‹‹ WEEK 1 — DAY 5 ›› Morning Nourishment John 1:4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. John 1:16 For of His fullness we have all received, and grace upon grace. Outside of the divine revelation of the Bible, there is no religion or philosophy that says that we can live in another person. But the Bible reveals that we can live in the Triune God. What a wonder and an honor it is to be those who can live in the Triune God! To live in the Triune God is miraculous. In the entire universe there is such a miracle that we can live in the Triune God. To live in the Triune God is to have Him as our dwelling place, as our home, for our daily life. The vine tree with its branches is the very organism of the Triune God. Thus, to live in the Triune God is to abide in Christ as God’s organism. (Living in and with the Divine Trinity, pp. 82-83) Today’s Reading Hymn #476 in our Chinese hymnal says, “Live in the light of life, fellowship with the Lord; / Gaze at the Lord’s dear face, follow the Spirit’s move; / Pathway of glory take, praising Him day by day; / Live in the light of life.” I hope that we can all experience abiding in the Lord and enjoying His life in this way until our living is transformed and we are blessed by the Lord’s grace. (Abiding in the Lord to Enjoy His Life, pp. 16-17) We should continuously live in the light. When in a particular matter we receive shining and thereby come to know the will of God, it is not a matter of obeying once, and and that is all. We should learn to continually keep ourselves under the enlightening we have received. This means that when you receive shining in a certain matter, you should submit not only at that particular time, but you should continually submit according to that principle. (The Knowledge of Life, p. 219) Whenever we live in resurrection, we bring humanity into divinity. This means that when we live in resurrection, we bring ourselves into God, and when we do not live in resurrection, we are outside of God. Thus, resurrection is still going on today. Romans 6:4-5 says that we were buried through baptism into death and were raised to walk in newness of life (v. 4), which is the likeness of Christ’s resurrection (v. 5). As we are living in resurrection, we are one with God and are being brought into God. (The Triune God to Be Life to the Tripartite Man, p. 52) Ephesians 5:1-21 presents a practical and fine aspect of Christ: the light with love for the believers’ walk. In the New Testament, light and love, like reality (truth) and grace, are a pair. Light is the source of reality, and love is the source of grace. Hence, light and love form a pair as the source of reality and grace; reality and grace form a pair as the issue of light and love. When light shines out, it becomes truth; when love is expressed, it becomes grace. The Gospel of John reveals that when Christ came, grace and reality came with Him (1:17); grace came from divine love, and reality came from divine light. The first Epistle of John goes on to reveal that when we receive Christ, fellowship with Him, and live by grace and reality, He brings us into the fellowship with the Father; in the Father’s presence we touch His love as the source of grace and His light as the source of truth. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, p. 3439) If we have not come to the point of being in the divine glory, we have not yet been fully perfected into one. But when we reach this point, we shall be on the highest level of oneness, having been perfected into one by the divine glory given to the believers to express the Triune God in a corporate way. When we reach this point, we are willing to forsake everything. We shall not only forego all the worldly attractions but also all the doctrines and concepts. We shall abandon everything and be for just one thing—the glorious expression of the Triune God. This expression is a miniature of the New Jerusalem. Lee, Witness (2014-02-21). The Holy Word for Morning Revival - The Intrinsic Significance of the Church (Posición en Kindle363-382). Living Stream Ministry. Edición de Kindle.
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