诗五3　　耶和华啊，……早晨我必向你陈明我的心意，并要守望。

　　九十14　求你使我们在早晨饱得你的慈爱，好叫我们一生欢呼喜乐。

　　启二二16　……我是大卫的根，又是他的后裔，我是明亮的晨星。

　　　二28　　我又要把晨星赐给他。

　　清早是遇见主、与主有来往、与主有交通最好的时候。吗哪总是在日出以前收取的（出十六14~21）。人要吃神给他的粮食，总应当清早起来。日头一出来，吗哪融化了，就吃不到了。你在神面前要得着属灵的培养，要得着属灵的造就，要有属灵的交通，有分属灵的粮食，就得早一点起来。起迟了就吃不到吗哪。在清早的时候，神特别要将祂属灵的食物，圣别的交通，分给祂的儿女。……所有认识神的人，都经常的在清早起来，到神面前去交通。

　　应当把我们一天之中最好的时候，清晨的时候，用在神面前。有些基督徒是把一天的时间都花在别的事上，等到晚上最累的时候，快要到床上去睡的时候，才在那里跪下来读圣经、祷告。怪不得他圣经读不好，怪不得他祷告不好，怪不得他与主的交通不好。……我们一信主，就要学习在清早的时候划出时间来，与神交通，与神来往（初信造就上册，一九○至一九二页）。

　　Psa. 5:3 O Jehovah,…in the morning I will set forth my words in order to You, and I will watch.

　　90:14 Satisfy us in the morning with Your lovingkindness that we may give a ringing shout and rejoice all our days.

　　Rev. 22:16 …I am the Root and the Offspring of David, the bright morning star.

　　2:28 And to him I will give the morning star.

　　The best time to meet the Lord, to contact Him, and to fellowship with Him is early in the morning. Manna is gathered before the sun rises (Exo. 16:14-21). Anyone who wants to eat God's food should rise up early. When the sun waxes hot, manna melts and is gone. If we want to receive spiritual nourishment and spiritual edification, and if we want to have spiritual fellowship and spiritual supply, we need to rise up early. If we rise up late, the manna will be gone. The early morning is the very time when God dispenses His spiritual food and holy fellowship to His children…. All those who know God rise up early.

　　We should spend the best time of the day—the early morning—before the Lord, rather than in other things. Some Christians spend the whole day on other matters and kneel down to read the Bible and pray only at night when they are about to go to sleep. No wonder they are ineffective in their Bible reading, their prayer, and their fellowship with the Lord….The moment we believe in the Lord, we should set apart the early morning for fellowshipping with God and for contacting Him. (CWWN, vol. 48,”Messages for Building Up New Believers (1),” pp. 165-167)

　　启示录二章二十八节告诉我们，基督将是赐给得胜者的晨星。新约启示，那天上光体所象征的基督，乃是明亮的晨星（启二二16）。整本圣经关于基督的预表，开始于祂是光（创一3），结束于祂是晨星这光体。晨星是在午夜之后，黎明前最黑暗的时刻出现。这指明基督要在这世代临近结束前，在最黑暗的时候，出现如明亮的晨星。……没有一颗星像晨星那样明亮。在最黑暗的时候，得胜者里面有一颗星在照耀。得胜者要得着并享受特别的光，就是基督作为晨星。

　　在新约起头，星是在宗教之外（太二1~6），但在新约末了，星是在召会里。……今天星是在召会里，在众召会中。耶稣基督是那晨星；祂今天行走在众地方召会中间。我们要看晨星，就必须到地方召会去。……我们在宗教里时，感到黑暗，但当主把我们带到召会里，我们就看见了明亮的星。那属天的星今天是在地方召会中。

　　按照彼后一章十九节，晨星是与圣经相联的。……我们若留意申言者的话，我们里面的天就会发亮，并且晨星要在我们心里升起。留意申言者的话，就是注意活的话。这不是仅仅读主的话，乃是进入这话，直到有东西在我们里面升起。我们可以称之为黎明或晨星。十九节的晨星，希腊文是phosphorus（磷），是一种带光物质。……基督是真正的磷，照耀在今日的黑暗中。……我们必须留意〔主的话〕，直到我们里面有东西开始照耀我们。这个照耀会成为我们心中神圣的“磷”。然后我们会有晨星。我们会像马太二章那些星象家一样，从天上有东西照耀我们。我们必须来到确定的话跟前，将我们的全人—我们的口、我们的眼、我们的心思、我们的灵和我们的心—向这话敞开，直到基督这晨星在我们里面升起，并且照耀我们（新约总论第十四册，九四至九六页）。

　　参读：初信造就，第十一篇；新约总论，第一百一十三、四百零七、四百一十一篇；生命的认识，第十四篇。

　　Revelation 2:28 tells us that Christ will give the morning star to the overcomers. The New Testament reveals that Christ, who is signified by the heavenly luminaries, the lights, is the bright morning star (22:16). Concerning the types of Christ, the entire Bible begins with Him as the light (Gen. 1:3) and ends with Him as the morning star, a luminary. The morning star appears in the darkest hour, after midnight and prior to the dawn. This indicates that Christ will appear as the bright morning star in the darkest time, prior to the close of this age.

　　No star is as bright as the morning star. At the darkest time, within the overcomers there is a star shining. The overcomers will have and enjoy the particular light, Christ as the morning star. At the beginning of the New Testament the star was outside of religion (Matt. 2:1-6), but at the end of the New Testament the star is within the church….Today the star is in the church and among the churches. Jesus Christ, who is the morning star, is walking today among the local churches. To see the star, we must come to the local churches….When we are in religion, we have the sense of being in darkness, but when the Lord brings us into the churches, we see the bright star. The heavenly star today is in the local churches.

　　According to 2 Peter 1:19, the morning star is associated with the Bible….If we take heed to the word of prophecy, the day will dawn within us, and the morning star will arise in our hearts. To take heed to the prophetic word is to pay attention to the living Word. It is not simply to read the Word; it is to enter into the Word until something arises within us. We may call this the dawn, or the morning star. In 2 Peter 1:19 the term”morning star” in Greek is phosphoros, a light-bearing substance….Christ is the real phosphorus shining in today's darkness….We must take heed [to the Word] until something begins to shine within us. That shining will become the divine”phosphorus” in our heart. Then we will have the morning star. We will be like the wise men, and something from the heavens will shine over us. We must come to the sure Word and open up our whole being to the Word—our mouth, our eyes, our mind, our spirit, and our heart—until Christ as the morning star rises up in us and shines over us. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, pp. 4190-4192)

　　Further Reading: CWWN, vol. 48, ch. 11; The Conclusion of the New Testament, msgs. 113, 407, 411; CWWL, 1953, vol. 3,”The Knowledge of Life,” ch. 14