耶十五16 耶和华万军之神啊，我得着你的言语，就当食物吃了；你的言语成了我心中的欢喜快乐；因我是称为你名下的人。

　　约六57~58 活的父怎样差我来，我又因父活着，照样，那吃我的人，也要因我活着。这就是从天上降下来的粮，吃这粮的人，就永远活着……。

　　〔耶利米十五章十六节〕指明神的话适合给我们享受。神的言语使我们的心喜乐。这里重要的，就是启示神的话是神圣的供应，作食物滋养我们。每种食物都有滋养的元素。神的话，神圣的供应，的确包含滋养的元素。这滋养与神圣的分赐，就是与神将祂自己分赐到我们里面有关。借着作我们食物的话，神将祂的丰富分赐到我们里面的人里，滋养我们，使我们得以由祂的元素所构成（耶利米书生命读经，一四三页）。

　　Jer. 15:16 Your words were found and I ate them, and Your word became to me the gladness and joy of my heart, for I am called by Your name, O Jehovah, God of hosts.

　　John 6:57-58 As the living Father has sent Me and I live because of the Father, so he who eats Me, he also shall live because of Me. This is the bread which came down out of heaven…; he who eats this bread shall live forever.

　　[Jeremiah 15:16] indicates that the word of God is good for us to enjoy. God’s word makes our heart joyful. What is crucial here is the revelation that God’s word is the divine supply as food to nourish us. Every kind of food has a nourishing element. God’s word, the divine supply, surely contains the element of nourishment. This nourishment is related to the divine dispensing, to God’s dispensing Himself into us. Through the word as our food, God is dispensing His riches into our inner being to nourish us that we may be constituted with His element. (Life-study of Jeremiah, p. 116)

　　神圣的观念乃是：从主来的话是给我们吃的食物，是作我们的滋养的。马太四章四节说，“人活着不是单靠食物，乃是靠神口里所出的一切话。”所以关于神的话，神圣的观念乃是：神的话是食物，不仅是为叫我们得着教训，也是为叫我们得着滋养。耶利米十五章十六节说，“我得着你的言语，就当食物吃了。”耶利米把神的话当作食物吃了。林前三章一至二节上半说，“弟兄们，我从前对你们说话，不能把你们当作属灵的，只能当作属肉的，当作在基督里的婴孩。我给你们奶喝，没有给你们干粮。”使徒保罗对于神的话的观念，乃是认为神的话是奶或粮。奶或粮都是给我们吃的，使我们得着滋养。希伯来五章十二至十四节说，“按时间说，你们该作教师；可是你们还需要有人将神谕言开端的要纲教导你们；并且成了那必须用奶，不能吃干粮的人。凡只能享用奶的，对公义的话都是没有经验的，因为他是婴孩；只有长成的人，才能吃干粮，他们的官能因习用而受了操练，就能分辨好坏了。”对于年幼的人，主的话是滋养的奶；对于长成的人，主的话乃是干粮。彼前二章二节说，“像才生的婴孩一样，切慕那纯净的话奶，叫你们靠此长大，以致得救。”这几段话都证实，我们需要更新我们对于神话语的观念。我们对于神话语的天然观念，乃是以为神的话是一种教训或道理，然而神圣的观念乃是：神的话是食物，滋养我们的灵（李文集一九六五年第二册，二三○至二三一页）。

　　在约翰六章主耶稣说，祂是属天的粮给我们吃（32、53~54、56~58）。同章主两次说，“我就是生命的粮。”（35、48）生命的粮是以食物的形态作人生命的供应，就像生命树一样“好作食物”（创二9），作人生命的供应。我们所吃的食物，至终与我们这人调和。我们所接受的食物若没有与我们调和，我们必定是消化不良。我们所吃且消化的食物，就吸收到我们这人里面。食物成了我们的组织、骨、肉和皮。这就是说，我们所吃、所消化、所吸收的食物，实际上成了我们。这必然是调和的事。因此，说我们所吃的食物没有与我们调和，的确是错误的（新约总论第一册，四至五页）。

　　参读：生命信息，第十、二十六、二十九至三十章；生命的经历与长大，第一篇；召会实际并生机的建造，第五章。

　　The divine concept concerning the Word of God is that the word from the Lord is food for us to feed on for our nourishment. Matthew 4:4 says, “Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that proceeds out through the mouth of God.” The divine concept concerning God’s Word is that it is food by which we are not only taught but also nourished. Jeremiah 15:16 says, “Your words were found and I ate them.” Jeremiah took the word as food to eat. First Corinthians 3:1-2a says, “I, brothers, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual men, but as to fleshy, as to infants in Christ. I gave you milk to drink, not solid food.” The apostle Paul’s concept concerning the Word was that the Word was either milk or solid food. Milk or solid food is something for us to feed on in order to be nourished. Hebrews 5:12-14 says, “When because of the time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you what the rudiments of the beginning of the oracles of God are and have become those who have need of milk and not of solid food. For everyone who partakes of milk is inexperienced in the word of righteousness, for he is an infant; but solid food is for the full-grown, who because of practice have their faculties exercised for discriminating between both good and evil.” The Word is nourishment as milk for the young ones and as solid food for the mature ones. First Peter 2:2 says, “As newborn babes, long for the guileless milk of the word in order that by it you may grow unto salvation.” All these passages confirm that we need our concept renewed concerning the Word of God. The natural concept concerning the Word is that it is a certain kind of teaching or doctrine, but the divine concept is that the Word of God is food to nourish our spirit. (CWWL, 1965, vol. 2, “The Tree of Life,” pp. 175-176)

　　In John 6 the Lord Jesus says that He is the heavenly bread for us to eat (vv. 32, 53-54, 56-58). In the same chapter the Lord twice says, “I am the bread of life” (vv. 35, 48). The bread of life is the life supply in the form of food, like the tree of life (Gen. 2:9), which is also the life supply “good for food.” The food we eat eventually is mingled with our being. If the food taken in by us does not mingle with us, we must have poor digestion. The food that we eat and digest is assimilated into our being. The food becomes our tissue, bone, flesh, and skin. This means that the food eaten, digested, and assimilated by us actually becomes us. This surely is a matter of mingling. Therefore, it would certainly be incorrect to say that the food we eat is not mingled with us. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, p. 4)

　　Further Reading: CWWL, 1978, vol. 2, “Life Messages, Volume 1,” chs. 10, 26, 29-30; CWWL, 1989, vol. 3, “The Experience and Growth in Life,” ch. 1; CWWL, 1989, vol. 1, “The Practical and Organic Building Up of the Church,” ch. 5