---------------- Short Stories for Shepherding Materials English VersionLesson 8.Christ is Life

Can a duck turn into a chicken?

When Christ our life is manifested, then you also will be manifested with Him in glory. Colossians 3:4

A farmer mistakenly gave duck eggs with chicken eggs for a hen to hatch,

resulting this hen treated ducklings as as her children in the same way.

One day, the chickens and ducks went out with the hens for food.

They passed a small pond, and the chickens carefully walked along the pond.

However, the ducklings swam happily on the pool

because they had the opportunity to exert their life skills to swim very happily.

Although the hens screamed,

the ducklings still enjoyed swimming according to the duck life and nature.

Friends, ducks are ducks, chickens are chickens,

and the ducklings can't lose their life nature and become chickens because they are bred by hens.

Likewise, our hearts cannot be changed by external cultivation and self-improvement,

good deeds and teachings.

If these methods can really make people become good,

then the world will never become so messy deceitful,

murderous, arguing, and unrighteous today

Receiving Christ as life is as simple as breathing,

simply believing in the Lord and praying,

"Lord, I breathe in you with faith like air. "

God will come into your heart.

When the divine life comes into us,

we are regenerated. Babies need to eat and drink to grow.

Likewise, by eating and drinking Christ as the spiritual food and the water of life,

our spiritual life will grow.

When we keep eating and drinking Christ in this way,

we grow in the divine life everyday.

Thus, we are filled with God and can live out God in our daily lives

that is the true meaning of the Christian life.

----------------牧養材料中文文字稿小故事牧養材料第六課 基督是神

鴨能變成雞嗎？

某農人誤把鴨蛋和雞蛋給母雞去孵，結果生出一羣雞和鴨。

母雞一樣看待養育,小鴨似乎被雞所同化了。

某天小雞小鴨隨同母雞出外找食，經過一個小小池塘，小雞們都很小心地沿着池旁邊行走。
但小鴨們卻因為得着發揮生命本性技能的機會，反而在池中游來游去，非常快樂。
母雞雖驚叫，但小鴨們仍舊照鴨生命本性來享受游水之樂。

朋友們，鴨是鴨，雞是雞，絕不能因着小鴨是由母雞孵養，而失去鴨生命本性，而變成小雞。
照樣，我們人心不能靠着外面的修養和鍛鍊，行善和教導，而使内心有所改變。
假若這些方法果真能使人向善，那麼今日的世界絕不會變成如此凌亂，詭詐，兇殺，吵鬧，不義。

接受基督作生命，就像呼吸一樣簡單，只要簡單的相信主並禱告說，
主，我用信心像吸空氣一樣把你吸進來。』神就會進到你的心裡面。
當神聖的生命進到我們裏面，我們就重生了。
嬰兒需要喫喝才會長大。
同樣，藉著喫喝基督這屬靈的食物及生命的水，我們屬靈的生命才會長大。

我們這樣不斷喫喝基督，就天天在神聖的生命上成長。
這樣，我們就被神充滿且能在平日活出神，這就是基督徒生活的意義。