【读圣经学英语】那吃我的人，也要因我活着

约翰福音-John 6 章 57~62节

6:57	活的父怎样差我来，我又因父活着，照样，那吃我的人，也要因我活着。 As the living Father has sent Me and I live because of the Father, so he who eats Me, he also shall live because of Me.
6:58	这就是从天上降下来的粮，吃这粮的人，就永远活着，不像你们的祖宗吃过吗哪，还是死了。 This is the bread which came down out of heaven, not as the fathers ate and died; he who eats this bread shall live forever.
6:59	这些话是耶稣在迦百农施教的时候，在会堂里说的。 He said these things in a synagogue as He taught in Capernaum.
6:60	祂的门徒中有好些人听见了，就说，这话甚难，谁能听呢？ Many therefore of His disciples, when they heard this, said, This word is hard; who can hear it?
6:61	耶稣心里知道门徒为这话唧咕议论，就对他们说，这话是叫你们绊跌么？ But Jesus, knowing in Himself that His disciples were murmuring about this, said to them, Does this stumble you?
6:62	若是你们看见人子升到祂先前所在的地方，怎么样呢？ Then what if you saw the Son of Man ascending to where He was before?

亮光

五十七节是整本圣经中最强烈、最奇特的一句话：『活的父怎样差我来，我又因父活着，照样，那吃我的人，也要因我活着。』那是全能神，创造宇宙者的主劝我们吃祂。人绝不可能有这样的思想。主若未曾说过这话，我信我们没有人会有足够的胆量说，我们必须吃主。当然，我们能说，我们必须敬拜主，敬畏主，信靠主，顺从主，向主祷告，为主作工。我们可以用好些动词解释我们必须为主作什么，但是我们会害怕想到我们该吃祂。我们一天必须吃三餐，好叫我们能以活着。换句话说，我们是凭吃活着。照样，我们必须吃主，好叫我们能凭主活着。

约翰六章全章最重要的点就是：主是我们的食物，是生命的粮。吃祂不是一次永远的事，乃是天天的事，甚至是时时刻刻对主的经历。无论东方还是西方，人都是不断的吃，使人可以活着。因此，我们都必须接触主，并吃主。我们不仅仅是软弱的人，更是饥饿的人，需要主作我们生命的供应。主是可吃的，因为祂是生命的粮。祂像粮一样，是给我们吃的。我们必须运用我们的灵，从祂这话这灵得喂养。然后我们就要将祂接受到我们里面，消化祂、经历祂，并且时时刻刻应用祂。这就是一切－再没有别的了。我们必须忘记我们的作，我们的行，并学习吃基督，且凭我们所吃的活着。这就是我们日常生活所走的神圣、生命的路。

Enlightenment:

The strongest and strangest sentence in the entire Bible is verse 57. “As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats Me shall also live because of Me.” The Lord who is the Almighty God and the Creator of the universe exhorts us to eat Him. Man could never have such a thought. If this word had not been spoken by the Lord, I believe that none of us would possess enough courage to say that we must eat the Lord. Of course, we can say that we must worship and fear the Lord, trust and obey the Lord, pray and work for the Lord. We may use many other verbs to explain what we must do for the Lord, but we would be afraid to think that we should eat Him. We all must eat three meals a day in order to live. In other words, we live by eating. Likewise, we must eat the Lord so that we can live by the Lord.

The most important point in the whole chapter of John 6 is that the Lord is our food, the bread of life. To eat Him is not a once-for-all matter. It is a daily matter and even a moment by moment experience of the Lord. Whether in the East or West, people continually eat so that they may live. So, we all must also contact the Lord and eat Him. We are not merely weak people, but hungry people who need the Lord as our life supply. The Lord is edible because He is the bread of life. He is as edible as a piece of bread. We must exercise our spirit to feed on Him as the Word and as the Spirit. Then we shall receive Him into us, digest Him, experience Him, and apply Him moment by moment. This is all—there is nothing else. We must forget about our doing and our working and learn to eat Christ and live by what we have eaten of Him. This is the divine way of life for our daily living.