8在二章十五节保罗说,信徒是神的儿女。这含示重生、新生。成为神的儿女意思是我们从神而生,也就是神孕育在我们里面。当我们在灵里从神而生时,我们就与祂调和为一。孕育总是在出生之前。当我们成为神的儿女时,神就孕育在我们全人里面。这比调和更深。然而,我们的话语不足以表达我们和神之间深切的关系;这关系是因著神孕育在我们里面而产生的。祂已经孕育在我们里面,而我们也已经从祂而生,成为祂的儿女。我们既已从神而生,就需要吃喝祂。凡我们所吃、所消化的东西,当然都被我们吸收,并与我们调和。主耶稣说,祂是从天上降下来的粮;又说,吃祂的人,都要因祂活著。(约六50,。)主清楚的将自己比作食物,给我们吃、消化并吸收。那些反对信徒与神调和之教训的人,缺乏正确的认识。他们不明白,我们信主的时候,神就孕育在我们里面,我们也从祂而生。那时候,我们与神,人性和神性,就奇妙的联结在一起。我们得著属灵的出生以后,必须天天吃喝神。三一神乃是我们的食物和饮料。我们真能说,我们所吃的食物,我们所喝的水,不仅与我们联结,更与我们调和。我们无法否认这事实,就是我们所接受并消化的食物和饮料,与我们调和,至终藉著新陈代谢的作用,浸透我们。同样的原则,当我们接受三一神作我们的食物和饮料时,祂就与我们调和,我们也与祂调和。然而我们必须清楚,神和人这样的调和,并不会造成神性与人性的混合或混乱。一面,有真正的调和;另一面,没有混合,也没有混乱。
8In 2:15 Paul says that the believers are children of God. This implies regeneration, the new birth. To be a child of God means that we have been born of God, that God has been conceived within us. When we were born of God in our spirit, we were mingled with Him. Conception always precedes birth. When we became children of God, God was conceived in our very being. This involves even more than mingling. However, we do not have words adequate to express the deep relationship between us and God that has been produced by God’s being conceived within us. He has been conceived within us, and we have been born of Him to become His children. Now that we have been born of God, we need to eat Him and drink Him. To be sure, whatever we eat and digest is assimilated by us and mingled with us. The Lord Jesus said that He is the bread which came down from heaven and also that the ones who eat Him will live because of Him (John 6:50, 57). The Lord clearly likened Himself 57 to food for us to eat, digest, and assimilate. Those who oppose the teaching that believers are mingled with God are short of the proper knowledge. They do not realize that at the time of our conversion, God was conceived within us, and we were born of Him. At that time, we and God, humanity and divinity, were joined in a marvelous way. After our spiritual birth, we need to feed on God day by day. The Triune God is our food and drink. We can truly say that the food we eat and the water we drink are not merely united to us, but also mingled with us. We simply cannot deny the fact that the food and drink we take in and digest are mingled with us and eventually saturate us metabolically. In the same principle, when we take in the Triune God as our food and drink, He is mingled with us, and we are mingled with Him. However, we must be clear that this mingling of God and man does not produce a mixture, or a confusion, of divinity and humanity. On the one hand, there is a genuine mingling; on the other hand, there is no mixture or confusion.