11见于创世记二章的生命,乃是涌流的生命,变化的生命,和建造的生命。这生命在我们里面涌流,变化我们,至终将我们建造成基督的新妇。这新妇,就是新耶路撒冷,要完成神定旨的两方面。首先,新耶路撒冷有神完全的形像,作神完全的彰显(启二一11,参四3)。其次,这新耶路撒冷制伏仇敌,征服地,并对全宇宙施行神的权柄,尤其是对爬物(二二5,二一15,参二一8,二十10、14~15)。……因此,神的定旨借着新耶路撒冷得以完全完成,这就是生命终极完成的结果、结局。我们信徒所需要的是生命,这生命一点不差就是三一神自己,父在子里,子又成为那灵。愿我们都被带进对这涌流、变化和建造之生命的享受和经历中,预备好作把基督带回来的新妇(李常受文集一九六九年第二册,五三三页)。 11The life seen in Genesis 2 is the flowing life, the transforming life, and the building life. This life flows within us, transforms us, and eventually builds us up as the bride of Christ. This bride, the New Jerusalem, will fulfill the two aspects of the purpose of God. First, the New Jerusalem will be the full expression of God in God’s full image (Rev. 21:11; cf. 4:3). Second, this New Jerusalem will subdue the enemy, conquer the earth, and exercise God’s authority over the entire universe, especially over the creeping things (22:5; 21:15; cf. v. 8; 20:10, 14-15)…Thus, God’s purpose is fully fulfilled by the New Jerusalem, which is the result, the issue, the ultimate consummation of life. What we believers need is life, and this life is nothing less than the Triune God Himself, the Father in the Son and the Son as the Spirit. May we all be brought into the enjoyment and experience of this flowing, transforming, and building life to be prepared as the bride that will bring Christ back. (CWWL, 1969, vol. 2, “The Crucial Revelation of Life in the Scriptures,” p. 402)