Being Headed up in Christ by Growing in Life and by Walking in the Light. As God is light, so we, the children of God, are children of light, and we are even light itself because we are one with God in the Lord. (quote from, Witness Lee) How does God head up all things in Christ? Today in the church life God is heading up all the saints in Christ by His life and by His light (see John 1:4; 8:12). God is the source of life, and the way He recovers the oneness of the universe is by Him entering into man to be man’s life. God became a man to enter and be part of the “all things” which are to be headed up in Christ (Eph. 1:10), and then He became the life-giving Spirit to enter into us and make us constituents of the church, His Body. When Christ enters into us as our life, He starts a process of heading up all things in Himself by His life and by His light. As He shines on us, as we learn to walk in the light, and as we grow in life, we will be in one accord with the saints and one with God, being headed up in Christ. God’s way of recovery is Christ versus Satan, life versus death, light versus darkness, and order versus confusion. All things and people in this world are in a universal heap of collapse due to Satan, the factor of death; God comes in to head up all things in Christ through Christ as the factor of life (Ezek. 34:4-10). The way God recovers us is by imparting Himself into us as our life and then, from within, He spreads in all our being to head all our inward being in Himself (see Rom. 8:6, 10-11, 19-21). The more we grow in the divine life, the more we are being headed up in Christ; the way we are delivered and rescued from the heap of collapse is by growing in life every day (Eph. 4:15; Col. 2:19). The divine life in us is a shining life, bringing in the light of God to dispel all the darkness and confusion, and to remove any death and corruption. God’s life in us swallows any death, and God’s light dispels all the darkness. The more we enjoy the Lord, grow in life, and walk in the light, the more we are delivered out of confusion and darkness and we’re brought into order, harmony, and oneness. God is working today to obtain such a glorious expression of Himself in humanity – He is working out the New Jerusalem in us. In the church life we have the privilege and the responsibility to live out and work out the New Jerusalem by taking the lead to be headed up in Christ by life and light. God is working Himself into us until the whole church is full of life inwardly and is fully subject to Him as the Head. The whole universe is waiting for this: they are groaning in the slavery of corruption, waiting to see the glory of the freedom of the sons of God. We are all responsible to go to the Lord and allow Him to work Himself into us, allow the cross to break us, let God deal with us, and allow Christ’s life to live out through us. When God in Christ can be “diffused through us”, we will be fully mature. In that day all the nations will walk by our light – since we have become a diffuser for the divine light. As God is light, so we as children of God are becoming in reality children of light, and we become light itself because we are one with God in the Lord, being fully headed up in Christ (1 John 1:5; John 12:36; Eph. 5:8; Matt. 5:14). Lord, work Yourself into us today. We want to allow the cross to break us and let God deal with us until Christ’s life is lived out through us. Head us up in Christ, bringing all the things in our being and in our possession, even our very being, under Christ as the Head. Lord, we seek to grow in life so that we would be rescued out of the heap of collapse and headed up in Christ. We want to walk in the light so that we would be controlled by the light and be brought into order, harmony, and oneness. Lord, gain many saints who would take the lead to grow in life and walk in the light so that they would be headed up in Christ for the New Jerusalem.. Amen
Posted on: Sat, 06 Dec 2014 12:28:10 +0000
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