Since God is the proper center of the human life, there are five things that we must do:- 1. Take God as the center of our life If we do this, regardless of what field we eventually work in, we will perform our work very well. Conversely, if we do not take God as the center in our occupation, we can potentially harm ourselves, our society, and our country. I hope you will grasp this point firmly and accurately. 2. Love God We must see that if we love anything apart from God, the thing we love will become a problem to us. Loving God is the only thing we can do that will not become a problem. All man’s love should be poured upon God. All our hearts should love God. 3. Consecrate ourselves to God At least once we should pray to God thoroughly, offering ourselves completely to Him and allowing Him to be the center of our life. We should never be afraid that if we consecrate our life to God, our future will be difficult. Such a fear is unfounded. If we consecrate ourselves to God, our human life will be a balanced life. We should allow God to come into us and be our everything. 4. Contact God in all things In our daily walk we should obey the feeling that God gives us within. If He prohibits us from doing a certain thing, we should not do it. If we have the feeling that He wants us to do something, we should do it properly. We need to diligently obey every feeling we receive from God. 5. Spend time to get into His Word, to labor on the Bible We must study the Bible properly from its first word to its last. We need to see not only the facts but also the principles, the life, and the truth contained therein. If we exercise in this way, we become like transparent glass. Whatever comes to us will not be a problem, because God will regulate us from within. We can see in the New Testament that Paul was such a person. He knew how to be abased and how to abound, how to be filled and how to hunger. In everything and in all things he had learned the secret (Philippians 4:12). Neither suffering nor joy could press him down. He had the secret, which is Christ. Paul took Christ as his center in everything. Hence, when he was in prison, he was able to endure sufferings that would be unbearable to others. He could do all things in Him who empowered him (Philippians 4:13). Because your thinking for me Now at length anew has blossomed, Which you had indeed taken thought, But lacked opportunity. Not by lack so that I speak, But Christ my secret, For I have learned in whatever circumstances To be content. 2. I know how to be abased, And I know how to abound, To be filled, to hunger or lack, In all things and in everything I've learned the secret. 3. I am able to do all things In Him who empowers me. Nevertheless you did well To have fellowship with me In my affliction.  |
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
We Have The Secret, Which Is Christ!!!
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
The All-inclusive Christ
The very Christ, into whom we all have been called, is all-inclusive!!!
This all-inclusive One, with the riches of at least twenty items, God has given to us as our portion for our enjoyment. We should concentrate on Him, not on any persons, things, or matters other than Him. We should focus on Him as our unique center appointed by God, that all the problems among the believers may be solved. It is into the fellowship of such a One that we have been called by God. This fellowship of God’s Son became the fellowship that the apostles shared with the believers (Acts 2:42; 1 John 1:3) in His Body, the church, and should be the fellowship that we enjoy in partaking of His blood and His body at His table (1 Corinthians 10:16, 21). Such a fellowship, which is carried out by the Spirit (2 Corinthians 13:14), must be unique because He is unique; it forbids any division among the members of His unique Body. -- 1 Corinthians 1:9 Footnote 2
- He is the portion given to us by God (1 Corinthians 1:2).
- He is God’s power and God’s wisdom as righteousness, sanctification, and redemption to us (1 Corinthians 1:24, 30).
- He is the Lord of glory (1 Corinthians 2:8) for our glorification (1 Corinthians 2:7; Romans 8:30).
- He is the depths (deep things) of God (1 Corinthians 2:10).
- He is the unique foundation of God’s building (1 Corinthians 3:11).
- He is our Passover (1 Corinthians 5:7), the unleavened bread (1 Corinthians 5:8), the spiritual food, the spiritual drink, and the spiritual rock (1 Corinthians 10:3-4).
- He is the Head (1 Corinthians 11:3) and the Body (1 Corinthians 12:12).
- He is the firstfruits (1 Corinthians 15:20, 23), the second man (1 Corinthians 15:47), and the last Adam (1 Corinthians 15:45); and as such He became the life-giving Spirit (1 Corinthians 15:45) that we may receive Him into us as our everything.
This all-inclusive One, with the riches of at least twenty items, God has given to us as our portion for our enjoyment. We should concentrate on Him, not on any persons, things, or matters other than Him. We should focus on Him as our unique center appointed by God, that all the problems among the believers may be solved. It is into the fellowship of such a One that we have been called by God. This fellowship of God’s Son became the fellowship that the apostles shared with the believers (Acts 2:42; 1 John 1:3) in His Body, the church, and should be the fellowship that we enjoy in partaking of His blood and His body at His table (1 Corinthians 10:16, 21). Such a fellowship, which is carried out by the Spirit (2 Corinthians 13:14), must be unique because He is unique; it forbids any division among the members of His unique Body. -- 1 Corinthians 1:9 Footnote 2
Hymns, #510 -> http://www.hymnal.net/hymn.php/h/510
I’ve found the One of peerless worth,
My heart doth sing for joy;
And sing I must, for Christ I have:
Oh, what a Christ have I!
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