日日的变化
我们日日，甚至时时，在不断变化的过程中，变化成为与得着荣耀之基督同样的形像。变化不是一次而永远的，乃是逐渐发展的。使徒们从一种程度的荣耀，变化到另一种程度的荣耀。他们渐渐变化，从荣耀到荣耀，乃是从主灵变化成的。十八节里的“乃是”指明，使徒们渐渐变化，从荣耀到荣耀，就是从主灵变化成的。他们乃是从主灵渐渐变化成为与主同样的形像。
照哥林多后书来看，为着教会活基督的榜样包含了日日的变化这一方面。凡是为着教会活基督的人，必须是个天天变化的人。如果我们不在变化的过程中，我们基督徒生活里一定是出了毛病。一天过一天，我们必须被变化。
新陈代谢的过程
在新陈代谢的过程中，新的元素要供应到生机体里面。这新的元素顶替并排除旧的元素。因此，当新陈代谢的过程在生机体里面进行时，生机体里就造出新的元素，以顶替被排除的旧元素。所以新陈代谢包含三件事：第一，供应新的元素；第二，这新的元素顶替了旧的元素；第三，排除或挪去旧的元素，好产生新的东西。
我们消化、吸收食物，与新陈代谢有关。首先，我们把食物吃进胃里，然后食物就新陈代谢的消化，使我们全人得着供应，新的元素就能加进来顶替旧的元素，并且新的细胞就产生了。我们乃是藉着这新陈代谢的过程而长大并得加强。藉着合式的新陈代谢，我们的疾病也会得着医治。我们物质的身体常常藉着新陈代谢的过程，不断的得着医治。这种医治不是因着医生所给的药物而有的，乃是身体本身合式的尽功用而引起的。我们可以天天藉着新陈代谢的过程，而经历医治。我要强调一个事实：变化是新陈代谢的过程。我们可以把变化说明为属灵的新陈代谢。
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The Process of Transformation – 2 Cor. 3:18
Daily Transformation
Daily and even hourly, apostles were also in the process of being transformed into the same image, the image of the glorified Christ. This transformation did not happen once for all; it was a gradual matter. The apostles were transformed from one degree of glory to another. They were transformed from glory to glory, as from the Lord Spirit. The word is rendered “even as” in 2 Cor. 3:18 to mean “that is.” Hence, the apostles were being transformed from glory to glory, that is, from the Lord Spirit. They were being transformed into the image of the Lord from the Lord Spirit.
According to the book of 2 Corinthians, the pattern of living Christ for the church includes the aspect of daily transformation. Anyone who lives Christ for the church must be one who is daily being transformed. If we are not in the process of transformation, then something is wrong with us in our Christian life. Day by day we need to be transformed.
A Metabolic Process
In the process of metabolism a new element is supplied to an organism. This new element replaces the old element and causes it to be discharged. Therefore, as the process of metabolism takes place within a living organism, something new is created within it to replace the old element, which is carried away. Metabolism, therefore, includes three matters: first, the supplying of a new element; second, the replacing of the old element with this new element; and third, the discharge or the removal of the old element so that something new may be produced.
The digestion and assimilation of the food we eat involves metabolism. First, we take the food into our stomach. Then the food is digested metabolically to supply our being so that new elements may be added to replace the old and that new cells may be brought into being. Through this process of metabolism we grow and are strengthened. Also through proper metabolism we may be healed of certain illnesses. Constantly a healing is taking place in our physical bodies through the process of metabolism. This healing is not caused by medicine given by a physician; it is the healing that is caused by the proper functioning of the body itself. Daily by the process of metabolism we can experience healing. I wish to emphasize the fact that transformation is a metabolic process, a metabolic change. We may define transformation as spiritual metabolism.