生命的的事奉(六): 信靠耶和华那人便有福

耶利米书十七7~8 信靠耶和华，以耶和华为可信靠的，那人有福了。他必像树栽於水旁，
沿河边扎根，炎热来到并不惧怕，叶子仍必青翠，在干旱之年毫无挂虑，而且结果
不止。

神就是要将他自己作活水赐给信徒，以产生他的扩增繁茂，好作他的彰显；这思想
在约翰的著作中得著发展。在约翰一章一节、十四节，我们看见那是神的话成了肉
体，丰丰满满的有恩典，有实际。十六节继续说，『从他的丰满里我们都领受了，
而且恩上加恩。』在四章，主耶稣对撒玛利亚妇人说到活水（10、14）。在七章三
十八节他说，『信入我的人，就如经上所说，从他腹中要流出活水的江河来。』启
示录二十一至二十二章有新耶路撒冷的异象，就是神扩增的一大表号，作他的彰显。
二十二章一至二节给我们看见，在新耶路撒冷里有生命河涌流，在这河中长著生命
树，作生命的供应，支援并维持全城。在约翰著作中所看见的，的确是耶利米二章
十三节所撒种子的发展。

这思想藉著保罗的著作得著加强。例如，林前十二章十三节说，『我们…都已经在
一位灵里受浸，…且都得以喝一位灵。』在那灵里受浸，乃是进入那灵，消失在他
里面；喝那灵，乃是把那灵接受进来，使我们全人被他浸透。在十章三至四节，保
罗用旧约的豫表，不仅说到喝，也说到吃。『都吃了一样的灵食，也都喝了一样的
灵水；所喝的是出於随行的灵磐石，那磐石就是基督。』灵食指吗哪（出十六14~18），
豫表基督作我们每日生命的供应；灵水指流自裂开磐石的活水（十七6），豫表那流
自钉死而复活之基督的灵，作我们包罗万有的水。我们饮於神这活水，乃是为著召
会作他的扩增；我们喝神，乃是为著产生他的扩大，他的丰满，作他的彰显。

亚当因著离弃生命树，转向另一棵树─善恶知识树，而堕落了。以色列人因著离弃
神这活水的泉源，转向神以外的源头，而堕落了。这源头由以色列为自己努力凿出
的池子所表徵。

神有负担，叫以色列喝他，好成为他的扩增，作他的丰满，使他们彰显他。以色列
应该喝神这活水的泉源，但他们反而作了两件恶事。第一件恶事是离弃神；第二件
恶事是凿出池子作另一个源头。然而，那些池子是破裂不能存水的。

这指明除了神这活水的泉源，没有甚么能解我们的乾渴，没有甚么能满足我们。除
了神自己分赐到我们里面作活水以外，没有甚么能使我们成为他的扩增，作他的彰
显。

赞成耶利米的人和反对他的人，都远离神的分赐。他们被岔离神这活水的泉源（耶
二13）。打岔是魔鬼的策略，使神的百姓不能接受神圣的分赐。…神的愿望是要作
他所拣选之人的一切，使他们凡事信靠他并依赖他。他们若这样作，就会接受神的
分赐。

接受神作活水的泉源，惟一的路就是天天饮於他。藉著喝，我们将流自神这泉源的
活水接受到我们里面（耶利米书生命读经，二一至二三、一九○至一九一、三一二
页）。参读：耶利米书生命读经，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