Becoming Nothing

For God to fulfill His purpose, the seed and the land typifying the all inclusive Christ as the consummated Spirit mingled and co-working with man, is needed. But for this reality, man must receive much grace from the Lord so that Christ as the seed can be wrought into him and lived out as the land. 

In real life, the fulfillment of this requires much more experiences. We are born as a natural man in sin; he that is born of the flesh is flesh. All that constitutes us is sin. And at best, is the natural man with all its ethic and morality. But the Lord cannot use our un-dealt natural man, however good or spiritual it may be. Therefore, the need for more grace to be dealt with by the Lord to become nothing that God can work Himself into our being.

Becoming nothing is not as simply as it is easier to become something. What we have gained, learned and attained all these years constitutes us as "I, mine, me and myself." Be it societal, political, religious, communal, secular, cultural, economical, academical or professional, everyone has his share of the natural man. And that natural man must be dealt with and reduced to nothing. For God cannot use our natural man to fulfill His purpose. He can use only Christ that is brought forth out of God being wrought into us. Therefore, the need to become nothing by the Lord's mercy is of utmost importance.

This is something easier said than done. Even to me, I need to receive more mercy and grace from the Lord to become nothing. On the one hand, we are becoming God in life and nature but not in the godhead, but on the other side, we must become nothing in our natural man to give room for God to work. It may sound paradoxical, but its indeed true and proven over time. We must become nothing in our natural man to become God in life and in nature but not in the godhead.

This mysterious truth is a hard lesson to take, but the mercy of the Lord is sufficient. I was so touched by this matter this morning. "Becoming Nothing?" Yes, becoming nothing by God's grace for God to work Himself into me and making me become God in life and in nature, but not in the godhead. Only when one becomes nothing, God can work freely and fully to bring forth Christ that will fulfill God's purpose.