12日复一日,我们必须早起,花时间与主同在;这是我们的劳苦。我们必须祷告;这是我们的劳苦。我们也必须终日运用我们的灵接触主;这也是我们的劳苦。不仅如此,我们必须对付许多仇敌,包括肉体、己和环境。甚至我们的家人、朋友、亲戚、邻居、同事、同学和室友,也是我们必须对付的问题。我们也必须传扬福音,并学习帮助别人。这些都是我们该劳苦的项目。倘若我们在这一切事上劳苦,我们就会从我们的美地基督得着丰富的出产。然后,我们来到聚会中,就会双手满了基督的丰富而来。因为我们昼夜在基督身上劳苦,我们就会有丰富的出产,不但足以叫我们在基督里且凭着基督而活,也足以叫我们来敬拜神。这样,我们来到神面前,就带着基督而来(李常受文集一九六四年第四册,一○一至一○二页)。
12Day by day we must rise up early to spend some time with the Lord; this is our labor. We have to pray; this is our labor. We also have to exercise our spirit to contact the Lord throughout the whole day; this also is our labor. Moreover, we must deal with many enemies, including the flesh, the self, and the environment. Even our family, friends, relatives, neighbors, colleagues, classmates, and roommates are problems we have to deal with. We also have to preach the gospel and learn to help others. All these are items of the labor we should have. If we labor in all these ways, we will have the rich produce of Christ our good land. Then when we come to the meeting, we will come with our hands full of the riches of Christ. Because day and night we labor on Christ, we will have a rich produce that is not only good enough for us to live in Christ and by Christ but also good enough for us to come to worship God. In this way, when we come to God, we come with Christ. (CWWL, 1964, vol. 4, “Serving in the Meetings and in the Gospel,” pp. 77-78)