第六週 • 週五
晨興餧養
耶十七7~8 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。
神的經綸是要將祂自己作活水分賜出來，以產生祂的擴增，祂的擴大，好作祂的彰顯；這思想在約翰的着作中得着發展。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，『從祂的豐滿裏我們都領受了，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）。在七章三十八節祂說，『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，作祂的彰顯。二十二章一至二節給我們看見，在新耶路撒冷裏有生命河湧流，在這河中長着生命樹，作生命的供應，支援並維持全城。在約翰着作中所看見的，的確是耶利米二章十三節所撒種子的發展（耶利米書生命讀經，二一頁）。
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這思想藉着保羅的着作得着加強。例如，林前十二章十三節說，『我們…都已經在一位靈裏受浸，…且都得以喝一位靈。』在那靈裏受浸，乃是進入那靈，消失在祂裏面；喝那靈，乃是把那靈接受進來，使我們全人被祂浸透。在十章三至四節，保羅用舊約的豫表，不僅說到喝，也說到喫。『都喫了一樣的靈食，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，乃是為着召會作祂的擴增；我們喝神，乃是為着產生祂的擴大，祂的豐滿，作祂的彰顯。
亞當因着離棄生命樹，轉向另一棵樹—善惡知識樹，而墮落了。以色列人因着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，叫以色列喝祂，好成為祂的擴增，作祂的豐滿，使他們彰顯祂。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裏面作活水以外，沒有甚麼能使我們成為祂的擴增，作祂的彰顯。
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。…神的願望是要作祂所揀選之人的一切，使他們凡事信靠祂並依賴祂。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祂。藉着喝，我們將流自神這泉源的活水接受到我們裏面（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。
WEEK 6 — DAY 5
Morning Nourishment
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)
Today's Reading
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
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