11按照以弗所一章,我们需要经历神在基督身上所运行的能力;按照三章,我们需要以基督作我们的人位。后者启示于十七节,那里说,“使基督……安家在你们心里。”正如一个人渴望有一个家,基督也渴望安家在我们心里。渴望安家在我们心里的基督,乃是一个人位。让基督安家在我们心里,就是让祂在我们里面定居。譬如,你可能被邀请到一位弟兄家里,但是你不能安家在那里,因为你在那里是作客。……你……没有自由或权利完全定居在那里。同样的原则,基督是在我们里面,但祂也许不能安家在我们里面,因为祂在我们心里仅仅是客人,而不是主人;我们的心是我们的家,却不是祂的家(李常受文集一九七一年第一册,三八四页)。
11According to Ephesians 1, we need to experience the power that God caused to operate in Christ, and according to Ephesians 3, we need to take Christ as our person. The latter is revealed in verse 17, which says, “That Christ may make His home in your hearts.” Just as a person desires a home, Christ desires to make His home in our hearts. The Christ who desires to make His home in our hearts is a person. For Christ to make His home in our hearts is for Him to settle down in us. For example, you may be invited to a brother’s house, but you are unable to make your home there, because you are there as a guest…You do not have the liberty or the right to fully settle down there. In the same principle, Christ is in us, but He may not be able to make His home in us because He is merely a guest in our heart, not the host; our heart may be our home, not His home. (CWWL, 1971, vol. 1, pp. 276-277)