18我们所有在神面前隐秘的东西,不能都拿出来。……神在里面动,我们才能动。有的时候,神要你对弟兄说话,你可不要把它压住了;你如果压住了,你就违反了肢体的律。肢体有一个律就是交通;你一压住,就不能流通。我们要积极,不能消极,我们要将生命给人。但是,一天到晚想自己,一天到晚说自己的事情,这一种的多话,这一种的显露,是要叫自己受攻击的。我们盼望一面知道什么是身体,知道身体上的流通,另一面我们在主的面前,有我们隐藏的部分,就是许多经历是人所不知道的。所有的根,都是不能显露的。
18Whatever secrets we have with the Lord must be preserved …Only if He moves within us to reveal something, dare we reveal it. If He wants us to share some experience with a brother, we dare not withhold it, for that would be violating a law of the members of the Body of Christ. One law of the members of the Body of Christ is fellowship. Once we suppress this law, the flow stops. We must be positive, not negative, and minister life to others. But if we are engrossed all day with ourselves and with our own things, this talkativeness and exposure opens us to assault from the enemy. I trust we will learn what the Body of Christ is and what the flow of life among the members is; but I trust we will also learn the need for safeguarding the hidden part we have before the Lord, the experiences that are not known to others. No root should be exposed.