诗四二7　 你的瀑布发声，深渊就与深渊响应；你的波浪洪涛，都漫过我身。

　　太十三5　又有的落在土浅石头地上，土既不深，立刻发苗。

　　所有的深处，只能因着深处的呼喊才能有响应。浅的东西，永远摸不着深的；在外面的，也永远摸不着里面的。……别人的深处，只能与你的深处响应。……凡不是从深处出来的，就永远不能达到深处。你如果不从深处得着益处，得着帮助，你就不能从深处有东西出来（倪柝声文集第二辑第十七册，五一页）。

　　Psa. 42:7 Deep calls unto deep at the sound of Your water spouts; all Your waves and Your billows pass over me.

　　Matt. 13:5 And others fell on the rocky places, where they did not have much earth, and immediately they sprang up because they had no depth of earth.

　　Only a call from the depths can provoke a response from the depths. Nothing shallow can ever touch the depths, nor can anything superficial touch the inward parts....Others can respond deep within to only what issues from deep within us....Anything that is not from the depths will never reach the depths of others. If we have never received help or benefit in our depths, we will never have anything issuing from our depths. (CWWN, vol. 37, “Deep Calls unto Deep,” p. 37)

　　在主耶稣所说的那一个撒种的比喻里面，……有落在土浅石头地上的〔太十三5〕。……种子落在这一种的地上，长得顶快，但是，日头出来一晒，因为没有根，就枯干了。……什么是根呢？根是长在下面的。什么是叶子呢？叶子是长在上面的。换句话说，看不见的生命叫作根，看得见的生命叫作叶子。许多基督徒的难处就在这里：看得见的生命虽然有，但是看不见的生命却少得很。换句话说，人缺少隐藏在深处的生活。……如果你所有的经历都是显露的，那你所有的都是往上长的，不是往下扎根的。这样，你就是光有叶子没有根的人，你就是土浅的人。……只有显在人面前的，没有隐藏在深处的，这样的人，是没有根的，是经不起试炼、经不起试探的。……〔我的经历〕除了别人所知道的之外，我还剩下多少？也求神作工在我们身上，使我们能往下扎根。

　　〔保罗〕把什么启示都告诉人么？不。他说，“我认得一个在基督里的人，〔这一个人就是他自己，〕十四年前，这样的一位被提，直到第三层天里（或在身内，我不晓得，或在身外，我也不晓得，只有神晓得）。”〔林后十二2〕这个十四年前的经历，到今天才说。……神的召会不知道保罗这个经历；……使徒们不知道保罗这个经历。保罗是一个有根的人！

　　要有保罗的工作，就得有保罗的根；要有保罗的生活，就得有保罗的生命；要有保罗显露的能力，就得有保罗隐密的经历。今天的难处，就是在神的儿女中藏不了属灵的东西，藏不了特别的经历。只要有一点的经历，就给许多人知道了。

　　这不是说不应当作见证，是说有许多属灵的经历是需要隐藏的。……没有根，就是没有暗中的宝贝，……没有暗中的生命，……没有暗中的经历。有许多的经历，我们必须遮盖起来；一切若都不遮盖起来，就要失去一切了。

　　我们所有在神面前隐密的东西，不能都拿出来。……神在里面动，我们才能动。有的时候，神要你对弟兄说话，你可不要把它压住了；你如果压住了，你就违反了基督身体肢体的律。肢体有一个律就是交通；你一压住，就不能流通。我们要积极，不能消极，我们要将生命给人。……我们盼望一面知道什么是身体，知道身体上的流通，另一面我们在主的面前，有我们隐藏的部分，就是许多经历是人所不知道的。……没有深处，你只能用表面的工作得着人表面的感动。我们说了再说，只有“深渊……与深渊响应”（倪柝声文集第二辑第十七册，五二至五五、五八至六○页）。

　　参读：倪柝声文集第二辑第十七册，第七篇；倪柝声文集第二辑第十八册，第六十五篇；歌罗西书生命读经，第四十四、五十一至五十三篇。

　　In the Lord's parable of the sower...some seeds fell...on the rocky places [Matt. 13:5]....When the seed falls into this kind of ground, it springs up quickly, but as soon as the sun comes out, it withers because of the lack of root. What is a root? It is growth that occurs beneath the soil. What are the leaves? They are growth that occurs above the soil. In other words, roots are the hidden life, whereas leaves are the manifest life. The trouble with many Christians is that, while there is much apparent life, there is very little secret life. In other words, there is the lack of a hidden life....If all your experiences are manifested, then all your growth is upward; there is no downward growth. If this is the case, you are a person who has only leaves without root, and you are on shallow ground.

　　The Christian who parades all his virtues before men and who does not have anything in the depth of his being has no root; he will not be able to stand in the day of trial and temptation.

　　How much [of our experience] would be left if what is known by man was taken away? May God work in us so that we can take root downward.

　　Did Paul disclose all his revelations? Far from it. He wrote, “I know a man [who is himself] in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body I do not know, or outside the body I do not know; God knows) such a one was caught away to the third heaven” (2 Cor. 12:2). He did not divulge this experience until fourteen years later....God's church knew nothing of it;...not one of the apostles had heard of it. Paul's roots were deep beneath the soil.

　　If you want to have Paul's work, then you need to have Paul's “root”; if you want to have Paul's outward conduct, then you need to have Paul's inner life; if you want to have Paul's manifest power, then you need to have Paul's secret experience. The trouble with Christians today is that they cannot keep any spiritual thing or any special experience undisclosed. As soon as they have a little experience, they have to tell it abroad.

　　This does not mean that we should not testify. But we must realize that many...spiritual experiences need to be hidden away and should not be exposed....To be without root is to be without any treasure; it is to be without any hidden life or hidden experiences. It is essential that some of our experiences remain covered; to uncover everything is to lose everything.

　　Whatever secrets we have with the Lord must be preserved....Only if He moves within us to reveal something, dare we reveal it. If He wants us to share some experience with a brother, we dare not withhold it, for that would be violating a law of the members of the Body of Christ. One law of the members of the Body of Christ is fellowship. Once we suppress this law, the flow stops. We must be positive, not negative, and minister life to others....I trust we shall learn what the Body of Christ is and what the flow of life among the members is; but I trust we shall also learn the need for safeguarding the hidden part we have before the Lord, the experiences which are not known to others.

　　If our life has no depth, our superficial work will only affect other lives superficially. We repeat yet again—only “deep calls unto deep.” (CWWN, vol. 37, “Deep Calls unto Deep,” pp. 37-40, 42-44)

　　Further Reading: CWWN, vol. 37, ch. 7, “Deep Calls unto Deep”; CWWN, vol. 38, ch. 66; Life-study of Colossians, msgs. 44, 51-53