14王上七章十七节说，“柱子上端的柱顶有装修的格子网和拧成的链索形成的花圈，一个柱顶有七个，另一个柱顶也有七个。”……召会的肢体所面对的每一种情况都是格子网，就是围着荆棘冠冕的格子架。……在这种情况里是我们的定命。我们不仅必须在这种错综复杂的情况里承担责任，并且必须活在其中。……要在这种复杂的情况里承担责任，我们必须在神里面凭信而活。十九节说，“廊子里柱子上端的柱顶……刻着百合花。”百合花表征在神里面的信心生活。首先，我们必须定罪自己，认识我们是堕落、无能、不够格，并且一无所有；然后我们必须在神里面凭信活着，不凭我们的所是或我们所能作的活着。我们必须是百合花，凭着神对我们的所是，不凭着我们的所是存活（太六28、30）。我们今天活在地上是在于祂。我们在错综复杂的召会生活中怎能承担责任？在我们自己里面，我们不能作这事；但我们若是在神里面凭信而活就能这样作。不再是我，乃是基督在我里面活着—这就是百合花。不是我承担责任—乃是祂承担责任。我活不是凭自己，乃是凭祂。我尽职事，也不是凭自己，乃是凭祂。你们姊妹们若是召会生活中的母亲，你们必须说，“我在召会中不是凭自己作母亲，乃是凭祂。” 14First Kings 7:17 speaks of “nets of checker work with wreaths of chain work for the capitals that were at the top of the pillars, seven for the one capital, and seven for the second capital.” Every situation faced by the church members is a checker work, a trellis encircled by a crown of pins and thorns... It is our destiny to be in this situation. We must not only bear the responsibility in this intermixed and complicated situation, but also live in the midst of it. In order to bear the responsibility in this complicated situation, we must live by faith in God. First Kings 7:19 says, “And the capitals that were at the top of the pillars in the portico were of lily work.” The lily signifies a life of faith in God. First, we must condemn ourselves, realizing that we are fallen, incapable, unqualified, and that we are nothing. Then we must live by faith in God, not by what we are or by what we can do. We must be a lily existing by what God is to us, not by what we are (Matt. 6:28, 30). Our living on earth today depends upon Him. How can we possibly bear the responsibility in the intermixed and complicated church life? In ourselves, we are incapable of doing this, but we can do so if we live by faith in God. It is not I, but Christ who lives in me—this is the lily. It is not I who bear the responsibility—it is He who bears it. I live, not by myself, but by Him, and I minister, not by myself, but by Him. If you sisters are mothers in the church life, you must say, “I am not a mother in the church by myself, but by Him.”