罗十二2　　不要模仿这世代，反要借着心思的更新而变化，叫你们验证何为神那美好、可喜悦、并纯全的旨意。

　　启二一5　　坐宝座的说，看哪，我将一切都更新了。又说，你要写上，因这些话是可信的，是真实的。

　　神圣的元素是非常活动的，是加力的，是作工的，是生机的。…我们现今所享受神的生命具有更新的性能。…我用“性能”（capacity）这辞，意思是说神圣生命在其性质上的功能。在神神圣的性质里，有终日加力的功能。神圣生命及其性质一进到我们里面，就在我们里面加力。我们众人都有神圣的元素在里面加力。在这神圣的元素里有更新的性能。

　　我们可以用肥皂来作说明，因为肥皂有洗去污秽的性能。肥皂的性质里有洗去污秽的功能。照样，在我们所领受并享受的神圣生命里，也有按着神圣生命性质的更新性能。…我们需要天天享受在复活里神圣生命更新的性能。（李文集一九八九年第二册，四五一页。）

　　Rom. 12:2 And do not be fashioned according to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of the mind that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and well pleasing and perfect.

　　Rev. 21:5 And He who sits on the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And He said, Write, for these words are faithful and true.

　　The divine element is very active. It is energizing, it works, and it is organic….Within the divine life that we are enjoying today, there is a renewing capacity….When I use the word capacity, I mean the ability of the divine life in its nature. In God’s divine nature there is the ability that is energizing all day. Once the divine life with the divine nature gets into us, it energizes within us. We all have the divine element energizing in us, and in this divine element there is the renewing capacity.

　　We may use soap as an illustration because it has the capacity to wash away dirt. There is the ability to wash away dirt in the nature of the soap. Likewise, in the divine life that we have received and that we are enjoying, there is a renewing capacity according to its nature….We need to enjoy the renewing capacity of the divine life in resurrection day by day. (CWWL, 1989, vol. 2, “Being Renewed DAY by Day,” p. 361)

　　每早晨我们必须接触主。首先，我们必须认罪。其次，我们必须拒绝己。我们拒绝己的时候，就经过基督的死，基督的死也杀死我们。在林后四章，保罗说到“耶稣的治死”。（10。）这是指耶稣（就积极的意义说）一直在杀死我们。今天许多药物里面，有医治的元素，也有杀死的元素，能杀灭我们里面有害的细菌。在耶稣里面有杀死的元素。…在这药剂里，有杀死的能力。每早晨我们都需要到主这里来，取用祂作我们…每日的抗生素。当我们取用祂作药剂，我们就享受耶稣的杀死，耶稣的治死。这杀死就是更新的过程。不仅如此，这杀死带来复活。…在基督的复活里，这神圣的生命有更新的性能。我们早晨拒绝己并接受神到我们里面的时候，就在一天当中感觉到，有一个杀死的过程在我们里面进行着。并且在神圣的生命里有更新的性能，在我们一切的行动上更新我们。

　　神的心意完全是要使我们成为新的。这不是一夜之间的事，…需要我们接触神、接受神，使神整天加增到我们里面；更需要我们祷告、认罪、并拒绝己，好取用基督的十字架。取用基督的十字架乃是杀死，这杀死就是死。这死带进复活；在这复活里，我们里面神的生命就会发挥更新的性能。我们就会新陈代谢地改变。

　　每时每刻我们都需要接受神，使祂能加到我们里面；我们也必须拒绝己，好接受基督的死，使我们能与我们里面的主合作。这样，我们就会享受更新的性能，也会享受更新的结果，就是我们在行为、性格、个性、甚至习惯上，新陈代谢的改变。最难更新的是我们的习惯。当我们天天在基督里经历神，我们就会看见神的心意是要一点一点地更新我们，特别是更新我们的习惯。

　　神要我们成为新造。当主所有的儿女都经过更新的过程，成为新耶路撒冷的时候，他们就会在完全更新的情形里。圣城叫作新耶路撒冷，因为那里没有神旧造的旧元素。我们经过患难的时候，在我们里面需要日日不断的有更新，使神能完成祂的心意。（李文集一九八九年第二册，四五一至四五四页。）

　　参读：书信中神的灵同人的灵，第三章；书信中的灵，第一部分第二篇。

　　Every morning we should contact the Lord. First, we have to confess our sins. Second, we have to reject ourselves. In rejecting ourselves, we pass through the death of Christ, and the death of Christ kills us. In 2 Corinthians 4 Paul talks about “the putting to death of Jesus” (v. 10). This means that Jesus, in a positive sense, is always killing us. In many medicines today there is a healing element and a killing element that kills the bad germs and bacteria within us. In Jesus there is the killing element…. In this dose there is the killing power. Morning after morning we need to come to the Lord and take Him as our… daily antibiotic. When we take Him as our medication, we enjoy the killing of Jesus, or the putting to death of Jesus. This killing is the process of renewing. Furthermore, this killing brings in resurrection…. In the resurrection of Christ the divine life has the renewing capacity. When we reject ourselves in the morning to receive God into us, we have the sense during the day that a killing process is going on within us. Also, there is a capacity in the divine life that is renewing us in all our actions.

　　God’s intention is altogether to make us new. This is not an overnight matter…. It requires us to contact God, to receive God, and to get God added into us all the day. It requires us to pray, confessing our sins and rejecting ourselves to take the cross of Christ. To take the cross of Christ is a killing, and this killing is death. This death brings in resurrection, and in this resurrection the divine life in us will carry out its renewing capacity. Then we will be changed metabolically.

　　Moment by moment we have to receive God so that He can be added into us, and we have to reject ourselves to receive the death of Christ so that we can cooperate with the Lord within us. Then we will enjoy not only the renewing capacity but also the renewing result, which is a metabolic change in our behavior, in our character, in our disposition, and even in our habit. The most difficult thing to renew is our habit. When we experience God in Christ daily, we will see that God’s intention is to renew us bit by bit, especially to renew our habit.

　　God desires us to be the new creation. When all of the Lord’s children pass through the process of renewing to become the New Jerusalem, they will be in a state of being fully renewed. The holy city is called the New Jerusalem because it has no old element of God’s old creation. As we pass through afflictions, there needs to be a continual renewing taking place in us day by day so that God can accomplish His heart’s desire. (CWWL, 1989, vol. 2, “Being Renewed DAY by Day,” pp. 361-363)

　　Further Reading: CWWL, 1966, vol. 2, “The Divine Spirit with the Human Spirit in the Epistles,” ch. 3; CWWL, 1965, vol. 3, “The Spirit in the Epistles,” ch. 2