伯四二5~6 我〔约伯〕从前风闻有你，现在亲眼看见你。因此我厌恶自己，在尘土和炉灰中懊悔。

　　约伯是在一个范围里，建立一个错误的东西。他在建立自己的完全、正直和纯全。他认为自己是完全正确的，他以自己所建立的为傲，他也信靠这个，并引以为荣。

　　神在祂永远的经纶里，没有意思要建立这些东西；反之，神认为这些事全数是拦阻，所以要把这些从我们身上剥夺……。当一切都被剥夺之后，你就看见神，祂就吸引你接受祂。于是你就有神的性情、生命、元素、素质，甚至祂的所是。这使你里面有新陈代谢的变化，把你从你现在为人的形状，变化成为另一种形状，就是神圣的形状。因着这变化的结果，你就会返照神，就是彰显祂并将祂分赐给别人。

　　这就是神在约伯身上的目的，也是今天祂在我们身上的目的。现在你和神可能在两个不同的范围里，因此，神要把你从现在的范围迁移到祂的范围里，叫你不只与祂成为一，更成为祂的一部分（约伯记生命读经，一九三至一九四页）。

　　Job 42:5-6 I had heard of You by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye has seen You; therefore I abhor myself, and I repent in dust and ashes.

　　Job was in the realm of building up something that was wrong. He was building up himself in his perfection, uprightness, and integrity. He thought that he was absolutely right. He was proud of what he had built up, and he trusted in that and glorified himself in that.

　　God in His eternal economy has no desire to build up these things. Rather, He considers all these things as frustrations and intends to strip them away from us…When everything is stripped away, then you will see God, and He will attract you to receive Him. Then you will have God’s nature, life, element, essence, and even His being. This will cause a metabolic change within you to transform you from the present form of your human being to another form, the form of the divine being. As a result of this transformation, you will be a person reflecting God, that is, expressing Him and dispensing Him to others.

　　This was God’s intention with Job, and this is His intention with us today. Now you and God may be in two different realms. But God wants to transfer you from your present realm into His realm, not only to make you one with Him but even to make you a part of Him. (Life-study of Job, pp. 156-157)

　　假设有人尝试和约伯谈论这些事，约伯可能会说，“你在说什么？我从我的先祖那里学到许多关于神的事，我也留意我所学习的。你却说我是在错误的范围里，还说神要在我里面建立出于祂自己的东西。你对我说到成为肉体、重生、变化，但这些是什么意思，我一无所知。”约伯没有接受这样启示的性能；在他的属灵辞典里没有这些辞。

　　在原则上，今天许多基督徒的光景也是如此。神圣的启示已经赐下、写下并解开了。然而许多信徒却不领悟神的经纶，或照着神的经纶而有的神圣分赐。他们可能认为，作基督徒就是相信神的儿子耶稣基督是我们的救主，为我们的罪流了宝血，借着祂的死拯救我们；相信圣灵现今与我们同在，帮助我们有良好的行事为人，帮助我们行善，使神得荣耀；并且相信我们死后会上天堂。那些对基督徒的生活持守这种观念的人，很可能没有看见，作基督徒也包括圣别、变化、模成、神圣经纶的神圣分赐，以及新耶路撒冷作为经过过程、终极完成之三一神的扩大。

　　我们都需要领悟，今天有两个不同的范围—旧造的范围和新造的范围。旧造的范围是天然事物的范围，新造的范围是神圣事物的范围。我们都生在旧造里，生在天然的领域里，但神要我们成为神圣的。为这缘故，我们需要一个大的迁移—从亚当迁到基督里。这迁移的头一面是重生。我们需要重生，然后需要更新。我们得更新时，我们这人的某些部分就被“剥皮”，由新的元素所顶替；这元素会使我们变化，至终模成神长子基督的形像（罗八29）。

　　我们也需要学习如何与别人谈到新造里的属灵事物。……假定你和一位信徒谈到变化成为神的长子基督的形像；那位信徒可能会说，“我听过神的独生子，却没有听过神的长子。神的长子是谁？”我担心你们可能无法说明这事（约伯记生命读经，一九四至一九五页）。

　　参读：约伯记生命读经，第三十一篇。

　　Suppose someone had tried to talk to Job about all these things. If someone had done this, Job might have said, “What are you talking about? I have learned a lot about God from my forefathers, and I have been paying attention to what I have learned. Yet you say that I am in the wrong realm and that God intends to build up something of Himself in me. You speak to me about incarnation, regeneration, and transformation, but I do not know what any of these things mean.” Job simply did not have the capacity to receive such a revelation. He did not have these terms in his spiritual dictionary.

　　In principle, the situation is the same with many Christians today. The divine revelation has been given, it has been written, and it has been interpreted. Nevertheless, many believers have no understanding of the economy of God or of the divine dispensing according to the divine economy. They may think that being a Christian is simply a matter of believing that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is our Savior, who shed His blood for our sins and who has saved us through His death; that the Holy Spirit is now with us to help us to behave ourselves well and to do good that God may be glorified; and that we will go to heaven when we die. Those who hold this concept of the Christian life may not realize that being a Christian also involves sanctification, transformation, conformation, the divine dispensing of the divine economy, and the New Jerusalem as the enlargement of the processed and consummated Triune God.

　　We all need to realize that today there are two different realms—the realm of the old creation and the realm of the new creation. The realm of the old creation is the realm of natural things, and the realm of the new creation is the realm of divine things. We were born into the old creation, into the natural sphere, yet God wants us to be divine. For this, we need a great transfer: We need to be transferred out of Adam into Christ. The first aspect of this transfer is regeneration. We need to be regenerated, and then we need to be renewed. As we are renewed, certain parts of our being will be “peeled off” and replaced by a new element that will cause us to be transformed and eventually conformed to the image of Christ, who is the firstborn Son of God (Rom. 8:29).

　　We also need to learn how to talk to others about the spiritual things in the new creation…Suppose that you speak to a believer about being transformed into the image of Christ as the firstborn Son of God. That believer might say, “I have heard about the only begotten Son of God but not about the firstborn Son. Who is the firstborn Son of God?” I am concerned that you may not be able to explain this. (Life-study of Job, pp. 157-158)

　　Further Reading: Life-study of Job, msg. 31