得三1　　路得的婆婆拿俄米对她说，女儿啊，我不当为你找个安身之处，使你享福么？

　　林后十一2　　我以神的妒忌，妒忌你们，因为我曾把你们许配一个丈夫，要将一个贞洁的童女献给基督。

　　路得记三章显示路得寻找她的安息。我们需要享受基督到得着安息的地步。要得着安息，我们必然需要家。没有一个地方能象家那样，给我们这么多安息。在三章拿俄米提议，甚至推动，为路得得着一个家。

　　路得所采取的步骤，符合我们属灵的经历。…借着相信主耶稣，我们就与祂有生机的联结。如今祂在我们里面，我们也在祂里面。有了这亲密、生机的联结，我们就必须开始追求基督，以得着、据有、经历并享受祂。这由路得使用她的权利，得着并据有美地的出产所预表。路得来到美地以后，就有权利享受那地的出产；照样，我们相信基督以后，也有权利享受祂作我们的美地。

　　然而，我们拾取麦穗以后，还需要一个家，使我们得着定居的安息。这样的安息只能借着婚姻而得。…拿俄米要找一条路，为路得建立一个家（1）。路得若要得着一个家作她的安息，就需要丈夫。拿俄米知道，作路得丈夫合式的人，乃是预表基督的波阿斯（路得记生命读经，二二至二三页）。

　　Ruth 3:1 And Naomi, her mother-in-law, said to her, My daughter, I must seek some resting place for you, that it may go well with you.

　　2 Cor. 11:2 For I am jealous over you with a jealousy of God; for I betrothed you to one husband to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

　　Ruth chapter 3 shows Ruth’s seeking for her rest. We need to enjoy Christ to such an extent that we have rest. In order to have rest, we surely need a home. No place can give us as much rest as our home. In chapter 3 Naomi proposed and even pushed to gain a home for Ruth.

　　The steps taken by Ruth correspond to our spiritual experience…. By believing in the Lord Jesus, we were organically joined to Him. Now He is in us and we are in Him. With this intimate, organic union, we must begin to pursue Christ in order to gain, possess, experience, and enjoy Him. This is typified by Ruth’s exercising of her right to gain and possess the produce of the good land. Just as Ruth had the right to enjoy the produce of the good land after coming into the land, so we have the right to enjoy Christ as our good land after believing in Him.

　　However, after our gleaning we still need a home so that we can have a settled rest. This kind of rest can come only through marriage….Naomi wanted to find a way to establish a home for Ruth [cf. v. 1]. If Ruth was to have a home for her rest, she needed a husband. Naomi realized that the proper person to be Ruth’s husband was Boaz, who typifies Christ. (Life-study of Ruth, pp. 17-18)

　　你与主同在的时候曾说，“主，你是我的丈夫”么？虽然你得救并爱主，你也不会得着一个家作你的安息，直到你嫁给主耶稣，以祂为你的丈夫。

　　在现今的世代，有许多偶像，就如娱乐、运动和购物，使基督徒变得不忠贞。似乎他们从未嫁给基督，从未真正以基督为他们的丈夫。结果，他们从一地到一地徘徊、流荡，没有安息。

　　找着我们丈夫的地方，是在我们的家，就是在召会里。在召会里，基督是丈夫。仅仅得着丈夫并不够，我们还必须得着家。…我们若得着基督，享受基督，并经历基督，却没有得着召会，就仍是无家可归。所以，我们不仅必须强调基督作我们的丈夫，也必须强调召会作我们的家。基督作我们的丈夫，召会作我们的家，合起来乃是一个完整的单位，使我们得着正确、充分的安息。

　　拿俄米清楚知道，路得需要嫁给波阿斯。…如此，就需要拿俄米作中间人，来推动路得和波阿斯结婚。…今天我的负担和拿俄米一样。我在为你们寻找安息之所；而你们得着安息唯一的路，乃是接受基督作你们的丈夫。因此，我在这里作中间人，推动你们嫁给基督。…你不仅需要在祂的田间拾取麦穗—你需要以祂为你的丈夫。所以，我的负担是要推动我们众人嫁给基督。我在推动大家嫁给基督，使我们能建立一个家，并在这家里，就是在召会里享受祂。

　　没有什么比婚姻更亲密的了。以基督为我们的丈夫，是最亲密的事。我们若嫁给基督，以祂为我们的丈夫，我们的生活就要改变。我们会领悟，我们必须有妻子的贞洁，并且会学习如何享受基督作我们的生命，与祂在一里行事为人。这样，我们就成为得着基督并享受基督的人，爱祂，与祂一同留在家里，并在家中，就是在召会中，与祂一同生活。我们若这样作，就会真正认识在主恢复里的召会生活（路得记生命读经，二三至二五页）。

　　参读：路得记生命读经，第四篇；罗马书生命读经，第一篇；哥林多后书生命读经，第五十二至五十三篇。

　　Have you ever had a time with the Lord when you said, “Lord, You are my Husband”? Even though you are saved and you love the Lord, you will not have a home for your rest until you marry the Lord Jesus, taking Him as your Husband.

　　In this modern age there are many idols, such as entertainment, sports, and shopping, which cause Christians to be unfaithful. It seems as if they have never been married to Christ, that they have never actually taken Him as their Husband. As a consequence, they are roaming, wandering from place to place with no rest.

　　The place to find our Husband is in our home, the church. Christ is the Husband in the church. To have a husband is not sufficient. We must also have a home…. If we have Christ, enjoy Christ, and experience Christ, yet we do not have the church, we are still homeless. Therefore, we must stress not only Christ as our Husband but also the church as our home. Christ as our Husband and the church as our home are a complete unit for us to have a proper and adequate rest.

　　Naomi was clear that Ruth needed to be married to Boaz…. There was the need for Naomi, as the person in the middle, to push Ruth and Boaz to get married. My burden today is like Naomi’s. I am seeking a resting place for you, and the only way for you to have rest is to take Christ as your Husband. Thus, I am here as a person in the middle to push you to marry Christ….You need to do more than to glean in His field—you need to take Him as your Husband. My burden, therefore, is to push all of us to marry Christ. I am pushing us to marry Christ so that we can build up a home and enjoy Him in this home, which is the church.

　　Nothing is more intimate than marriage. Taking Christ as our Husband is a most intimate matter. If we marry Christ, taking Him as our Husband, our life will be changed. We will realize that we must have a wife’s fidelity, and we will learn how to enjoy Christ as our life, walking and behaving in oneness with Him. Then we will become those who gain Christ and enjoy Christ, loving Him, staying at home with Him, and living with Him at home, in the church. If we do this, we will truly know the church life in the Lord’s recovery. (Life-study of Ruth, pp. 18-19)

　　Further Reading: Life-study of Ruth, msg. 4; Life-study of Romans, msg. 1; Life-study of 2 Corinthians, msgs. 52-53