生命的的事奉(六): 信靠耶和華那人便有福

耶利米書十七7~8 信靠耶和華，以耶和華為可信靠的，那人有福了。他必像樹栽於水旁，
沿河邊紮根，炎熱來到並不懼怕，葉子仍必青翠，在乾旱之年毫無掛慮，而且結果
不止。

神就是要將他自己作活水賜給信徒，以產生他的擴增繁茂，好作他的彰顯；這思想
在約翰的著作中得著發展。在約翰一章一節、十四節，我們看見那是神的話成了肉
體，豐豐滿滿的有恩典，有實際。十六節繼續說，『從他的豐滿里我們都領受了，
而且恩上加恩。』在四章，主耶穌對撒瑪利亞婦人說到活水（10、14）。在七章三
十八節他說，『信入我的人，就如經上所說，從他腹中要流出活水的江河來。』啟
示錄二十一至二十二章有新耶路撒冷的異象，就是神擴增的一大表號，作他的彰顯。
二十二章一至二節給我們看見，在新耶路撒冷里有生命河涌流，在這河中長著生命
樹，作生命的供應，支援並維持全城。在約翰著作中所看見的，的確是耶利米二章
十三節所撒種子的發展。

這思想藉著保羅的著作得著加強。例如，林前十二章十三節說，『我們…都已經在
一位靈里受浸，…且都得以喝一位靈。』在那靈里受浸，乃是進入那靈，消失在他
裡面；喝那靈，乃是把那靈接受進來，使我們全人被他浸透。在十章三至四節，保
羅用舊約的豫表，不僅說到喝，也說到吃。『都吃了一樣的靈食，也都喝了一樣的
靈水；所喝的是出於隨行的靈磐石，那磐石就是基督。』靈食指嗎哪（出十六14~18），
豫表基督作我們每日生命的供應；靈水指流自裂開磐石的活水（十七6），豫表那流
自釘死而復活之基督的靈，作我們包羅萬有的水。我們飲於神這活水，乃是為著召
會作他的擴增；我們喝神，乃是為著產生他的擴大，他的豐滿，作他的彰顯。

亞當因著離棄生命樹，轉向另一棵樹─善惡知識樹，而墮落了。以色列人因著離棄
神這活水的泉源，轉向神以外的源頭，而墮落了。這源頭由以色列為自己努力鑿出
的池子所表徵。

神有負擔，叫以色列喝他，好成為他的擴增，作他的豐滿，使他們彰顯他。以色列
應該喝神這活水的泉源，但他們反而作了兩件惡事。第一件惡事是離棄神；第二件
惡事是鑿出池子作另一個源頭。然而，那些池子是破裂不能存水的。

這指明除了神這活水的泉源，沒有甚麼能解我們的乾渴，沒有甚麼能滿足我們。除
了神自己分賜到我們裡面作活水以外，沒有甚麼能使我們成為他的擴增，作他的彰
顯。

贊成耶利米的人和反對他的人，都遠離神的分賜。他們被岔離神這活水的泉源（耶
二13）。打岔是魔鬼的策略，使神的百姓不能接受神聖的分賜。…神的願望是要作
他所揀選之人的一切，使他們凡事信靠他並依賴他。他們若這樣作，就會接受神的
分賜。

接受神作活水的泉源，惟一的路就是天天飲於他。藉著喝，我們將流自神這泉源的
活水接受到我們裡面（耶利米書生命讀經，二一至二三、一九○至一九一、三一二
頁）。參讀：耶利米書生命讀經，第四、六、十二、二十二篇。


English Version
Jer. 17:7-8 "Blessed is the man who trusts in Jehovah and whose trust Jehovah 
is. And he will be like a tree transplanted beside water, which sends out 
its roots by a stream, and will not be afraid when heat comes; for its leaves 
remain flourishing, and it will not be anxious in the year of drought and 
will not cease to bear fruit."

    God’s economy is to dispense Himself as the living water to produce 
His increase, His enlargement, to be His expression. This thought is developed 
in the writings of John. In John 1:1 and 14 we see that the Word, which 
was God, became flesh, full of grace and reality. Verse 16 goes on to say, 
“For of His fullness we have all received, and grace upon grace.” In chapter 
4 of John the Lord Jesus spoke to the Samaritan woman concerning living 
water (vv. 10, 14). In John 7:38 He said, “He who believes into Me, as the 
Scripture said, out of his innermost being shall flow rivers of living water.
” In Revelation 21 and 22 we have a vision of the New Jerusalem, which is 
a great sign of God’s increase for His expression. Revelation 22:1 and 2 
show us that in the New Jerusalem the river of life flows and that in this 
river grows the tree of life as the life supply to support and sustain the 
entire city. What we have in the writings of John is surely the growth of 
the seed sown in Jeremiah 2:13. (Life-study of Jeremiah, p. 18)

    This thought is strengthened by Paul’s writings. For example, 1 Corinthians 
12:13 says, “In one Spirit we were all baptized into one Body...and were 
all given to drink one Spirit.” To be baptized in the Spirit is to get into 
the Spirit and to be lost in Him; to drink the Spirit is to take the Spirit 
in and to have our being saturated with Him. In 1 Corinthians 10:3 and 4 
Paul, using the Old Testament types, speaks not only of drinking but also 
of eating. “All ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual 
drink; for they drank of a spiritual rock which followed them, and the rock 
was Christ.” The spiritual food refers to manna (Exo. 16:14-18), typifying 
Christ as our daily life supply; the spiritual drink refers to the living 
water that flowed out of the cleft rock (Exo. 17:6), typifying the Spirit, 
who flowed out of the crucified and resurrected Christ as our all-inclusive 
drink. Our drinking of God as the living water is for the church as His 
increase; our drinking is for the producing of His enlargement, His fullness, 
for His expression.

    Adam fell by forsaking the tree of life and turning to another tree─
the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Israel fell by forsaking God 
as the fountain of living waters and turning to a source other than God. 
This source is signified by the cisterns, which Israel labored to hew out 
for themselves.

    God was burdened that Israel would drink Him to become His increase 
as His fullness that they might express Him. Israel should have drunk of 
God as the fountain of living waters, but instead they committed two evils. 
The first evil was to forsake God; the second evil was to hew out cisterns 
as another source. Those cisterns, however, were broken and could hold no 
water. This indicates that apart from God as the fountain of living waters, 
nothing can quench our thirst, nothing can satisfy us. Nothing apart from 
God Himself dispensed into us as living water can make us His increase for 
His expression.

    Both those who were for Jeremiah and those who were against him were 
kept away from God’s dispensing. They were distracted from Him as the fountain 
of living waters (Jer. 2:13). Distractions are the devil’s devices to keep 
God’s people from receiving the divine dispensing. God’s intention is to 
be everything to His chosen people that they may trust in Him and rely on 
Him for everything. If they do this, they will receive God’s dispensing.

    The only way to take God as the fountain of living waters is to drink 
of Him day by day. By drinking we take into us the living water that issues 
from God as the fountain. (Life-study of Jeremiah, pp. 18-19, 158, 259)

    Further Reading: Life-study of Jeremiah, msgs. 4, 6, 12, 22