Divine Realm

Since the Lord's mercy led me to the church-life, I have been hearing the phrase, "divine realm" time and again. But little did I realise its true worth. This phrase is so familiar to me that it almost lost its true depth to me. Nevertheless, thank the Lord, the fact was made known to me, at least I am not kept in the dark as far as the truth of the Bible and the divine revelation is concerned.

Of late, the Lord deeply touched me of this matter. The "Divine Realm" is a realm in which a Christian must live and have his being in it. But in my real-life experience I have a very little, in fact, too little experience of the being in the divine realm.

As the majority of the believers do, in longing to live an overcoming life, all this while there has been a struggle to attain to such a living as one would call "spiritual" or "overcoming." But little do I realise the core of the matter. It is not a matter of struggling nor or any human or supernatural effort that can make one overcoming. If the fact is the involvement of one's effort, truly it is not in the divine realm. For a divine realm does not demand anything natural. Once one is in the divine realm, the act to struggle cease, there will be no need to coerce to do anything good or bad. For the divine realm is fully divine in nature and essence, truly of God, in God, through God and unto God.

This simple exercise of the human spirit indwelt by the Spirit of God in the believers is the key to enter and live in the divine realm. Though I know this key too well doctrinally, immature as I am, I lack the experience of living and walking in the divine realm all the time. This is possible when one is living and walking in the Spirit.

I have been struggling too in my own affairs of life. Though doctrinally I know I should not, but I need the grace not to struggle but simply be in and live in the divine realm. O how much I need the grace of the Lord and the life supply from the Lord moment by moment to live such a life in the divine realm. This is my heart's longing. Not that I have never been, but that how consistently I am in the divine realm. And encouragingly enough, I discovered that the possibility of living in the divine realm is much much more in the Body life, in the church-life with the other members of the Body than being just in one self, individualistically. A decade ago, I was a spiritual giant in myself, but now the Lord blends me in the Body life to live in the divine realm.

One fine morning, the Lord spoke to me that all that I need is just to be in the divine realm. My Lord knows what life I have been going through and His sweet encouraging word is that I must live in the divine realm. When the Lord spoke to me this phrase, I woke up and this phrase has ever been reverberating into my being over and over again. O "the divine realm!"