8我们的确需要拼上去,不惜代价地祷告,像使徒保罗那样付代价。我们不该有一种态度,以为我们既已牺牲了前途,又不爱世界,我们在主里就稳妥了。那是不够的;你必须认识一切属灵事物的内在景象。神的心意是要使祂自己成为人,好使人得以成为神。这样,神与人就要联调为一,共同生活。至终圣城新耶路撒冷,乃是一切异象和启示的集大成,是三一神与三部分人的构成。这构成,就是新耶路撒冷,要成为永世里的配偶;这配偶既是人又是神,在神性和人性里互为居所。神的荣耀要在这人性上,彰显、表明到极致,光辉烈烈,灿烂赫赫(李常受文集一九九四至一九九七年第一册,一七一至一七三页)。
8We surely need to be desperate to pray at any cost and to pay the cost just as the apostle Paul did. We should not have the attitude that we are safe in the Lord because we have sacrificed our future and do not love the world. That is not adequate. You must know the intrinsic scene of all the spiritual things. God’s intention is to make Himself man that man may become Him. Then He and man will be united and mingled together to live a corporate life. Eventually, this holy city, Jerusalem, is the aggregate of all the visions and revelations. It is a constitution of the Triune God with the tripartite man. This constitution, the New Jerusalem, will be a pair of lovers in eternity. This pair of lovers are men and God as well. They have become a kind of mutual abode in divinity and humanity. In this humanity, the glory of God will be expressed, manifested, to the uttermost, full of brightness, full of splendor, and full of glory. (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 1, “The Practical Points concerning Blending,” pp. 138-140)