神渴望基督能藉着人性生活得着彰显。我们在歌罗西三章十八节至四章一节看见这事，这一段是以弗所五章二十二节至六章九节的姊妹节，说到信徒的伦理关系。以弗所书着重在正常的教会生活里，为着基督身体的彰显，需要有被灵充满的伦理关系。歌罗西书强调我们该藉着让祂丰富的话住在里面，持定基督作我们的元首，并以祂作我们的生命，使最高的伦理关系能以实现，叫祂得着彰显。这种伦理关系不是出于我们天然的生命，乃是出于作我们生命的基督。
如果我们过与基督联合的生活，基督就要藉着我们的人性得着彰显。基督是在人性生活中，不是在天使的生活中得着彰显；天使不能彰显基督。父已经命定我们这些祂所拣选的人作祂儿子的彰显。诗歌第三百零四首说到“从我活出你的自己”（生命诗歌 #421），这该是我们的祷告。
基督需要在那些作丈夫、作妻子、作父母、作儿女、作主人、作奴仆的人中间得着彰显。为了要彰显基督，我们需要有正确的、正常的人性生活。如果我们看见这事，我们就会为着我们的人性生活赞美主！不仅如此，我们对婚姻生活该有新的珍赏。我能见证，为着我的妻子、儿女和孙儿女们，我满了感谢。在夫妻的关系中，在父母与儿女的关系中，我们需要活出基督并彰显基督。
在主仆的关系中，原则也是一样。保罗在歌罗西三章二十二至二十五节，嘱咐作奴仆的。他在二十四节说到得著『基业为赏报”。在这一点上，以弗所六章八节没有这里说得清楚。“基业”是信徒所要承受的。“基业为赏报，”指明主用祂所要给信徒的基业作激励，使他们在对祂的事奉上忠信。不忠信的人必要失去这赏报（太二四45-51，太二五20-29）。
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Expressing Christ in Human Life — Col. 3:18-19, 23-24
God desires that Christ be expressed through human life. We see this in 3:18 – 4:1, a sister passage to Ephesians 5:22 – 6:9, regarding the believers’ ethical relationships. In Ephesians the emphasis is on the need of spirit-filled ethical relationships for the expression of the Body in the normal church life. In Colossians the emphasis is that we should hold Christ as our Head and take Him as our life by having His rich word dwelling in us, that the highest ethical relationships, issuing not from our natural life but from Christ as our life, may be realized for His expression.
If we live in union with Christ, Christ will be expressed through our humanity. Christ is to be expressed in the human life, not in the angelic life. Angels cannot express Christ. The Father has ordained that we, His chosen ones, be the expression of His Son. “Live Thyself, Lord Jesus, through me,” should be our prayer (see Hymns of Life # 421).
Christ needs to be expressed in those who are husbands, wives, parents, children, masters and slaves. In order to express Christ, we need to have a proper and normal human life. If we see this, we shall praise the Lord for our human living. Furthermore, we shall have a fresh appreciation for married life. I can testify that I am thankful for my wife, children and grandchildren. I am grateful for all the lessons the Lord has taught me through them. In the relationship between wife and husband and between children and parents we need to live out Christ and express Him.
The principle is the same in the relationship between masters and servants. In verses 22 through 25 Paul gives a charge to the slaves. In verse 24 he speaks of receiving “the reward of the inheritance.” This point is not made as clear in Ephesians 6:8 as it is here. There is an inheritance for the believers. The reward of the inheritance indicates that the Lord uses the inheritance which He will give His believers as an incentive that they may be faithful in their service to Him. The unfaithful ones will surely miss this reward (Matt. 24:45-51; 25:20-29).