11林后五章七节说,我们信徒行事为人,不是凭着眼见,不是凭着外表,乃是凭着信心。你眼所见的给你带来许多东西,但信却除掉一切。你凭眼见,可以看见一切物质的东西。当信进来时,这一切物质的东西就都消失。…有些年轻人可能有负担要全时间事奉主,但他们不知道如何得着供给。你如果这么想,就是凭眼见而行,而不是凭信而行。多年来我一直是凭信而行,但结果一切都为我效力。我蒙主拯救,脱离日本军队的手,否则他们会杀害我。主也拯救我,使我不至死于肺病。这是凭信而行。世人没有神,他们只有看得见的东西。但因为我们有神,所以我们不是凭任何所见的而行,乃是凭看不见的神而行。至终,我们所需要的一切都会到我们这里来。这信一直把我们联于神(李文集一九九四至一九九七年第一册,三六五、三六九页)。
11Second Corinthians 5:7 says that we believers do not walk by sight, by appearance, but by faith. Sight brings you a lot of things, but faith annuls all things. When sight is here, you see all the material things. When faith comes in, all these physical things disappear. Some of the young people may be burdened to serve the Lord full time, but they may wonder how they can be supported. If you think in this way, you are walking by sight, not by faith. Throughout the years I have walked by faith, but eventually all things came to me. I was saved by the Lord from the Japanese army’s hand. Otherwise, they would have killed me. The Lord also saved me from death due to tuberculosis of the lungs. This is to walk by faith. The worldly people do not have God. They have only the things they can see. But because we have God, we do not walk by anything we see. We walk by our unseen God. Eventually, all the things we need come to us. This faith links us all the time to God. (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 1, “Crystallization-study of the Epistle to the Romans,” pp. 297, 300)