To Do, and Not to Do

A light dawned on me this morning as I, with the serving ones in our office, delved into the Life-Study of Genesis on the the maturity and reigning aspect of Joseph's life. Joseph, as the issue of his maturity in the divine life truly lived a life under the restriction and sovereignty of God. He learnt well to do what he could not do and not to do what he could do. His feelings for his brethren and even his own father was under strict control; he was not ruled or overcome by his emotion. He was not overjoyed at joyful moments nor depressed at desperately despair moment. He was just fine, fair and balanced as a type of Christ. And was full of patient to wait for the Lord's perfect timing to reveal himself in due time to his family. And his procrastinated revelation was a discipline and lesson of life to his naive, fleshy and fleshly brothers.

To bear the cross is to experience the divine restriction sovereignly arranged by God, and not doing anything what one is able to do in the natural man. This is to experience crucifixion. To be in resurrection is to enjoy the divine anointing and inward strength with the outward ability to do things which one is not able to do, or is impossible, in the natural man. And only Christ is the reality of both crucifixion and resurrection.

Only in the subjective experience of proper growth in the divine life unto maturity can one be such a person; having the power not to do what one is able to do, and having the strength to do what one is not able to do. 

Lord, grow in me that I may mature in Your life to be such a one. 

To do, yea, what is impossible to be done, in myself, but in your strength; 

And not to do, even what I am very able to do, because of the divine restriction. 

Grace me Lord, I pray....