19我要请你们照着你们的经历来看主的牧养这件事。你是在灵里,还是在魂里经历主的安慰,并感觉祂的安慰?……你若说,祂的安慰是在灵里,你的回答就不是照着圣经。你进入主的恢复以前,也许不知道你有人的灵。但你进到召会生活中以后,就看见了关于人的灵的启示。但这启示现今对你也许成了一种新的传统。说基督的安慰在我们的灵里,乃是照着关于灵的新传统说话。许多时候我们说到转向灵,可能期望我们一转向灵,就会万事顺利。事实上,甚至我们转向灵以后,许多事可能也不顺利。彼得从经历知道,要说基督是我们魂的牧人。所以,彼得在二十五节没有告诉我们,基督是我们灵或我们身体的牧人;他清楚地说,基督是我们魂的牧人。
19I would ask you to consider this matter of the Lord’s shepherding according to your experience. Do you experience the Lord’s comfort and sense His comfort in your spirit or in your soul?…If you say that His comfort is in the spirit, your answer is not according to the Bible. Before you came into the Lord’s recovery, you may not have known that you had a human spirit. But since you have been in the church life, you have seen the revelation concerning the human spirit. But this revelation may have now become to you a new kind of tradition. To say that Christ’s comfort is in our spirit is to speak according to a new tradition concerning the spirit. Many times we speak of turning to the spirit, perhaps expecting that when we turn to the spirit, everything will be all right. Actually, even after we turn to the spirit, many things may not be all right. From experience Peter knew to say that Christ is the Shepherd of our souls. Therefore, Peter does not tell us in verse 25 that Christ is the Shepherd of our spirit or of our body; He clearly says that He is the Shepherd of our souls.