Blessed Are Our Eyes That Sees

Luke 10:21-24 RecVer

21. In that hour He exulted in the Holy Spirit and said, I extol You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and have revealed them to babes. Yes, Father, for thus it has been well pleasing in Your sight.

22. All things have been delivered to Me by My Father; and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son and him to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.

23. And turning to the disciples, He said privately, Blessed are the eyes which see the things that you see.

24. For I tell you that many prophets and kings have wanted to perceive the things that you see, and have not perceived them, and to hear the things that you hear, and have not heard them.

God, the Father, in His sovereign wisdom is pleased to reveal the heavenly and spiritual vision to me as well. In last nine days in Hyderabad, I had the privilege of attending the brothers training for four and a half days, then a full day fellowship on the Lord’s move in our country, and another two and a half days of full-timers training. In all these nine days, the Lord has been pleased to reveal the deep and hidden things in His heart.

In fact, God revealed Himself to us through the fellowship of the word in spirit. His light shown on us that we could see and know our own self, see the vision and revelation of God and His work in the present age, and the need for us to be perfected to participate in His building work of His Body, He also showed us His leading by revelation and experience to constitute us as His New Testament ministers. He also bestowed on us the grace to be His gifted members to build up His Body to bring Him back.

Therefore, blessed indeed are our eyes that saw what He has shown us to see. He has hidden these things to many, but to us, He is pleased to reveal. What a grace! What a mercy!

Every day, I was enlivened by the Lord’s speaking to the extent that I wrote an article on "Knowing God and Knowing Self," followed by two hymns, and on the ninth day, another hymn on "Pure in Heart." Only when the Lord enlightened me and gave me the burden and the words, I would write hymns. The fact that I was led to write hymns are signs of seeing something new and deep. In fact, I had not been writing hymns for quite sometime until the Lord’s fresh shining and speaking this time.

Praise the Lord for His divine revelation! Blessed indeed are our eyes that sees what He has shown us!

Lesson from Character Crisis

Last week, I received calls and texts messages from serving ones in one of our offices in the South. The message was loud and clear, to summarise it, a character crisis. Due to the character problems of the serving ones comprising loose talks, hidden ambition, pride, temper and anger, a full blown crisis broke out causing panic and shock in the office. It was very unbecoming of the serving ones to fall into uncontrolled anger. Though I received reports about the incident from both the parties, I kept the matter to myself and my co-working brother, and meanwhile brought the matter to the Lord in prayer and careful consideration. It was natural for me to act immediately and take action, but I dared not trust my natural man. I prefer to defer the matter for a latter time as I needed time to pray over amd consider carefully before taking any action. Lest I fall into the same trap of Satan in dealing the flesh with the flesh. The flesh must not be dealt with the flesh. The flesh must be dealt with the Spirit.

Later in the afternoon, I had a time of fellowship with my co-working brother and had direct calls over the phone with the concerned persons. After hearing them all, we left the matter to be considered more as we would be meeting some more brothers in the following weekend training in Hyderabad. 

In the following weekend, we had a time of fellowship with the responsible brothers of the church where the incidents took place and considerd the matter carefully. We all felt good for one of the brothers to personally check with the serving one concerned about his personal and psychological well being. Though we intended to take some strict action, we would wait for a proper time to execute it.

Meanwhile, I also received messages of apology and description of how the indecent transpired. I have forwared the messages and conveyed the same to my co-working brother.

This was a good test case for me in handling crisis. First thing is, I acknowledged the fact that I cannot solve the problem and therefore, bring the matter to the Lord in prayer and also to the brothers concerned in fellowship. My greatest concern for myself is, I should not misrepresent God. If God has to fire the one concerned, I would do so. If God has to forgive and retain him, I will also do so. Until I heard from the supreme Judge, God Himself, I would wait and wait. Once the decision is made clear, I would simple pronounce the decision, whatever it may be, as from God.

For to some extent, I have learned not to live my life, but to take the life of Christ as my life. This character crisis involving our serving ones is a good examination for me. I pray that I learn the lesson I need to learn.

As the decision on action to be taken is still awaited, I wait in prayer. Meanwhile, I pray for the Lord to perfect all of us in our humanity that we can indeed live out the humanity of Christ. 

Lord, have mercy on us and perfect us in our living and service.

The Humanity of Jesus

Ephesians 4:1-2 RecVer

1. I beseech you therefore, I, the prisoner in the Lord, to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,

2. With all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, bearing one another in love.

God's heart's desire is to build up the Body of Christ. For this, He need materials for His building. The materials are the regenerated and transformed believers. There are many regenerated believers indeed, but how many of these ones have cooperated with God to deny their soul life, take up the cross, and follow the Lord? This refers to the need for a proper humanity, the humanity of Jesus gained through years of experiences of the Lord, and thus been transformed.

