林后三 16~18『但他们的心几时转向主，帕子就几时除去了。而且主就是那灵；主的灵在那里，那里就有自由。但我们众人既然以没有帕子遮蔽的脸，好像镜子观看并返照主的荣光，就渐渐变化成为与他同样的形像，从荣耀到荣耀，乃是从主灵变化成的。』
变化不是外面的改变和更正，乃是神的生命在信徒里面新陈代谢的作用。变化不是从外面来矫正，乃是里面有新陈代谢的作用，而显在外面。
比方，一个人营养不良，面黄肌瘦，这不是擦擦粉就可以改善的，必须补充营养，身体好起来，面色自然会红润。路加十五章说到浪子回家，得着袍子遮身；但他面黄肌瘦，光有袍子还是不管用，还必须吃肥牛犊，连续吃几天，里面起新陈代谢的作用，身体自然壮起来，面色也就好看了。因此，靠外面擦粉而有的，不是真美丽；里面新陈代谢而显於外面的，才是真健康、真美丽（神救恩生机的一面，五三页）。
信徒若肯在神圣的生命里长大，这神圣生命的成分，就得以在他们里面增多，而起了新陈代谢的改变，使他们里面的性情变质，更使他们外面的形像变形，就是变得和主的形像相同。这不像中国儒家反省改过的修行；那是他们自己的修行。但我们因观看主而变成主的形像，不是我们自修的结果，乃是主灵，就是主基督在他复活的时候所变成赐生命之灵，在我们里面的运行，借着神圣生命的成分，在我们里面加多而有新陈代谢的改变（林后三 18）。这完全是主灵和神圣生命在我们里面运行工作而有的变化。…我们要有这种的变化，首先必须借着转向主而去掉在旧观念上的种种帕子（16），更要用没有帕子遮蔽的脸，仰望主而如镜返照主的荣光（18）。犹太人的问题出在他们心上有很厚的帕子。我们若有帕子，就无法被变化；但我们的心几时转向主，帕子就几时除去，我们就能以没有帕子遮蔽的脸，好像镜子观看主。结果我们这镜子上所显出来的，就是主荣耀的形像。这样，我们就渐渐变化成为与他同样的形像，从一层荣耀到另一层荣耀，而彰显他（神救恩生机的一面，五三至五四页）。
变化是由主灵（是灵的基督）所完成，将信徒变化成为基督荣耀的形像（18）。变化所包括的新陈代谢，至终使我们变化成为基督荣耀的形像。…信徒应当以没有帕子遮蔽的脸，好像镜子观看并返照主，以彰显他。这给变化的灵有立场，也有路，将信徒全人变化成为基督荣耀的形像；他作为神的长子，彰显神到极点。…信徒应当凭着灵活着、凭着灵而行（加五 16、25），并照着调和的灵而行（罗八 4 下），使基督神圣的生命有路规律他们，并将他们变化成为主在荣耀里的形像（神生机救恩的秘诀─『那灵自己同我们的灵』，四四至四五页）。
参读：哥林多后书生命读经，第二十三至二十四篇。
2 Cor. 3:16-18 "But whenever
their heart turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. And the Lord is the
Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. But we all with unveiled
face, beholding and reflecting like
a mirror the
glory of the
Lord, are being transformed into the same image from
glory to glory, even as from the Lord Spirit."
Transformation is not an outward change or correction but the metabolic
function of the life of God in the believers. Transformation is not to make
some corrections from without; it is the function of metabolism from within and
is manifested without.
Suppose a person is undernourished and appears thin and sickly. He
cannot improve by merely applying some powder to his face. Rather, he needs to
be supplemented with nutrition; then his physical condition will improve and
his facial color will spontaneously become rosy. Luke 15 tells us that when the
prodigal son returned home, he had a robe put on him for his covering, yet he
still appeared thin and sickly. Merely to have the robe was not sufficient; he
still needed to eat the fattened calf for several days. When metabolism began
to work in him, he would naturally become strong and his facial color would
look pretty. Thus, the beauty that comes by applying powder is not genuine
beauty; only that which is expressed outwardly through the inward metabolism is
genuine health and real beauty. (The Organic Aspect of God's Salvation, pp.
52-53)
If the believers are willing to grow in the divine life, the element of
the divine life will increase in them and bring forth a metabolic change. Thus,
their inward disposition will be transformed, and their outward image will also
be transformed to be the same as the image of the Lord. This is not moral
cultivation by examining oneself and mending one's ways as taught by
Confucianism in China. That is man's own moral cultivation. When we are
transformed into the image of the Lord by beholding Him, this is not the result
of our self-cultivation, but it is the Lord Spirit, the life-giving Spirit who
the Lord Christ became in His resurrection, who moves within us to bring forth
a metabolic change through the increase of the element of the divine life in us
(2 Cor. 3:18). This is altogether a transformation brought forth by the moving
and working of the Lord Spirit and the divine life within us....If we desire to
have this kind of transformation, we must first remove the various kinds of
veils of our old concepts by turning to the Lord (2 Cor. 3:16) and by beholding
Him with an unveiled face and reflecting His glory like a mirror (v. 18). The
problem with the Jews was that they had a thick veil on their heart. If we are
veiled, we cannot be transformed. However, whenever our heart turns to the
Lord, the veil is taken away. Then we can behold the Lord with an unveiled face
like a mirror. Consequently, what is expressed through us as a mirror is the
glorious image of the Lord. In this way we are being transformed into the same
image as the Lord from one level of glory to another level of glory for His
expression. (The Organic Aspect of God's Salvation, p. 53)
Transformation is accomplished
by the Lord
Spirit (the pneumatic Christ), transforming the believers
into the image of the glory of Christ (2 Cor. 3:18). The metabolism involved in
transformation eventually transforms us into the image of the glory of
Christ....The believers should behold the Lord with an unveiled face and
reflect Him like a mirror to express Him. This gives the ground and the way for
the transforming Spirit to transform the believers' entire being into the
glorious image of Christ as the firstborn Son of God who expresses God to the
uttermost....The believers should live and walk by the Spirit (Gal. 5:16, 25)
and walk according to the mingled spirit (Rom. 8:4b), that the divine life of
Christ may have the way to regulate them and transform them into the image of
the Lord in glory. (The Secret of God's Organic Salvation─“the Spirit Himself
with Our Spirit," p. 41)
Further Reading: Life-study of 2
Corinthians, msgs. 23-24
