神在我們身上的旨意,乃是要我們認識包羅萬有的基督,經歷祂,並以祂作我們的生命而活祂。這樣認識基督,才是充分認識神的旨意。
要認識並經歷這位包羅萬有的基督,需要一切屬靈的智慧和悟性。『一切』和『屬靈的』這兩個辭是形容智慧和悟性。屬靈的智慧和悟性是屬於我們靈裡神的靈,這與僅僅在人黑暗心思裡智慧派的哲學相對。智慧是在我們的靈裡,以察知神永遠的旨意;屬靈的悟性是在我們由那靈更新的心思裡,以明白並翻譯我們在靈裡所察知的。
智慧是我們靈裡的直覺,悟性則是我們心思裡的領悟。我們透過靈裡的直覺,感覺到有關基督的事。同時,我們需要心思來翻譯靈裡所感覺到的,為要有所明白。這樣,我們就有話語說出我們所感受和明白的。這需要我們運用一切屬靈的智慧和悟性。
The will of God for us is that we know the all-inclusive Christ, experience Him, and live Him as our life. To know Christ in this way is to have the full knowledge of God’s will.
To know and experience the all-inclusive Christ requires all spiritual wisdom and understanding. The words 「all」 and 「spiritual」 modify both wisdom and understanding. Spiritual wisdom and understanding are of the Spirit of God in our spirit in contrast to Gnostic philosophy, which is merely in the darkened human mind. Wisdom is in our spirit to perceive God’s eternal will; spiritual understanding is in our mind, renewed by the Spirit, to understand and interpret what we perceive in our spirit.
Wisdom is the intuition in our spirit, whereas understanding is the realization in our mind. Through the intuition in our spirit, we sense something concerning Christ. Along with this, we need our mind to interpret what we sense in our spirit in order to have understanding. Then we shall have the utterance to speak forth what we sense and understand. This requires the exercise of all spiritual wisdom and understanding.