All these years of my life, I have realised that one of the biggest hindrances in a believers life is the lack of proper humanity. Put it other way, the person or the being of the ones concerned is what matters most. Because of lack of proper humanity, many saints are not growing. Instead, they become problematic and causes trouble in their own personal life, marriage life, work life, and even in many cases, the church life too. I have been observing this scenario in the lives of some brothers known to me. Even to some of these ones, I dare not stretch my hand to do any thing, for I know I don't have the maturity or the anointing to do so. The only thing I can do for such ones is, to pray for them that Lord may have mercy on them that they may realise their wickedness, repent, and cooperate with the Holy Spirit's transforming work in their lives.

These days, as we are in a full-timers training in Hyderabad, the Lord’s speaking has also been on this line; the need for a proper humanity. For the building up of the Body of Christ, the first requirement is the humanity of Jesus. If the believers are not transformed and their humanity is not the humanity of Jesus, they are not qualified to build the Body. The way, therefore, is to see that one's humanity is worthless, than abhor it, open to the Lord to receive the Lord’s divine dispensing with His divine life and nature, eat the humanity of Jesus by eating Jesus through the word day by day, and through the discipline of the Holy Spirit making all the words real to the believers. In this way, the humanity of Jesus will be wrought in the believers, who then, will live out Jesus' humanity as in Ephesians 4: 2 and 3.

Ephesians 4:2-3 RecVer

2. With all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, bearing one another in love,

3. Being diligent to keep the oneness of the Spirit in the uniting bond of peace.

Job of the Old Testament is a good example of a natural man dealt with by God through outward circumstances and consumeed in his natural goodness. Then, Gid further dealt with him to open his eyes to see God, in addition to all the hearings of God. 

Likewise, today, we all need the stripping and consuming of our natural man, and then the filling of the divine life with the divine nature to be reconstituted with God like an Acacia wood overlaid with gold. Only this transformed humanity can be used for the building up of the Body of Christ. 

May the Lord grant us all the proper humanity to serve Him in the way He wants us to serve Him. 

Hymn: Asking and Abiding

A fellowship with a brother on prayer especially concerning the words of the Lord in John 14, 15, 16, 17 where the Lord Jesus specifically asked his disciples to ask Him, "Ask Me." Based on this, the following hymn was composed.

Prayer: Abiding in the Lord

Tune: Sweet Hour of Prayer

Enlightened by and through the fellowship of Br. RC, and based on the fellowship today at Hyderabad 22 Aug 2026, this hymn was composed, a hymn on prayer.

1

(John 15:4,5,16)

"Abide in Me, Abide in Me."

Jesus, to us, Thy loving charge.

Cause us, Lord, to abide in Thee,

Deal our soul life, and our self purge.

Thou art the Vine, we are Thine branch,

Thou set us forth to bear Thee fruits.

Abide in Thee, Lord, cause us to

Bear remaining, abundant fruits.

2

(John 14:13,14; 15:7,16; 16:23,24,26)

"Ask in My name, Ask in My name."

Jesus, 'tis Thine loving command.

In Thy Person, in life, nature,

Abide in Thee, as Thou demand.

In mind, in will, in emotion,

Lord, one with Thee, in one spirit.

We ask Thee Lord, gain us fully;

Abide in Thee, by Thy Spirit.

3

(Phil. 4:6, James 4:8; Col. 3:15)

We ask Thee, Lord, teach us to pray, 

According to Thy will, Thy words:

No anxiety, no double soul,

No doubting mind, no blabbling words;

In obedience, in submission

To Thee, Thy word, and Thy Body;

In discerning, in deciding, 

In one with Thee. Lord, we ask Thee!

4

(Rev. 8:3,4; 1 John 2:27; Matt. 11:28-30)

Teach us to pray, persistently:

Praying, asking, by inner sense,

Praying the burdens Thou bestow-- 

Sweet fragrance of burning incense,

Praying, caring the peace within,

Fill with insight, full of foresight,

Praying by inner anointing.

And thus, winning Thy heart's delight.

5

(Ezekiel 36:35; Isaiah 45:11)

"Inquire of Me, Inquire of Me."

Thou, Lord, command us to inquire,

'Tis to increase men like a flock.

Increase in us, Lord we inquire. 

Of Thy Son and work of Thy hands, 

Work Thyself into us th'roughly.

Do Thou through us, do Thou in us.

To fulfill Thy economy. 

Hymn: See God and Know God

On the first day of our fellowship with a brother, the Lord opened my eyes to see once again how much my eyes need to be opened to see God, and the result of seeing God is to see my self. Job was indeed perfect outwardly as God testified about him, yet, inwardly he lacked divine life and nature of God. Despite all the dealings he had gone through, he was not able to see himself. Therefore, he kept defending his integrity to all who debated or questioned him. This cycle of debate went on and on until God came and asked him questions after questions in Job 38-41 until Job realised he was nothing, knew nothing, and that God is everything. 

Job 42:1-6 RecVer

1. Then Job answered Jehovah and said,

2. I know that You can do all things / And that no purpose of Yours can be restrained.

3. Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge? / Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, / Things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.

