The Truth

The Word of God is the truth, the ultimate truth in life fattened with experiences and enjoyment. Truth is not merely a doctrine objectively, but very much confirmed by subjective experiences. Once one is constituted and grounded on the truth, the enemy hardly has any ground for deception. For the knowledge of the truth sets one free from the bondage of religiosity or superstition due to ignorance of the truth. As the Lord said, 'You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free." What a freedom indeed is in the knowledge and experience of the truth! If it had not been for this, I myself would have fallen into the condemnation of Satan and my own self. The truth rescues me. Halleluiah!

Experiences may fluctuate, feelings may change, circumstances may whirl up and down, but the truth remains the truth, ever steadfast and ever it will be. This weeks' experiences could have succumbed me into introspection of the self, however, the truth stands a strong pillar to lift me up and encouraged me to go in the path of life. O what a blessing! This truth is a Person, Christ Himself living in and through me. The path I tread may not be a bed of roses, but the truth I live and abide by surely is my rod and staff in the valley of the shadow of death.

Church Life

Church life is not merely a meeting, much more it is a fellowship in spirit as the issue of the living in the mingled spirit day by day and the outflow of this living by flowing out the divine life of the Father in love to one another for the building up of the Body of Christ.

This week the Lord convicted me of putting my personal needs before His own. I had cancelled a group meeting because of a personal affair, without much consideration. The result, no peace. Immediately, I rescheduled the meeting for another day, which turned out to be a very enjoyable one. The new ones, though from a very staunch atheistic philosophical background, they hungered for the milk of the Word. What a joy to feed, and be fed by feeding the Word of God!

The Lord also exposed me of my lack for genuine love and care for the saints. The nourishing in divinity with the high peak truth that I have been doing is very good, but better would be to balance with the cherishing care in humanity. Saints are human beings with human feelings. They need tender care and love. Though I cannot solve any of their problems, at least I can care for them and do my best to help in whatever way possible with discernment.

As member of the Body even my personal experience of the Lord should be attuned with, to and for the Body. Its easy to be individualistically spiritually, even experiencing the Lord in many aspects, day by day , moment by moment. However, this can all be aloof from the Body. If so, it easily leads to selfishness and pride. Even the devil can make use of our spirituality to meet his own need. After all, true and genuine spirituality is only in the Body and is for the building up of the Body. I thanked the Lord, He balanced me in the Body through the brothers' fellowship.

Praise the Lord for a wondrous week again.

A New Beginning

Praise be to the Lord Jesus Christ!A wonderful new beginning by abiding in the Vine. Yes, as a branch to draw life juice from the Vine, and grow and spread and climb over any obstacle that may come my way.

I personally experienced and enjoyed the living Christ as I prayed through the night of the transition of the year. New light dawned into many avenues of my inward being. New direction for my living and service. New clarity in matters beyond explanation. And renewed consecration of my life to the Lord. Amen, altogether a new beginning.

This new week began with a re-reading and re-studying of the Bible with intense care, digging into the verses as deep as I could go, and musing upon the divine word enriched with revelations and visions according to God's eternal economy. And this being complemented by the timely holy word for morning revival on "Eating the Lord as the Tree of Life and Living on the Line of Life." What a blessed beginning in newness!

Specifically, the Lord touched me on the matter of eating as portrayed in the book of Leviticus 11 concerning the clean animals and the unclean. My contacting people is also a matter of eating. What I eat determines what I am.

Negatively, unclean animals are those people not on the line of life, however good or ethical they may sound to be. They just spread death and darkness. Some of them may be legally right but all in darkness. Neither should I contact such in any form or media nor should I spread the same. This is a warning to all, including me. Not to contact any "unclean animals", nor be such.

Lord, have mercy on me and the saints in the church that we may eat the tree of life daily and only. Lord, preserve us from the "unclean animals" for your corporate expression as the golden Lampstand where we are.