由美地上劳苦所产生的基督这食物所构成
那地给我们的主要东西是食物。我们若没有食物，就无法是生机的。我们在那地上劳苦，那地就会产生食物。然后我们吃在那地上劳苦所产生的食物，结果就成为生机的。我们接受到里面作食物的任何东西，都生机的变化我们。以色列人在埃及时，吃埃及的食物，这食物使他们有了埃及的构成。以后，神将他们带出埃及，进到旷野，在那里停留四十年。他们在旷野时，每天都吃属天的东西－吗哪。吗哪将他们构成属天的子民。至终，吗哪止住了。关于这点，约书亚五章十二节说，『他们吃了那地出产的当日，吗哪就止住了；以色列人也不再有吗哪了，那一年他们却吃迦南地的出产。』从那时起，他们开始有不同的构成，因他们开始由美地的出产所构成。因此，以色列人的构成有三方面：首先，在埃及由埃及的食物来构成；其次，在旷野由吗哪所构成；第三，在迦南由那地的出产所构成。
今天我们在基督里的信徒，也照着我们所吃的被构成。我们若要成为属天的子民，就需要吃基督作我们属天的吗哪。我们若要成为得胜者，就需要在作美地的基督身上劳苦。在基督身上劳苦，意思就是得着基督作我们的享受。当然，首先我们需要取得那地。这需要我们赶出『迦南人』。据有基督作那地以后，我们需要在那地上劳苦。借着我们的劳苦，有些东西就会产生，那出产要成为我们的食物，我们的供应。我们吃基督作这食物，并享受祂，我们就由祂所构成，在生命和性情上与基督一样。
新陈代谢的变化，成为神的产业
这种对基督的享受要新陈代谢的变化我们，使我们成为基督的奇珍，祂的产业。保罗在以弗所一章说到这点。这一章首先有神的拣选和预定，然后有基督的救赎。借着基督的救赎，我们进入基督这一种特别的元素里；这元素要成为我们的享受，将我们构成神的产业。首先，神进入我们里面作我们的产业。我们享受基督，祂就将我们构成为神的产业。一面，有基督作我们的美地，作我们的产业。另一面，对这产业的享受使我们由基督所构成，因此我们就成为神的产业。
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Becoming Organic by Being Constituted with Christ as Food — John 6:34-35
Produced Through Our Labor on the Good Land
The main thing that the land affords us is food. If we do not have food, we cannot be organic. When we labor on the land, the land will produce food. Then we eat the food that is produced by our labor on the land, and as a result we become organic. Anything that we take into us as food transforms us organically. When the Israelites were in Egypt, they ate Egyptian food, and this food caused them to have an Egyptian constitution. Eventually, God brought them out of Egypt and into the wilderness, where they remained for forty years. Every day while they were in the wilderness they ate something heavenly – manna. The manna constituted them into a heavenly people. Eventually, the manna ceased. Regarding this, Joshua 5:12 says, “The manna ceased on that day, when they ate of the produce of the land; and there was no longer manna for the children of Israel, but they ate of the yield of the land of Canaan that year.” From that time onward, their constitution began to be different, for they began to be constituted with the produce of the good land. Thus, the children of Israel were constituted in three ways: first, in Egypt with Egyptian food; second, in the wilderness with manna; and third, in Canaan with the produce of the land.
As believers in Christ today, we also are constituted according to what we eat. If we want to be a heavenly people, we need to eat Christ as our heavenly manna. If we want to be overcomers, we need to labor on Christ as our good land. To labor on Christ means to gain Christ as our enjoyment. First, of course, we need to take the land. This requires that we dispossess the “Canaanites.” After possessing Christ as the land, we need to labor on the land. Through our labor something will be produced, and that produce will become our food, our supply. As we eat Christ as this food and enjoy Him, we will be constituted with Him, being made the same as Christ in life and nature.
Transformed Metabolically to Become God’s Inheritance
This enjoyment of Christ will transform us metabolically and cause us to become Christ’s treasure, His possession. Paul speaks of this in Ephesians 1. In this chapter we first have God’s choosing and predestinating, and then we have Christ’s redeeming. Through the redemption of Christ, we enter into Christ as a particular kind of element, and this element becomes our enjoyment that constitutes us into God’s inheritance. First, God comes into us to be our inheritance. When we enjoy Christ, He constitutes us to be God’s inheritance. On the one hand, we have Christ as our good land, as our possession. On the other hand, the enjoyment of this possession constitutes us with Christ, and we thereby become God’s inheritance.