4. Hear now, and I will speak; / I will ask of You, and You shall inform me.

5. I had heard of You by the hearing of the ear, / But now my eye has seen You;

6. Therefore I abhor myself, and I repent / In dust and ashes.

Based on the fellowship as the initiation, the following hymn was composed, with what I have understood of the word of God concerning seeing God and seeing one self.

Prayer: To See God and Know God; to See and Know Oneself 

(Enlightened by and through the fellowship of Br. RC, I wrote this hymn today, the 21 Aug 2026)

Tune: What a Friend We Have in Jesus Hymn 789

1

(Matt. 9:27; 7:5; 8:25; Eph. 1:18; John 15:26)

Son of David, Lord, have mercy!

Heal my sight that I may see!

Open my eyes, Lord, to see Thee,

All Thou art, see Thee clearly.

Son of God, enlighten my heart;

To know Thee and Thy glory,

To know the hope of Thy calling

To know Thee in reality.

2

(Psalms. 43:3-4; 133:3)

Lord, send forth Thy light and Thy truth,

Lead me to Thy holy mount.

Bring me to Thy tabernacle,

To Thy altar, to Thy fount.

Lord, there, to praise and worship Thee,

There, in oneness we're dwelling ,

There, Thy anointing bestowing,

There, Thou command Thy blessing!

3

(Exodus, Acts 7; Heb. 9-10)

Out of Egypt to wilderness,

Lead me onto Thy good land;

Red Sea crossed, then o'er to Jordan,

Lead through and through by Thy hand.

Outer court to the Holy Place, 

Passing through the riven veil,

Into to the Holy of Holies,

To live e're within the veil.

4

(Psalms 103:7; Rev.3:16-18)

Thank Thee, Father, for Thy mercy,

Revealing Thyself to me;

Thy way and Thy deeds to know Thee,

To know myself, and self to see.

Lord, I confess I am lukewarm,

Wretched, miserable, poor,

Blind and naked, I come to Thee,

Anoint my eyes, Thou to see.

5

(Job 42:5-6; Rom.8:13)

Lord, my hearing ear had heard Thee,

Lord, now, my eye has seen Thee.

Lord, I abhor myself and repent

In dust and ashes, unto Thee.

Lord, my end is Thy beginning.

Lord, my death is Thy living.

Through Thy cross by Thy Spirit,

Lord, Thou be e'er my living.

A Day in Mathura

Persecutions in North India have been gathering steam. In the midst, some of our brothers were affected while in a meeting in Mathura and were imprisoned and case filed. After over four months of imprisonment, they were bailed out. However, their belongings confiscated were not bailed out as these required another lengthy legal procedures. For these, there is a need for guarantor. 

To be one of the guarantors for one of the brothers, I was approached. I also readily agreed. Therefore, for this purpose, along with another guarantor and the brother concerned, we travelled to Mathura. 

It was a new experience for me to drive the car the Lord blessed me with, from Gurugram all the way to Mathura and back, picking and dropping our brothers in Delhi. This was an opportune time for a day's blending in the car. Meanwhile, I got to drive on the Jamuna Expressway at 100+ kmph, the permitted speed on this highway.

Yet, to our disappointment, our documents were not accepted by the court staffs with the excuse that our documents were based outside Mathura which needed a lengthy process of verification and that our original vehicle RCs were all smart cards which have no provision for marking as used, unlike the paper RC. After a long and hectic travel, our documents were returned back. It felt like our day was wasted, but the Lord gave us new experiences in standing one with and for the brothers. Though the legal purpose for which we came to Mathura was unfulfilled, the spiritual purpose of fellowshipping and blending with our fellow brothers were fulfilled. Praise the Lord!

Thank the Lord, all things indeed worked together for good.

New Experiences

On the 19th August 2026, as we drove to the airport to drop my wife and daughter for their flight journey to Taipei for our eldest daughter's further studies, as a family we experienced something new, never experienced before. Our three children had a good and sweet time of bonding while being in the car. The usually heavy traffic lengthened the journey of half an hour to more than hour, giving sufficient time for sibling bonding. This was the first time a member of our family is moving forward and be temporarily separated for a new beginning. 

As we dropped off at the airport, everyone of us were in tears. The first time I witnessed my chidren in tears of love. It even affected me for a while. But I could hold it back with a little struggling. By the way, we had sufficient prayers, fellowship, and preparation while on the way.

As my wife and eldest daughter were abroad, a new experience ensued at home. All that my wife used to do at home, now those things have to be done without her. My son and younger daughter were well prepared to fill up the "missing link." My cousins and niece came in to fill the gap too. With this new arrangement came also new learning. Things in the house were all taken care. Now, my chidren became more responsible to sleep on time and wake up on time without their mom's waking them up. And other household chores were responsibly taken care too. We learn to adapt with new environment. Praise the Lord for these new experiences! And our love for one another also grew much more.