12在雅各身上，主的摸是一次永远的。但在我们身上，我们也许被摸过好几次。然而，原则是一样的。我们很多人能见证，从我们爱主的第一天，特别是进入召会生活，开始在祂的恢复里跟从主，我们就发现自己在受对付的环境中。我们一直在摔跤。……有一天，主突然摸了我们一把，我们瘸了。此后，我们就不一样了。不要期望借着一摸，你的整个生活就会改变，你就会完全被变化。不，在雅各身上，那一摸发生在创世记三十二章，但成熟乃是在四十七章才完全显明。……被神摸过以后，在三十三章，表面上雅各还没有多少改变，但实际上，在生命里他有了很大的改变。……从那时起，他给人的印象大不相同。当他向以扫俯伏的时候，他还是天然的，但他的瘸腿见证主摸过他了。……以扫没有看见一个完整的雅各，只看见一个瘸腿的雅各。这里我们看见，虽然他在生活上没有改变，但在生命里发生了改变。被主摸过的，不是外面的生活；被主摸过的，乃是里面天然的力量。
12With Jacob, Jehovah’s touching was once for all. But with us, there may be several touchings. Nevertheless, the principle is the same. Many of us can testify that since the day we first loved the Lord, especially since we came into the church life and began to follow the Lord in His recovery, we found ourselves in circumstances where we were being dealt with. We were constantly wrestling…One day the Lord suddenly touched us, and we came out lame. After that, we were not the same. Do not expect that by one touch your whole living will be changed and that you will be totally transformed. No, with Jacob, the touch occurred in Genesis 32, but the maturity, the ripening, was not fully manifested until chapter 47…After being touched by God, in chapter 33, apparently, he had not changed very much, but actually, in life, he had had a great change… From then on, the impression he gave to people was quite different. When he bowed down to Esau, he was still natural, but his limp testified to Jehovah’s touching…Esau did not see a whole Jacob but a crippled one. Here we see that while there was no change in his living, a change had occurred in his life. It was not the outward living that was touched by Jehovah; it was the inward, natural strength that was touched by Him.