13我们的钱财、儿女、职业、学位,都不是我们的分。唯有神是我们的分。……我们可能有我们想要达到的目标,说我们必须讲实际;但事实上,我们是把这些目标看作我们的分。这就是为什么多年以来,神来把我们天然的生命一层一层地“剥掉”。我在神逐渐的“剥除”之下几乎七十年了。我今天很快乐,因为我天然的生命大部分已经被剥掉了。神用万有来“剥掉”我们天然的生命。神甚至用召会生活中所有的弟兄和姊妹来完成这个剥除。……有一天会来到,那时我们会有大而严重的剥除。然后我们就要被破碎(李文集一九九一至一九九二年第二册,六五○、六五六至六五七页)。
13Our money, our children, our job, and our degree are not our portion. Only God is our portion…We may have our own goals that we desire to reach, saying that we need to be practical. But actually, these goals are our portion. This is why God comes to “peel off” our natural life layer by layer throughout the years. I have been under God’s gradual “peeling” for almost seventy years. I am happy today because much of my natural life has been peeled off. God uses all things to “peel off” our natural life. God even uses all the brothers and sisters in the church life to accomplish this peeling… The day will come when we will have a great and serious peeling off. Then we will be broken. (CWWL, 1991-1992, vol. 2, “The Christian Life,” pp. 486, 490-491)