约翰福音-John 14 章 5~7 节
| 14:5 |
多马对祂说，主啊，我们不知道你往那里去，怎能知道那条路？ Thomas said to Him, Lord, we do not know where You are going; how can we know the way? |
| 14:6 |
耶稣说，我就是道路、实际、生命；若不藉着我，没有人能到父那里去。 Jesus said to him, I am the way and the reality and the life; no one comes to the Father except through Me. |
| 14:7 |
你们若认识我，也就认识我的父；从今以后，你们认识祂，并且已经看见祂。 If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and henceforth you know Him and have seen Him. |
Enlightenment:
The reality needs the life. The Lord Himself is the life to us. This life brings us the reality, and the reality becomes the way for us to enter into the Father. First, Christ is our life. Then this life brings us all the reality of the Godhead. Eventually, this reality of the Godhead is the way for us to get into the Father. When the Lord is life to us, then we have reality. When the Lord is our reality, then we have the way for us to get into the Father.
For many years I did not understand why the Lord put the way first, the truth or reality second, and the life last. Finally I understood the meaning of the order. If the Lord is going to be our way, He must be our reality, and if He is going to be our reality, He must be our life. By having Him as life, we have Him as our reality, and by having Him as our reality, we have Him as our way into the Father. The Lord Himself is the way, this way is the reality, and the reality is in the life.
In verse 6 the Lord did not say, “No one comes to heaven except through Me.” No, He said, “No one comes to the Father except through Me.” The Lord’s intention is not to bring us into heaven but to bring us into God, into the Father. The Lord is not the way to bring the believers into heaven but the way to bring them into the Father.
亮光
实际需要生命。主自己对我们乃是生命。这生命将实际带给我们，这实际又成了道路，使我们得以进入父里面。首先基督是我们的生命，然后这生命将神格的一切实际带给我们。最终，这神格的实际乃是我们进入父里面的道路。当主对我们是生命时，我们就有了实际。当主是我们的实际时，我们就有道路得以进入父里面。
多年来我不领会，为何主先说道路，再说真理，或实际，末了才说生命。最后我领会这个次序的意义。主若要作我们的道路，必须是我们的实际；祂若要作我们的实际，就必须是我们的生命。得着祂作生命，就得着祂作我们的实际；得着祂作我们的实际，就得着祂作我们进入父里面的道路。主自己就是道路，这道路是实际，而这实际乃是在生命里。
在六节主不是说，『若不藉着我，没有人能到天上去。』不，祂乃是说，『若不藉着我，没有人能到父那里去。』主的心意不是带我们到天上去，乃是带我们进入神里面，进入父里面。主不是带信徒到天上去的道路，乃是带信徒进入父里面的道路。