弗三16~17 愿祂照着祂荣耀的丰富，借着祂的灵，用大能使你们得以加强到里面的人里，使基督借着信，安家在你们心里……。

　　六17~18 ……借着各样的祷告和祈求，接受……那灵的剑，那灵就是神的话；时时在灵里祷告，并尽力坚持，在这事上儆醒，且为众圣徒祈求。

　　保罗在歌罗西三章十六节嘱咐我们，要让基督的话丰丰富富地住在我们里面，……在我们里面安家。……如果一个地方成了我们的家，我们必定有自由作必要的安排。如果我们想要保存一样东西，我们就可以保存。如果我们想要把某样东西扔掉，我们也有自由扔掉。如果我们没有这样的自由，我们就不可能在那里安家。照样，如果基督的话要在我们里面安家，我们就必须给基督的话完全的主权、自由和权利。我们要祷告说，“主，我把全人献给你和你的话。我让你进入我里面的每一部分。主，把我内里的所是作成你自己和你话语的家。”（歌罗西书生命读经，七一三至七一四页）

　　Eph. 3:16-17 Be strengthened with power through His Spirit into the inner man, that Christ may make His home in your hearts through faith…

　　6:17-18 …Receive…the sword of the Spirit, which Spirit is the word of God, by means of all prayer and petition, praying at every time in spirit and watching unto this in all perseverance and petition concerning all the saints.

　　In Colossians 3:16 Paul charges us to let the word of Christ dwell in us richly,…make its home in us. If a certain place is to become our home, we must have the freedom to make all necessary arrangements. If we want to keep a certain item, we may do so. But if we want to throw something else away, we are free to do that as well. If we do not have this kind of freedom, it is not possible for us to make that place our home. In like manner, if the word of Christ is to make its home in us, we must give it the full liberty, freedom, and right. We need to pray, “Lord, I offer my whole being to You and Your word. I give You access to every part of my inner being. Lord, make my inner being a home for Yourself and Your word.” (Life-study of Colossians, p. 574)

　　我们都必须承认，许多时候主的话临到了我们，但我们里面没有给主的话充分的地位。我们反倒限制了神的话，约束了神的话。有时候我们的确接受了神的话，但我们没有让神的话自由地安家在我们里面。我问你，在你的经历中，是基督的话第一，还是你第一？我不信有谁能说，他始终是让神的话居首位。有时候我们也许让基督的话居首位，让基督的话为首。然而，更多的时候是我们自己为首。我们暗地里让己居首位。我们外面的行动好像是把首位留给神的话，暗地里却是把首位留给我们自己。

　　我们需要基督的平安作仲裁来保守我们在一里，使基督能对我们说话。然后我们需要让神的话居首位。如果我们这样作，我们就经历神话语的功用：光照、滋养、解渴、加强、洗涤、建造、成全和造就。我们从神的话所得着的是何等的益处！（歌罗西书生命读经，七一四至七一五页）。

　　我们每天若不从话得喂养，就不可能活基督。我在属灵上很健康，因为我每天都吃、消化并吸收话，得着这话的喂养。……神已使基督成为我们的生命和一切，并且祂已命定我们活基督。我们若活基督，就会是地上最蒙福的人。我们会有喜乐、满足和各样祝福。如我们所指出的，活基督的路就是将祂的话接受到我们里面，并且被这话充满。

　　要将话接受到我们这人里面，我们不该仅仅读这话，也该将我们的读与祷告、歌唱、颂咏和呼求主名调和。每当我打开神的话，或是为着工作，或是为着自己的滋养，我都浸沉在祷告的气氛和气息里。我常常借着我所读的经文与主交谈。这样我就被注入并得滋养，在我灵里被活的话充满，这话实际上就是基督自己，也就是那灵。

　　有人也许听见关于活基督的信息，然后祷告：“主，我要活你。我定意从现在起活基督。请帮助我这样作。”然而，这样的祷告没有功效。这好比你求主使你健康，却不好好地吃。你若不吃营养的食物，定意要健康是没有用的。同样，我们若没有被主的话滋养，定意活基督是无效的。唯有借着吃主的话，我们才能活基督（腓立比书生命读经，四三五至四三六页）。

　　参读：基督徒生活与召会生活极重要的原则，第二章；歌罗西书生命读经，第六十四篇。

　　We all must confess that many times the Lord’s word has come to us, but we did not give it adequate room within us. Instead, we limited the word of God and restricted it. Sometimes we do receive God’s word, but we do not give it the freedom to make its home in us. Let me ask you, in your experience is the word of Christ first, or are you first? I do not believe that anyone can say that first place is always given to God’s word. Sometimes we may give preeminence to the word of Christ and allow it to be first. However, much more often we ourselves are first. In a secret way we keep the first place for the self. Outwardly we may act as if the first place is reserved for the word of God. But secretly the first place is for us.

　　We need the arbitrating peace of Christ to preserve us in oneness that the Lord may speak to us. Then we need to give first place to the word of God. If we do this, we shall experience the functions of the word of God: enlightening, nourishing, quenching our thirst, strengthening, washing, building, perfecting, and edifying. What benefit we receive from the word of God! (Life-study of Colossians, pp. 574-575)

　　If we do not feed on the Word daily, it will not be possible for us to live Christ. I am healthy spiritually because daily I eat, digest, and assimilate the Word and am nourished by it. God has made Christ to be our life and our everything, and He has destined us to live Christ. If we live Christ, we shall be the most blessed people on earth. We shall have joy, satisfaction, and every blessing. As we have pointed out, the way to live Christ is to receive His word into us and be filled with it.

　　In order to receive the Word into our being, we should not merely read the Word, but should mingle our reading with prayer, singing, psalming, and calling on the name of the Lord. Whenever I open the Word of God, either for the work or for my own nourishment, I am immersed in the atmosphere and aspiration of prayer. Often I converse with the Lord by means of the verse I am reading. In this way I am infused and nourished, filled in my spirit with the living Word, which is actually Christ Himself as the Spirit.

　　Someone may hear a message on living Christ and then pray, “Lord, I want to live You. I make up my mind to live Christ from now on. Please help me do this.” This kind of prayer, however, is not effective. It can be compared to asking the Lord to make you healthy when you do not eat properly….Likewise, if we are not nourished by the Word, it will be to no avail to make up our minds to live Christ. Only by eating the Word can we live Christ. (Life-study of Philippians, pp. 364-365)

　　Further Reading: CWWL, 1978, vol. 2, “Crucial Principles for the Christian Life and the Church Life,” ch. 2; Life-study of Colossians, msg. 64