西一10　 行事为人配得过主，以致凡事蒙祂喜悦，在一切善工上结果子，借着认识神而长大。

　　约二一15 ……耶稣对西门彼得说，约翰的儿子西门，你爱我比这些更深么？彼得对祂说，主啊，是的，你知道我爱你。耶稣对他说，你喂养我的小羊。

　　行事为人配得过主乃是“凡事蒙祂喜悦”〔西一10〕。就是在各方面蒙主喜悦。父神喜悦子（太三17，十七5）。保罗在加拉太一章十五至十六节说，神乐意将祂的儿子基督启示在他里面。没有一件事比我们活基督更蒙父神喜悦。离了基督，没有一件事可以使父喜悦。……我们真正喜乐的时候，乃是我们活基督的时候。我们若在天然里谦卑、温柔，我们就不会喜乐。但我们若以基督作生命和人位，并活出基督，我们就是世上最喜乐的人。……最喜乐的事莫过于活基督、享受基督并经历基督。

　　我们行事为人若配得过主，就必在一切善工上结果子。……在〔歌罗西一章十节〕这里结果子是指在各方面活基督、长基督、彰显基督并繁殖基督。这是基督徒一切善工的真正素质。这就是保罗心目中的善工（歌罗西书生命读经，二六页）。

　　Col. 1:10 To walk worthily of the Lord to please Him in all things, bearing fruit in every good work and growing by the full knowledge of God.

　　John 21:15 …Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon, son of John, do you love Me more than these? He said to Him, Yes, Lord, You know that I love You. He said to him, Feed My lambs.

　　A walk worthy of the Lord is to please Him in all things [Col. 1:10]; it is pleasing to the Lord in all ways. God the Father is pleased with the Son (Matt. 3:17; 17:5). In Galatians 1:15 and 16 Paul says that it pleased God to reveal Christ, the Son, in him. Nothing is more pleasing to God the Father than for us to live Christ. Apart from Christ, nothing can please the Father. The only time we are fully happy is when we are living Christ. If we are humble or kind in a natural way, we are not happy. But if we take Christ as our life and our person and live Him out, we will be the happiest people on earth…The most pleasant thing is to live Christ, to enjoy Christ, and to experience Christ.

　　If we walk worthily of the Lord, we will bear fruit in every good work… Bearing fruit [in Colossians 1:10] refers to living Christ, growing Christ, expressing Christ, and producing Christ in every respect. This is the good work Paul had in mind. (Life-study of Colossians, p. 21)

　　在约翰二十一章，主问彼得是否爱祂，彼得告诉主说，“你知道我爱你。”然后主回答说，“你喂养我的小羊。”“你喂养我的羊。”（15、17）说话不仅是造就或教导，也是喂养小羊和喂养羊。我们若要喂养主的羊，就必须说话。……我们要喂养主的羊，就必须爱主。……我们越爱祂，我们就越有资格，越受装备，甚至越受成全而说话。有一天，一位年轻的女子来到我的家乡。当时我十九岁，她二十五岁。那是六十多年前，在保守的中国大陆。那时一位年轻的女子对一千人说话，是件非常独特、不寻常的事。虽然我常参加基督徒的聚会，但我是满了好奇地去参加这个聚会，要看这位年轻的女子说话。在我的一生中，甚至到了今天，我从未听见一个人带着那么大的权柄说话。……我听她说话时，我一切的好奇都消失了。她所说的每一句话，都抓住我，我也完全被说服了。我原是在基督教里长大的年轻人，但那一天我被主说服并得着了。会后我走回家时，我祷告将自己的一生奉献给主。

　　那位只有二十五岁的年轻女子，爱主到了极点，那是她的动机。她对主的爱，是她有能力的因素、元素和非常基本的素质。她所释放的信息源于出埃及记。她告诉听众，埃及预表世界，所有的世人都在撒但的压制之下，就如以色列人是在法老的暴政压制之下。她说，我们必须从这压制里被拯救出来，这就是我们的“出埃及”。我在她信息刚开始时听见这话，就对自己说，我再也不要在撒但的压制之下。这年轻的姊妹爱主到了极点，她就有主的权柄；她的传福音就显出冲击力。

　　我们若爱主，就必然被祂充满。凡我们里面所充满的，就会从我们身上涌流出来。外面的涌流来自里面的充满。……一九二五年那天，我将自己的一生奉献给主之后，我就爱读圣经，并且爱对人说到耶稣。因着我被主耶稣充满，我就讲说主耶稣。我们若被主耶稣充满，就必然有东西倾倒出来。……当我们爱主到极点，就必须说话；我们必须释放那在里面充满我们的一位（李文集一九八八年第一册，二四二至二四三页）。

　　参读：歌罗西书生命读经，第三篇。

　　In John 21 the Lord asked Peter if he loved Him. Peter told the Lord, “You know that I love You.” Then the Lord answered, “Feed My lambs,” and “Feed My sheep” (vv. 15, 17). To speak is not only to edify or to teach but also to feed the lambs and to feed the sheep. If we are going to feed the Lord’s sheep, we have to speak…For us to feed the Lord’s sheep, we must love Him…

　　The more that we love Him, the more we are qualified, equipped, and even perfected to speak.

　　One day a young lady came to my hometown. I was nineteen years old, and she was twenty-five. That was over sixty years ago in conservative mainland China. For a young lady to speak to a thousand people was a unique and unusual event. Although I had been to Christian meetings quite often, I went to this meeting full of curiosity to see this young lady speak. In my whole life, even up to today, I never heard a person speaking with that much authority…As I listened to her, all my curiosity was taken away. Every word that she spoke caught me, and I was fully convinced. I was a young man raised up in Christianity, but that day I was convinced and caught by the Lord. After the meeting as I was walking home, I prayed and gave my entire life to the Lord.

　　That young lady, who was only twenty-five years old, loved the Lord to the uttermost. That was her motive. Her love for the Lord was the factor, the element, and the very basic essence of her being powerful. The message she released was from the book of Exodus. She told the audience that Egypt typified the world and that all the worldly people were under the tyranny of Satan, just as the children of Israel were under the tyranny of Pharaoh. She said that we had to be delivered out of this tyranny and that this was our exodus. When I heard this near the beginning of her message, I said to myself that I would not be under Satan’s tyranny anymore. Because this young sister loved the Lord to the uttermost, she had the Lord’s authority, and the impact was in her gospel preaching.

　　If we love the Lord, we surely will be filled with Him. Whatever fills us within will come out of us. The overflow comes from the infilling…From that day in 1925 when I gave my life to the Lord, I loved to study the Bible and to talk to people about Jesus. Because I was filled with the Lord Jesus, I wanted to speak the Lord Jesus. If we are filled with the Lord Jesus, we surely will have something to pour out…When we love the Lord to the uttermost, we must speak. We must release the One who has filled us within. (CWWL, 1988, vol. 1, “Speaking Christ for the Building Up of the Body of Christ,” pp. 172-173)

　　Further Reading: Life-study of Colossians, msg. 3