我们需要让子住在我们里面，我们住在祂里面，祂就住在我们里面。但许多时候我们不给祂地位、空间来住在我们里面。主渴望扩展祂在我们里面的住留，然而我们却喜欢将祂的住留弄窄了，我们竟限制了祂。当基督的住留逐渐在我们里面扩展时，却有一些东西在里面限制了这位住留的基督。为什么有那么多的圣徒几乎没有生命的长进？只因他们不让主在他们里面扩展，或许没有绝缘体，但却有太多的限制。赞美主，主有耐心且有恩慈，祂永不离开你，祂在等候，最多只是转过脸去而已，但是祂仍留在这里。愿我们仰望祂的怜悯与恩典，好叫我们一直给祂地位在我们里面扩展，允许祂扩展到我们里面的每一个角落和通道，这乃是生命长大的路。
We need to allow the Son abide in us, we abide in him and he abides in us. But many times we do not give him the ground, the space, to abide in us. The Lord desires to spread his abiding within us. However, we like to narrow down his abiding, we even restrict him. While Christ’s abiding is gradually spreading within us, there is something within that restricts this abiding Christ. Why do so many of the saints scarcely grow in life? Simply because they do not allow the Lord to spread within them. There may be no insulation, but there is too much limitation. Praise the Lord that he is patient and kind. He will never leave you, he is waiting. At the most, he will turn his face aside, but still stays here. May we look to him for mercy and grace that we may always give him the ground to expand within us, allowing him to spread into every corner and avenue of our inner being. This is the way to grow in life.