17……祝福必须成为恩典。在旧约里,神赐给祂子民许多东西当作祝福,但那些东西仅仅是外面的祝福。在基督来临之前,这些祝福都没有作到神子民里面。基督来不仅为我们死在十字架上,更在死后成了赐生命的灵进到我们里面。所以在新约里有“在基督里”和“基督在你们里面”的辞。现今祂在我们里面,我们也在祂里面。神在基督里所赐给我们的,已经作到我们里面,成为恩典,就是我们的享受。现今我们不仅在祂的祝福之下,我们更在祂的恩典里面,祂的恩典也在我们里面。……新约从未说,“愿祝福与你们同在”,却一再说,“愿恩典与你们同在。”(创世记生命读经,一〇〇一至一〇〇四页)
17The blessing must become the grace. In the Old Testament, God gave many things to His people as blessings, but all those things were merely outward blessings. Before Christ came, none of those blessings had been wrought into God’s people. Christ came not only to die on the cross for us but, after His death, to become the life-giving Spirit to enter into our being. Thus, in the New Testament, we have the terms in Christ and Christ in you. Now He is in us, and we are in Him. Whatever God gives us in Christ has been wrought into our being and has become grace, our enjoyment. Now we are not merely under His blessing; we are in His grace, and His grace is in us…The New Testament never says, “Blessing be with you.” Rather, it says repeatedly, “Grace be with you.” (Life-study of Genesis, pp. 824-826)