊抓住祂會有鬆緊不一的程度。若我們蒙召要住在基督裏，我們的意志就是很重要的。
活在神的面光中（在神面前禱告）：
求上帝超自然的快樂來淹沒你的生命。
進一步研讀：
約十五11 這些事我已經對你們說了，是要叫我的喜樂存在你們心裏，並叫你們的喜樂可以滿足。
賽六一1～3 主耶和華的靈在我身上；因為耶和華用膏膏我，叫我傳好信息給謙卑的人（或作：傳福音給貧窮的人），差遣我醫好傷心的人，報告被擄的得釋放，被囚的出監牢；報告耶和華的恩年，和我們神報仇的日子；安慰一切悲哀的人， 賜華冠與錫安悲哀的人，代替灰塵；喜樂油代替悲哀；讚美衣代替憂傷之靈；使他們稱為「公義樹」，是耶和華所栽的，叫他得榮耀。
賽六一7 你們必得加倍的好處，代替所受的羞辱；分中所得的喜樂，必代替所受的凌辱。在境內必得加倍的產業；永遠之樂必歸與你們（原文作他們）。
Experiencing Supernatural Joy
In
John’s Gospel, Jesus expounded His declaration that He is the vine and we are
the branches: “These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in
you, and that your joy may be full” (John 15:11).
This
text indicates that the joy of the Christian is not the natural joy of human
life. It is a supernatural joy insofar as it has a supernatural source. It is
the work of Christ within us. Though Jesus spoke of His joy being in us, it is
still our joy once it is in us. He is its source and its power, but it is still
our joy.
Jesus
also spoke of the end or purpose of His joy remaining in us, namely, that our
joy may be full. The term full speaks of a degree, in this case an ultimate
degree. There is no more joy than full joy. Yet we can experience partial joy
or less than full joy, not because there are fluctuations in Jesus’ joy, but
because there are fluctuations in the degree of our abiding in Christ.
We
cannot fall out of Christ, but in the process of sanctification we experience
greater and/or lesser degrees of clinging closely to Him. Here our wills are
important in that we are called to abide in Christ.
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Ask
God for supernatural joy to flood your life.
Passages
for Further Study
John
15:11
Isaiah
61:1, 3
Isaiah
61:7
