出三8　 我下来要救他们脱离埃及人的手，领他们从那地出来，上到美好、宽阔、流奶与蜜之地……。

　　西一12 感谢父，叫你们够资格在光中同得所分给众圣徒的分。

　　奶与蜜乃是两种生命—动物生命和植物生命—结合而成的产品。奶产自吃草的牛，蜜由蜜蜂采花蜜而成。奶与蜜表征基督的丰富来自祂生命的两方面—动物生命所预表祂救赎的生命（约一29），以及植物生命所预表祂生产的生命（十二24）。（圣经恢复本，出三8注2）。

　　每当我们来到主的桌子前享受基督这包罗万有的一位，在我们的经历中，我们就在美地享受那地的丰富。这就是说，美地成了给我们享受的桌子，筵席。在这桌子，这筵席前，我们得着满足，神也得着满足。我们若看见这点，就会领悟，进入美地就是来到主的桌子前。……这桌子是给我们享受的筵席。……我们领会来到这桌子前就是享受基督作美地，这是很要紧的（哥林多前书生命读经，五三一至五三二页）。

　　Exo. 3:8 And I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, to a land flowing with milk and honey...

　　Col. 1:12 Giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you for a share of the allotted portion of the saints in the light.

　　Both milk and honey are products of the combination of two kinds of lives—the animal life and the vegetable life. Milk is produced by cattle that feed on grass, and honey is made by bees from the nectar of flowers. Milk and honey signify the riches of Christ, which come from the two aspects of His life—His redeeming life, typified by the animal life (John 1:29), and His generating life, typified by the vegetable life (John 12:24). (Exo. 3:8, footnote 2)

　　Whenever we come to the Lord’s table to enjoy Christ as the all-inclusive One, in our experience we are in the good land enjoying the riches of the land. This means that the good land has become a table, a feast, for our enjoyment. At this table, this feast, we are satisfied, and God is satisfied also. If we see this, we shall realize that to enter into the good land is to come to the Lord’s table. The table is a feast for our enjoyment.... It is crucial for us to understand that to come to the table is to enjoy Christ as the good land. (Life-study of 1 Corinthians, pp. 448-449)

　　许多人读到歌罗西一章十二节，也许没有注意“在光中”这辞。我们的分—基督，乃是我们在光中所享受的。

　　在约翰八章十二节，主耶稣说，祂是世界的光，跟从祂的，就绝不在黑暗里行，必要得着生命的光。但我们若不跟从祂这光，我们就要在黑暗里。

　　约壹一章五节说，神就是光。唯有祂是光的源头。神的话、基督、基督的生命、信徒和召会都能够是光，因为有神作其源头。

　　诗篇一百一十九篇一百零五节说，神的话是我们脚前的灯，是我们路上的光；一百三十节说，神的言语一解开，就发出亮光。神的话是光，因为神的话包含了神。……圣经的源头是神，而神就是光。所以，圣经的话乃是光的照耀。

　　在约翰九章五节，主耶稣说，“我在世界的时候，是世界的光。”神与基督原为一。神既是光，基督也就是光。基督以非常明确的方式作世界的光。……基督不是以笼统的方式，乃是以明确的方式，作社会、作人类的光。

　　基督的生命也是光。一章四节说，“生命在祂里面，这生命就是人的光。”我们接受基督作生命的时候，这生命就成了我们里面的光，照耀我们，并且从里面光照我们。

　　凡相信基督的人也是光。主耶稣论到信徒说，“你们是世上的光。”（太五14）在腓立比二章十五节，保罗说，信徒“好像发光之体显在世界里”。发光之体，原文指返照太阳光的光体。光体本身没有光，却返照从别的光源而来的光。信徒们乃是发光之体。我们在自己里面没有光。光是从我们里面焚烧的油（就是那灵）来的。我们的光源不是我们自己，乃是作为那灵的基督。

　　在启示录一章二十节，我们看见召会是灯台，托住并支持焚烧的灯。这灯就是基督，有神在祂里面作光（二一23）。在宇宙中只有一种光，就是神自己。三一神乃是独一的光（歌罗西书生命读经，六四至六八页）。

　　参读：哥林多前书生命读经，第五十篇；歌罗西书生命读经，第七篇。

　　Many may read Colossians 1:12 without paying attention to the phrase in the light. Christ, our portion, is to be enjoyed by us in the light.

　　In John 8:12 the Lord Jesus said that He is the light of the world and that whoever follows Him will not walk in darkness, but have the light of life. However, if we do not follow Him as the light, we shall be in darkness.

　　First John 1:5 says that God is light. He alone is the source of light. The Word of God, Christ, the life of Christ, the believers, and the church can all be light because they have God as their source.

　　Psalm 119:105 says that the Word of God is a lamp to our feet and a light to our path, and 119:130 says that the opening of God’s words gives light. The Word of God is light because it contains God....The source of the Bible is God, and God is light. Therefore, the words of the Bible are the shining of light.

　　In John 9:5 the Lord Jesus said, “While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” God and Christ are one. Since God is light, Christ also is light. Christ is the light of the world in a very definite way....Christ is the light not just in a general way, but in a definite way as the light of society, of mankind.

　　The life of Christ is also light. John 1:4 says, “In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.” When we receive Christ as life, this life becomes light in us, shining upon us and enlightening us from within.

　　Those who believe in Christ are also the light. Speaking of the believers, the Lord Jesus said, “You are the light of the world” (Matt. 5:14). In Philippians 2:15 Paul says that the believers “shine as lights in the world” (KJV). The Greek for lights is better rendered luminaries. A luminary does not have light in itself; it reflects light that comes from another source. The believers are luminaries. In ourselves we have no light. The light comes from the oil, the Spirit, burning within us. The source of our light is not ourselves, but Christ as the Spirit.

　　In Revelation 1:20 we see that the church is a lampstand, a stand that holds and supports a burning lamp. The lamp is Christ with God in Him as light (Rev. 21:23). In the universe there is one light, God Himself. The Triune God is the unique light. (Life-study of Colossians, pp. 55-57)

　　Further Reading: Life-study of 1 Corinthians, msg. 50; Life-study of Colossians, msg. 7