西二19 ……持定元首；本于祂，全身借着节和筋，得了丰富的供应，并结合一起，就以神的增长而长大。

　　　一4 因听见你们对基督耶稣的信，并对众圣徒的爱。

　　保罗在歌罗西二章十九节没有说到基督，乃是说到持定元首。〔十七节的〕基督一辞〔在十九节〕更换成元首，原因在于我们对主的享受，使我们对基督的身体有感觉。如果我们是不断享受基督的人，我们就不会仍旧单独。……我们越享受基督，就越对身体有感觉。……白天享受主，晚上却忽略了召会—祂的身体—的聚会，这不是正常的。即使你的环境不许可你参加所有的聚会，你里面也该有个感觉说，你整个内里的人都是在召会的聚会中与众圣徒同在的。这种对身体的感觉乃是来自对基督的享受（歌罗西书生命读经，六○九页）。

　　Col. 2:19 And not holding the Head, out from whom all the Body, being richly supplied and knit together by means of the joints and sinews, grows with the growth of God.

　　1:4 Because we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and the love which you have unto all the saints.

　　In Colossians 2:19 Paul speaks not of Christ, but of holding the Head. The reason for the change in terminology from Christ [in verse 17] to the Head is that our enjoyment of the Lord causes us to become conscious of the Body. If we are those who enjoy Christ continually, we shall not continue to be individualistic....The more we enjoy Christ, the more we become Body-conscious.... It is not normal to enjoy the Lord during the day and neglect the meetings of the church, which is His Body. Even if your environment does not allow you to attend all the meetings, inwardly you should have the sense that your whole inner being is with the saints in the church meeting. This consciousness of the Body comes from the enjoyment of Christ. (Life-study of Colossians, p. 491)

　　我们越享受基督，我们对身体的渴望就越强。然而，我们若是一段时间没有接触主，我们自然而然就会忽略召会生活，或对聚会失去兴趣。……这样缺少对基督的享受，就给仇敌撒但开门，让他进来使我们批评身体上别的肢体。但如果我们又开始享受主，门就渐渐关上了。我们若一直享受基督，最终门就完全关上。然后我们就不再批评召会，反而为着召会生活赞美主，并且见证我们是何等的宝爱召会生活。带进这一种改变的，不是劝勉，也不是改正，乃是恢复对基督的享受。

　　这亲爱、宝贵的一位，乃是我们所享受，作我们食物、饮料、气息的那一位；祂就是身体的元首。保罗因着对这件事有透彻的认识，他就能从基督作一切正面事物的实际给我们享受，跳到基督作元首这件事上。我们所享受作一切的基督既是身体的元首，我们越享受祂，就越对身体有感觉。这指明享受基督不是单独的事，乃是身体的事。我们这些身体上的肢体，必须以团体的方式来享受基督。

　　保罗在歌罗西二章十九节说到“全身”。对基督的享受，保守我们这些身体上的肢体成为一。我们越享受基督，就越宝爱身体上别的肢体。对基督的享受使我们爱召会生活中的每一个人；连我们爱不来的人，也都成了我们所亲爱的、所宝贵的。然而，我们若不持续享受基督，我们就会轻看召会中的一些人。事实上，召会和圣徒还是一样，只是我们的态度改变了。但如果有人把基督供应给我们，而我们重新开始享受主，身体上所有的肢体就再次变得可爱了。我们会有一种甜美的感觉，我们既是身体上的肢体，就宝爱所有的肢体。

　　因着基督作元首是在复活里，享受基督自然而然就把我们带到复活里，并拯救我们脱离天然的人。我们都是天然的，如果我们没有借着享受基督而被带到复活里，我们就会留在天然的人里面。赞美主，享受基督就把我们带到复活里！我们享受祂越多，我们的天然就越少。这也不仅是道理，乃是基督徒经历的事实（歌罗西书生命读经，六○九至六一二页）。

　　参读：歌罗西书生命读经，第十五、二十四至二十五、三十五、四十五、五十六至五十七篇。

　　The more we enjoy Christ, the more intense is our desire for the Body. However, if we fail to contact the Lord for a period of time, we shall automatically neglect the church life or lose interest in the meetings....This shortage of the enjoyment of Christ opens the door for the enemy, Satan, to come in to make us critical of other members of the Body. But if we begin again to enjoy the Lord, the door will gradually close. Eventually, if we are constant in our enjoyment of Christ, the door will be completely shut. Then, instead of criticizing the church, we shall praise the Lord for the church life, and we shall testify how much we love it. What brings about such a change is not admonition or correction, but the recovery of the enjoyment of Christ.

　　The dear, precious One whom we enjoy as our food, drink, and breath is the Head of the Body. Because Paul had a thorough realization of this, he could leap from Christ as the reality of all positive things for our enjoyment to the matter of Christ as the Head. Since the Christ we enjoy as our everything is the Head of the Body, the more we enjoy Him, the more we become Body-conscious. This indicates that the enjoyment of Christ is not an individualistic matter. It is a Body matter. We need to enjoy Christ as members of the Body in a corporate way.

　　In Colossians 2:19 Paul speaks of “all the Body.” The enjoyment of Christ keeps us one as members of the Body. The more we enjoy Christ, the more we love the other members of the Body. The enjoyment of Christ causes us to love everyone in the church life. Even those whom we find it difficult to love become dear and precious to us. However, if we do not keep on enjoying Christ, we shall despise certain ones in the church. Actually, the church and the saints remain the same; it is our attitude that changes. But if the supply of Christ is ministered to us and we begin to enjoy Him again, all the members of the Body will once again become lovable to us. We shall have the pleasant realization that, as members of the Body, we love all the other members.

　　Because Christ’s headship is in resurrection, the enjoyment of Christ spontaneously brings us into resurrection and saves us from our natural being. We all are natural. If we are not brought into resurrection through the enjoyment of Christ, we shall remain in our natural person. Praise the Lord that the enjoyment of Christ brings us into resurrection! The more we enjoy Him, the less natural we are. Once again, this is not a mere doctrine, but a fact of Christian experience. (Life-study of Colossians, pp. 491-493)

　　Further Reading: Life-study of Colossians, msgs. 15, 24-25, 35, 45, 56-57