林前二9　　只是如经上所记：“神为爱祂的人所预备的，是眼睛未曾看见，耳朵未曾听见，人心也未曾想到的。”

　　西一18　　祂也是召会身体的头；祂是元始，是从死人中复活的首生者，使祂可以在万有中居首位。

　　我们若要领略并有分于神为我们命定并预备之深奥、隐藏的事，就不仅需要信祂，也需要爱祂。敬畏神、敬拜神、信神（就是接受神），都还不够；爱祂是不可缺的。爱神的意思，是把我们全人，灵、魂、体，连同我们的心、心思和力量，（可十二30，）都完全摆在祂身上。这就是说，我们全人都让祂占有，消失在祂里面，以致祂成了我们的一切，我们在日常生活里，实际地与祂是一。这样，我们与神就有最亲近、最密切的交通，能进入祂的心，领略祂心中一切的秘密。（诗七三25，二五14。）（圣经恢复本，林前二9注1。）

　　1 Cor. 2:9 But as it is written, “Things which eye has not seen and ear has not heard and which have not come up in man’s heart; things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”

　　Col. 1:18 And He is the Head of the Body, the church; He is the beginning, the Firstborn from the dead, that He Himself might have the first place in all things.

　　To realize and participate in the deep and hidden things God has ordained and prepared for us requires us not only to believe in Him but also to love Him. To fear God, to worship God, and to believe in God (that is, to receive God) are all inadequate; to love Him is the indispensable requirement. To love God means to set our entire being—spirit, soul, and body, with the heart, soul, mind, and strength (Mark 12:30)—absolutely on Him, that is, to let our entire being be occupied by Him and lost in Him, so that He becomes everything to us and we are one with Him practically in our daily life. In this way we have the closest and most intimate fellowship with God, and we are able to enter into His heart and apprehend all its secrets (Psa. 73:25; 25:14). (1 Cor. 2:9, footnote 3)

　　爱是由这奇妙的信所发生出来的，叫我们在那些和我们共同信入基督的人身上，活出三一神在基督里的一切丰富，使父、子、灵，三一神得着荣耀的彰显。…爱是经历、享受并活出这无限丰富的三一神。信是联于作信徒一切的三一神；爱是将这三一神供给、传输同作信徒的人，使一切的信徒在这奇妙有能的信中，用那神圣超人的爱，彼此相爱，过那在基督里的团体生活，而使基督的身体得以实现，叫那经过种种过程的三一神，在那包罗万有的基督里，借着那无限量赐生命的灵，今日在地上就得着彰显。

　　（爱与信）是这三一神在基督里所赐我们丰富的恩典，（提前一14，）不只作我们属灵生活的动力和表现，也成为遮护我们整个人要害的胸甲。（帖前五8。）整卷约翰福音所启示并供应我们的神圣生命，也就是我们凭着这样的信接受而得享的，（约三16、36，）并借着这样的爱爱主而爱属祂之人的。（约二一15~17，十三34~35。）这样的信和这样的爱是相联并行的，这爱是来自这信的，这信也是借着这爱运行工作的。（加五6。）这爱同着这信，使我们能在不朽坏之中爱我们的主，以过召会得胜的生活，（弗六23~24，）成全神在基督里对召会所有那新约的经纶。所以，我们乃是在这信里得神的喜悦，（来十一6，）也是在这爱中蒙主的祝福。（林前十六22。）“愿…（这）爱同着（这）信，从父神并主耶稣基督归与弟兄们。”（弗六23。）（圣经恢复本，多三15注1。）

　　我很宝贝我们都爱主的恢复。我们若不爱主的恢复，就不会在这里。但我们需要看见在启示录二、三章给众召会的七封书信中，主第一个要对付的，就是要恢复起初的爱。（二4。）我们爱祂吗？我们当然爱。但我们有在凡事上让祂居首位吗？让主在凡事上居首位，就是用起初的爱、上好的爱来爱祂。我们要让祂居首位，就必须乐意被调整、被破碎，成为无有，好使主能有路在我们里面、借着我们、并在我们中间，建造祂生机的身体。（李文集一九九一至一九九二年第三册，五八五至五八六页。）

　　参读：活力排，第八篇。

　　Love issues out of such a wonderful faith and enables us to live out all the riches of the Triune God in Christ with those who have believed into Christ with us, that the Triune God—the Father, the Son, and the Spirit—may have a glorious expression…. Love is for experiencing, enjoying, and living out the immeasurably rich Triune God. Faith is for the believers to be joined to the Triune God, who is everything to them; love is for the believers to minister and transmit the Triune God to their fellow believers so that, in such a wonderful and powerful faith, all the believers may love one another with divine, transcendent love and live a corporate life in Christ. In this way the Body of Christ is realized and the processed Triune God is expressed today on the earth in the all-inclusive Christ through the immeasurable life-giving Spirit.

　　[Faith and love] are the rich grace given to us in Christ by the Triune God (1 Tim. 1:14), not only to be the motivating power and expression of our spiritual life but also to become our breastplate (1 Thes. 5:8), which covers and protects the vital parts of our being. It is by such faith that we receive and enjoy the divine life that is revealed and ministered to us in the entire Gospel of John (John 3:16, 36), and it is by such love that we love the Lord and those who belong to Him (John 21:15-17; 13:34-35). Such faith and love are connected and go together: love comes from faith, and faith operates and works through love (Gal. 5:6). Love with faith enables us to love our Lord in incorruptibility so that we may have an overcoming church life (Eph. 6:23-24) for the fulfillment of God’s New Testament economy in Christ for the church. Therefore, it is in this faith that we are well pleasing to God (Heb. 11:6) and in this love that we are blessed of the Lord (1 Cor. 16:22). May this love with this faith be to the brothers from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ (Eph. 6:23). (Titus 3:15, footnote 1)

　　I appreciate that all of us love the Lord’s recovery. If we did not love the recovery, we would not be here. But we need to see that in the seven epistles to the churches in Revelation 2 and 3, the first dealing of the Lord is concerning the recovery of the first love (2:4). Do we love Him? Surely we do. But do we give Him the preeminence, the first place, in all things? To give the Lord the first place in all things is to love Him with the first love, the best love. In order to give Him the preeminence, we must be willing to be adjusted, to be broken, to be made nothing, so that the Lord can have a way in us, through us, and among us for the building up of His organic Body. (CWWL, 1991-1992, vol. 3, “Fellowship concerning the Urgent Need of the Vital Groups,” p. 462)

　　Further Reading: CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 5, “The Vital Groups,” ch. 8