林后四16 所以我们不丧胆，反而我们外面的人虽然在毁坏，我们里面的人却日日在更新。

　　腓三10 使我认识基督、并祂复活的大能、以及同祂受苦的交通，模成祂的死。

　　我们或许是在召会里蒙主保守的好圣徒，但我们有否得着神圣元素的更新？我们身上是否有一些更新在发生，还是日日、年年维持原样？我们若受了许多苦，而仍旧维持原样，那是可悲的。神为要完成祂在我们里面并在我们身上更新的工作，就成为在我们里面的生命与性情。除此之外，神也是主宰万有的主，管治全宇宙，为要更新我们。神使用四围的环境，好将祂的生命与性情作到我们里面。没有四围的环境，我们永远不能得更新；我们会维持原样（日日在更新，一八至一九页）。

　　2 Cor. 4:16 Therefore we do not lose heart; but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day.

　　Phil. 3:10 To know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death.

　　We may be good saints in the church who have been kept and preserved by the Lord, but have we been renewed with the divine element? Is there some renewing going on with us, or are we remaining the same day by day and year after year? It would be tragic if we would pass through many sufferings and still remain the same. In order to consummate His renewing work in us and with us, God becomes our life and nature within. In addition to this, God as the sovereign Lord controls the entire universe in order to renew us. God uses the environment in order to work His life and nature into us. Without the environment, we could never be renewed. We would remain the same. (CWWL, 1989, vol. 2, “Being Renewed Day by Day,” p. 358)

　　我们的习惯也许很强，我们的所是也很强。但神的意思不只是管教或改正我们，乃是用外在的环境难为我们、提醒我们、唤醒我们，使我们领悟我们虽有神作我们的性情，我们却不照祂的性情活祂。……我们也许照着我们的个性、所是与习惯管教〔我们的儿女〕，所以神用环境把我们摆进“监牢”里；借此祂提醒我们要祷告，而我们祷告最终的结果不仅是我们被改正了，我们也得更新了。以后当我们管教儿女时，就会想一想我们是在自己里面，还是同着神并借着神管教儿女。……现今我们有神在我们对儿女的管教里，我们的管教成了人而神的管教。

　　我们是因着神加到我们里面，因着有更多神的元素加到我们里面而更新。……真实的基督徒生活乃是在早晨、在晚上，天天都有神加到我们里面。……有时候神可能允许召会经过“风暴”。神许可这“风暴”发生，因为神要我们得更新。我们若在“风暴”中受了苦，却还保持一样，没有更新，这是可悲的事。……我们必须祷告：“主啊，我不要保持一样。我不要今年跟去年一样。我要日日得更新。”神的心意是要我们日日得更新。为要得更新，我们需要神每日新鲜地加增到我们里面。

　　神的心意完全是要使我们成为新的。这不是一夜之间的事，乃是需要我们一生中很长的时间；也需要我们接触神、接受神，使神整天加增到我们里面；更需要我们祷告、认罪并拒绝己，好取用基督的十字架。取用基督的十字架乃是杀死，这杀死就是死。这死带进复活；在这复活里，我们里面神的生命就会发挥更新的性能，我们就会有新陈代谢的改变。这更新的过程需要一段年日。

　　每时每刻我们都需要接受神，使祂能加到我们里面；我们也必须拒绝己，好接受基督的死，使我们能与我们里面的主合作。这样，我们就会享受更新的性能，也会享受更新的结果，就是我们在行为、性格、个性上甚至在习惯上，有新陈代谢的改变。最难更新的是我们的习惯。当我们天天在基督里经历神，我们就会看见神的心意是要一点一点地更新我们，特别是更新我们的习惯（日日在更新，一九至二○、二二、二五至二六页）。

　　参读：那灵同我们的灵，第十三章；三一神终极完成之灵与信徒重生之灵联结的果效，第三篇。

　　We may be strong in our habit and strong in what we are. God's intention is not merely to chastise or correct us, but to use the outward environment to trouble us, to remind us, and to wake us up to realize that we have God as our nature, yet we do not live Him according to His nature. We may discipline [our children] according to our disposition, our being, and our habit. God, therefore, uses the environment to put us into “prison.” Then we are reminded to pray and the eventual outcome of our prayer is not merely that we get corrected but that we get renewed. Then when we are going to discipline our children, we will consider whether we are disciplining them in ourselves or with God and through God….Now God is in our disciplining of our children, and our disciplining them becomes a human-divine disciplining.

　　We are renewed by the addition of God into our being, by having more of the divine element added into our being…. The real Christian life is to have God added into us morning and evening and day by day. Sometimes God may allow the church to pass through a “storm.” God may allow this “storm” to occur because He wants us to be renewed. The tragic thing is that while we are suffering in the “storm,” we would remain the same with no renewing…. We have to pray, “Lord, I don't want to remain the same. I do not want to remain the same this year as I was last year. I want to be renewed day by day.” God's intention is for us to be renewed day by day. In order to be renewed, we need the new addition of God into us daily.

　　God's intention is altogether to make us new. This is not an overnight matter. It takes a long time in our life, and it requires us to contact God, to receive God, and to get God added into us all the day. It requires us to pray, confessing our sins and rejecting ourselves to take the cross of Christ. To take the cross of Christ is a killing, and this killing is death. This death brings in resurrection, and in this resurrection the divine life in us will carry out its renewing capacity. Then we will be changed metabolically. This process of renewing takes a period of years.

　　Moment by moment we have to receive God so that He can be added into us, and we have to reject ourselves to receive the death of Christ so that we can cooperate with the Lord within us. Then we will enjoy not only the renewing capacity but also the renewing result, which is a metabolic change in our behavior, in our character, in our disposition, and even in our habit. The most difficult thing to renew is our habit. When we experience God in Christ daily, we will see that God's intention is to renew us bit by bit, especially to renew our habit. (CWWL, 1989, vol. 2, “Being Renewed Day by Day,” pp. 359-361, 363)

　　Further Reading: CWWL, 1993, vol. 2, “The Spirit with Our Spirit,” ch. 13; CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 2, “The Issue of the Union of the Consummated Spirit of the Triune God and the Regenerated Spirit of the Believers,” ch. 3