约壹一7　但我们若在光中行，如同神在光中，就彼此有交通，祂儿子耶稣的血也洗净我们一切的罪。

　　　　　9　我们若认自己的罪，神是信实的，是公义的，必要赦免我们的罪，洗净我们一切的不义。

　　我们里面有许多层需要挖透。我们有一层是良心，有一层是心，……还有一层是我们的心思，这一层含有许多污秽。我们不知道每一天有多少幻想！我们不仅晚上睡觉作梦，白天清醒时也作白日梦。我们所有的幻想都是不同的梦。……撒但蒙蔽了我们的心思，他就是利用幻想来作这事。有时候你在听一篇信息，你的心思可能已经到月球去旅行了。外面看来你一直点头，但是你里面的心思却在幻想太空的事。信息释放的时候，声音你是听见了，却什么也没有得到。你的心思已经被幻想蒙蔽了。……你的心思里有许多污秽，你里面的活水怎么能自由涌流呢？……那些成堆的污秽就是那许多的思想、幻想和梦想，这些都必须挖去，活水才能自由涌流（CWWL一九六四年第三册，二九○页）。

　　1 John 1:7 But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from every sin.

　　9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

　　[There are] many layers in us through which we have to dig. We have a layer of the conscience, a layer of the heart, and…a layer of our mind, which holds much dirt. We do not know how many imaginations we have day by day. We not only dream during the night while we are asleep, but we are still dreaming during the day while we are awake. All our imaginations are different dreams….Satan blinds our minds…merely by the imaginations. Sometimes while you are listening to a message, I do not know where your mind is perhaps it has traveled to the moon! Outwardly you are nodding your head, but inwardly your mind is imagining something in space. During the message you hear the voice, but you do not receive anything. Your mind has been blinded by imaginations. When there is a lot of dirt in your mind, how can the flow of living water within you be free?… The heaps of dirt are simply the many thoughts, imaginations, and dreams, which must be dug away before the living water can freely flow. (CWWL, 1964, vol. 3,”The Economy of God,” pp. 229-230)

　　意志也包含了许多污秽。完全绝对顺服主的人并不多。我们的意志需要更多顺服。多少时候我们并不顺服神主宰的安排。有时候，我们自以为相当顺服主了，但是祂把我们摆在某些环境里的时候，就把我们暴露出来。顺服看不见的主很容易，但要顺服看得见的人就相当困难了。你也许说，“我顺服主，我和主没有问题；但是……。”你有个很大的“但是”。……对于召会里的圣徒，你却不能顺服！主特意把你摆在你所在的地方召会中，就是要破碎你的意志。……“倘若我的丈夫是一位亲爱的弟兄，我就会乐意顺服他了。”姊妹们常有这种想法！……主给你这样一个合式的丈夫，他正是你所需要的丈夫。倘若你得着梦想中的丈夫，你的光景就绝不会暴露出来。在祂的主宰下，许多经历和环境不过是要把我们暴露在光中，叫我们知道我们的意志是多顽固。……若要活水在我们里面涌流，我们必须被挖透。涌流是主的事，而挖掘是我们的事。我们需要挖掘自己。

　　我们挖去意志里的污秽以后，就需要对付我们的情感。……当我们感情用事时，我们就被己所霸占了，我们受了情感的控制和捆绑。……我们很容易喜欢一件东西，不喜欢另一件东西。……我们的意志不容易改变，但是我们的情感很容易刻变时翻。我们的情感比天气还要变化多端。

　　要忘掉你的需要、你的职业、你的前途和你的环境；只要寻求主的同在，求祂将你带进光中，然后顺从祂的光除去良心、心、心思、意志和情感里的污秽。你越把污秽除去，你就越活。……你必须维持活水的涌流—就是生命的交通在你里面自由涌流。当活水在你里面自由涌流时，你就得胜了。所有的问题就要自然而然，甚至不知不觉地解决了。

　　我们必须更多花时间亲近主，并且按着祂在里面的引导来祷告。我们必须照着那引导认罪，并且将里面所有的污秽挖去。……有时候我们需要与别人一同祷告，但是个人的祷告使挖掘更奏效。个人更多花时间亲近主，是极其需要的。所有良心、心、心思、意志和情感里的污秽，都必须借着祷告来挖除（CWWL一九六四年第三册，二九一至二九三页）。

　　参读：神的经营，第十章。

　　The will also contains much dirt. There are not many who are absolutely and utterly obedient to the Lord. We need to be more submissive in our will. How many times we do not submit ourselves to the Lord's sovereign arrangement! Sometimes we think that we are quite submissive to the Lord, but when He puts us into certain circumstances, we are exposed. It is easy to submit to the invisible Lord, but it is rather difficult to submit to visible persons. You say,”I am submissive to the Lord. With the Lord I have no problem. But…” Yes, there is a big but!”…But with the church…Oh, I cannot be submissive to them!” The Lord especially put you into your local church in order to break your will.

　　“If my husband could be such a dear brother, I would gladly be submissive to him.” How many times have you sisters thought this?…The Lord gave you such a suitable husband; he is just the husband you need. If you could have the husband of your dreams, you would never be exposed. Many experiences and circumstances under His sovereignty simply expose us to the light so that we may know how stubborn our will is…. If the living water is to flow in us, we must be dug. The flowing is the Lord's business, but the digging is our business. We have to dig ourselves.

　　After digging away the dirt from the will, we need to deal with our emotion… When we are emotional, we are occupied with ourselves. We are under the control and bondage of our emotions….It is so easy for us to like one thing and dislike another….It is not very easy to change our will, but it is easy to have many changes in our emotions. Our emotions fluctuate even more than the weather.

　　Forget about your needs, your job, your future, and your circumstances. Only seek the Lord's presence, and ask Him to bring you into His light. Then follow His light to dig away the dirt in your conscience, heart, mind, will, and emotion. The more you dig away the dirt, the more you will be alive….You must maintain the flow of living water, that is, the fellowship of life flowing freely within you. When the living water flows freely within you, then there is victory. All the problems will be solved spontaneously and even unconsciously.

　　We have to spend more and more time with the Lord and pray according to His inner leading. According to that leading, we must confess and dig away all the dirt within us….Sometimes we need to pray with others, but the digging prayer is more prevailing in privacy. It is extremely necessary to spend more private time with the Lord. All the dirt within the conscience, heart, mind, will, and emotion must be dug away by our prayers. (CWWL, 1964, vol. 3,”The Economy of God,” pp. 230-232)

　　Further Reading: CWWL, 1964, vol. 3,”The Economy of God,” ch. 10