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认识生命

【生命是个奥秘】有一个德国化学家，曾经花了四十年的时间，坐在他的实验室里单独研究生命的成分。四十年之久，他分析每一个成分，想把它们混合起来以制造生命。他分析胚胎，找到了碳、氧、氮、氢等元素，他认为只要能找出这些元素组成的比例，就能制造生命。但是他没有成功。生命本身是一种奥秘，是无法解决的。

【基督是我们的生命】不要想借着纠正你生命的圆周来变成基督徒。让基督进入你生命的中心，祂能纠正那圆周。你画圆周时不能从圆周开始画，必须先把圆规的脚固定在圆心上。有人说，只有艺术家才能画出一个完美的圆圈。在属灵的领域中，只努力于圆周上的事是毫无助益的。让基督住在圆心，祂所管理的生命将得到充分的矫正。基督徒生命的本质就是基督，此外不能在增添什么。

【Eternal Life】A child does not begin to exist when he or she is born. The child has already existed for nine months prior to this in the mother’s womb. At the point of birth, only the conditions in which the child exists change. Before, he lived internally; now, he lives externally. Before, he was fed internally; now, he feeds externally. He does not begin to live at birth: he has lived all the time since conception, but conditions change at birth.

So also can the believer view death. At the point of death, the conditions of our eternal life change—but not the fact that we do indeed have eternal life.

【Eternal Life】When the great Christian scientist Sir Michael Faraday was dying, some journalists questioned him about his speculations for a life after death. He purportedly replied: “Speculations! I know nothing about speculations. I’m resting on certainties. I know that my Redeemer liveth, and because He lives, I shall live also” (Job 19:25).

【Eternal Life】B.J. Honeycutt, a character on the T.V. series “M.A.S.H.,” gave this reason for why he didn’t give in to temptation in the midst of the Korean War: “I live in an insane world where nothing makes sense. Everyone around me lives for the now, because there may not be a tomorrow. But I have to live for tomorrow, because for me there is no now.”

For B.J., his hope for the future was seeing his family again. That hope was sufficient to define how he would behave in an extremely difficult situation. How much more so should our future hope of the kingdom of God shape how we live?