太四4 …经上记着，“人活着不是单靠食物，乃是靠神口里所出的一切话。”

　　彼前二2 像才生的婴孩一样，切慕那纯净的话奶，叫你们靠此长大，以致得救。

　　Matt. 4:4b It is written, “Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that proceeds out through the mouth of God.”

　　1 Pet. 2:2 As newborn babes, long for the guileless milk of the word in order that by it you may grow unto salvation,

　　我们对于圣经，…必须厉害的转一个观念。我们必须看见，圣经就是神所给我们的食物。我们所以读圣经，乃是要借着圣经来吃神，喝神，吸取神，呼吸神。我们知道圣经是神的话；约翰一章告诉我们，神的话就是神自己。神的话就是神出来了。神把祂自己发表出来，摆在我们跟前，就是话，就是圣经。…神之于人，就是要来作人的食物；所以神把祂自己用话发表出来，摆在人跟前，当然也就是来作人的食物。

　　我们祷告乃是呼吸主的灵，我们读经乃是接受主这个话。主这个话就是我们的食物。人活着不是单靠食物；因为人不光有物质的身体，人里面还有一个灵。人的身体，是需要外面的食物，但是人里面的灵却需要另一种食物。…所以主才说，人活着不是单靠食物，也要靠神口里所出来的一切话。从神口里所出来的一切话，就是人属灵的食物。所以申言者耶利米这样说，我得着你的言语，就当作食物吃了。〔耶十五16。〕

　　We need a drastic change in our concept concerning the Bible. We need to see that the Bible is the food God has given us. We read the Bible with the purpose of eating, drinking, absorbing, and breathing in God, because we know that the Bible is the Word of God. John 1 says that the Word of God is God Himself. God's Word is God's coming forth. When God is expressed and presented to us, we have the Word, the Bible. Since God wants to be our food, His expression and manifestation to man as the Word means that the Word is man's food.

　　Prayer is to breathe in the Lord's Spirit, and reading is to receive the Lord as the Word. The Lord as the Word is our food. Man does not live by bread alone, because he is not composed of only a body; within man there is also a spirit. The physical body requires physical food, but man's spirit requires a different type of food…….Hence, the Lord says that man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that proceeds out through the mouth of God (Matt. 4:4). All the words that proceed out through the mouth of God are man's spiritual food. For this reason, the prophet Jeremiah said, “Your words were found and I ate them” (Jer. 15:16).

　　神既是要来作人的食物，祂所呼出来的话语，就是圣经，也必定是来作人的食物。所以你来到圣经这里，就要来吃神喝神这一个食物，来吸取神自己，享受神自己。你若是这样一个读圣经的人，…你从每一句里都能得着营养，都能得着供应，都能得着生命（如何享受神及操练，二一九、二二三至二二五页）。

　　We will realize that since God is food to man, the Bible as His breathed-out word must also be food to man. When we come to the Bible, we must eat and drink God as our food; we must breathe in God Himself and enjoy Him. If we read the Bible this way, …… We will receive nourishment, supply, and life from every word. (How to Enjoy God and How to Practice the Enjoyment of God, chapter 13)

　　一个才生的婴孩最急切的需要，乃是吃奶来得着营养。若无营养，婴孩不仅不能适当的长大，且会渐渐的瘦弱，甚至死亡。在我们得救重生之后，我们急切的需要，也是学习如何吸入主作我们属灵的奶汁、营养。若无这种属灵的营养，我们就无法适当的长大，不久也会落在属灵的死亡中。

　　彼前二章二至三节：“像才生的婴孩一样，切慕那纯净的话奶，叫你们靠此长大，以致得救；你们若尝过主是美善的，就必如此。”…这里清楚告诉我们，应当如何来尝主，那就是来喝“纯净的话奶”。我们若要尝基督，我们就必须把话奶接受进来，那样，我们就得着营养而有属灵的长大。…当我们喝话奶的时候，我们实际上是在尝主。所以，我们尝主的话就是简单的借着喝话奶。如果我们爱慕享受主，得祂的供应，我们就必须到神的话这里来尝主（如何享受灵粮，六至七页）。

　　When a baby is born, his most immediate need is to take some milk for nourishment. Without nourishment the new babe will not only fail to grow properly, but will soon become very weak and eventually even die. After we are saved and born again, our most immediate need also is that we learn how to take in the Lord as our spiritual milk and nourishment. Without this spiritual nourishment, we also have no way to grow properly and will in a short time be spiritually dead.

　　In 1 Peter 2:2-3 we have a most important passage. “As newborn babes, long for the guileless milk of the word in order that by it you may grow unto salvation, if you have tasted that the Lord is good.” These verses are important to us because they tell us clearly how to taste the Lord: drink “the guileless [pure] milk of the Word.” If we would taste Christ, we must take into us the milk of the word. Then we will be nourished for spiritual growth.……When we drink the milk of the Word, we are actually tasting the Lord. Therefore, the way for us to taste the Lord is simply by drinking the milk of the Word. If we desire to enjoy the Lord and be nourished by the Lord, we must come to the Word to taste the Lord. (Pray-Reading the Word)