罗八17~18　　…只要我们与祂一同受苦，好叫我们也与祂一同得荣耀。因为我算定今时的苦楚，不配与将来要显于我们的荣耀相比。

　　多三5　　祂便救了我们，并不是本于我们所成就的义行，乃是照着祂的怜悯，借着重生的洗涤，和圣灵的更新。

　　我们或许是在召会里蒙主保守的好圣徒，但我们有否得着神圣元素的更新？我们身上是否有一些更新在发生，还是日日、年年维持原样？我们若受了许多苦，而仍旧维持原样，那是可悲的。神为要完成祂在我们里面并在我们身上更新的工作，就成为在我们里面的生命与性情。除此之外，神也是主宰万有的主，管治全宇宙，为要更新我们。神使用四围的环境，好将祂的生命与性情作到我们里面。没有四围的环境，我们永远不能得更新。我们会维持原样。（李文集一九八九年第二册，四四六至四四七页。）

　　Rom. 8:17-18 …If…we suffer with Him…we may also be glorified with Him. For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the coming glory to be revealed upon us.

　　Titus 3:5 Not out of works in righteousness which we did but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Spirit.

　　We may be good saints in the church who have been kept and preserved by the Lord, but have we been renewed with the divine element? Is there some renewing going on with us, or are we remaining the same day by day and year after year? It would be tragic if we would pass through many sufferings and still remain the same. In order to consummate His renewing work in us and with us, God becomes our life and nature within. In addition to this, God as the sovereign Lord controls the entire universe in order to renew us. God uses the environment in order to work His life and nature into us. Without the environment, we could never be renewed. We would remain the same. (CWWL, 1989, vol. 2, “Being Renewed DAY by Day,” p. 358)

　　神乃是要更新我们。…我们可能是最对的人，却是最老旧的人。我们的习惯也许很强，我们的所是也很强。但神的意思不只是管教或改正我们，乃是用外在的环境难为我们、提醒我们、唤醒我们，使我们领悟我们虽有神作我们的性情，我们却不照祂的性情活祂。我们有祂作我们的享受，但我们不以祂作我们的性情而活祂。

　　我们是否照着神的性情管教儿女？我们也许照着我们的个性、所是、与习惯管教他们。所以神用环境把我们摆进“监牢”里。借此祂提醒我们要祷告，而我们祷告最终的结果不仅是我们被改正了，我们也得更新了。…我们先前是借着自己、凭着自己、并在自己里面管教儿女。…现今我们有神在我们对儿女的管教里，我们的管教成了人而神的管教。虽然是作父亲的在管教，但因为他的管教充满了神，所以是神的管教，有神在其中。神用那叫我们受苦的外在环境更新我们。

　　我们是因着神加到我们里面，因着有更多神的元素加到我们里面而更新。…真实的基督徒生活乃是在早晨、在晚上，天天都有神加到我们里面。…今天的难处是人所作的一切事都没有神。神所关心的，乃是祂所拣选的人，借着让祂天天加到他们里面，而学习与祂合作。神为着新陈代谢地变化我们，就将祂自己天天加到我们里面。…这新的元素是神自己，旧的元素是我们。

　　我们的神每天都在等待机会，要将祂自己加到我们众人里面。我们若给祂机会，并向祂敞开，祂就要将祂自己当作新的元素加到我们里面，不只改正我们，更顶替我们，更新我们。…有时候神可能允许召会经过“风暴”。神许可这“风暴”发生，因为神要我们得更新。我们若在“风暴”中受了苦，却还保持原样，没有更新，这是可悲的事。我盼望我们思考这事。我们必须祷告：“主啊，我不要保持原样。我不要今年跟去年一样。我要日日得更新。”神的心意是要我们日日得更新。为要得更新，我们需要神每日新鲜地加增到我们里面。我们每日需要接触神，将自己向祂敞开，让祂进到我们里面，逐日新鲜地加增到我们里面。（李文集一九八九年第二册，四四七至四五○页。）

　　参读：神圣启示的中心路线，第十一、二十三至二十四篇。

　　God desires to renew us….We may be the most right persons and still be the most old persons. We may be strong in our habit and strong in what we are. God’s intention is not merely to chastise or correct us but to use the outward environment to trouble us, to remind us, and to wake us up to realize that we have God as our nature, yet we do not live Him according to His nature. We possess Him for our enjoyment, but we do not live Him as our nature.

　　Do we discipline our children according to God’s nature? We may discipline them according to our disposition, our being, and our habit. God, therefore, uses the environment to put us into “prison.” Then we are reminded to pray, and the eventual outcome of our prayer is not merely that we get corrected but that we get renewed…. Formerly, we disciplined our children with ourselves, by ourselves, and in ourselves….Now God is in our disciplining of our children, and our disciplining them becomes a human-divine disciplining. The father is doing the disciplining, yet his disciplining is the divine disciplining because it is full of God. God is in it. God uses the outward environment in which we suffer to renew us.

　　We are renewed by the addition of God into our being, by having more of the divine element added into our being…. The real Christian life is to have God added into us morning and evening and day by day. The problem today is that people do everything without God. What God cares for is that His chosen ones would learn to cooperate with Him by allowing Him to be added into them day by day. God is daily being added to us for the purpose of metabolically transforming us….This new element is God Himself, and the old element is us.

　　Our God is daily waiting for a chance to add Himself into all of us. If we would give Him the opportunity and the opening, He will add Himself into our being as the new element, not merely to correct us but to replace us, to renew us. Sometimes God may allow the church to pass through a “storm.” God may allow this “storm” to occur because He wants us to be renewed. The tragic thing is that while we are suffering in the “storm,” we would remain the same with no renewing. I hope that we will consider this matter. We have to pray, “Lord, I don’t want to remain the same. I do not want to remain the same this year as I was last year. I want to be renewed day by day.” God’s intention is for us to be renewed day by day. In order to be renewed, we need the new addition of God into us daily. Daily we need to contact God, open ourselves up to Him, and let Him come into us to be a new addition into us day by day. (CWWL, 1989, vol. 2, “Being Renewed DAY by Day,” pp. 358-361)

　　Further Reading: CWWL, 1991-1992, vol. 1, “The Central Line of the Divine Revelation,” chs. 11, 23-24