A Dream: With Brother Witness Lee

It was the 8th of November 2015, I just enjoyed the Lord's speaking in a Serving Ones Training on "The Crucial Points on the Major Items of the Lord's Recovery Today".  It my wonderful sleep of the night I had a dream, though I usually don't have dreams, and hardly paid any attention to whatever dreams it may be. But this one is special. The dream was:

In a meeting of some sort and during a feasting time, as I was eating from my own plate standing, I saw brother Witness Lee standing and holding a plate of food not far away from me. As I looked at him he called me to him. I walked toward him, and when I was near him, standing beside, he shared to me the portion of food from his plate. Then I ate the food shared to me along with the food already on my plate. Then I woke up.

There may be a couple of ways of interpreting dreams with twists and turns, but what impress me is the fact that I could at least see him in my dream. Though I never thought about him, but the ministry of the word the Lord gave to me through him is so rich, it changes me.

Fourteen years ago when I heard about the name "Witness Lee" for the first time, it never made any impression on me. Much less, when I heard a negative rumor about him, accusing him of being "heretic or even cultic?" I was poisoned to be cautious; all in ignorance and blindness. Nevertheless, when I visited the Gospel Book Room in Chennai through one brother's introduction I purchased all the Indian print books available then, both of Watchman Nee and Witness Lee. I just kept the book in my bookshelves with out reading them at all, but was reading all kinds of Christian writings from biographies to teachings on various Biblical topics.

One night I could not sleep. And as I was browsing through the stack of books on my shelves to find something to read to pass time and at least to induce me to sleep, I randomly picked a book "The All-Inclusive Christ" by Witness Lee and randomly flip-opened to page 43, The Valleys and the Hills under chapter four, The Goodness of the Land-Its Unsearchable Riches. I read through the subsection and was amazed at the explanation which my spirit confirmed to be true in my own experiences of Christ, as I had been going through the valley and then being led in resurrection! Then I thought to myself, why I did not read this book before? The next day in a train on my way to my final year Master's degree Computer project, I read through the whole book. Quite contrary to the evil speaking of rumors, my first experience of brother Witness Lee's speaking was an experience of a "valleys and hills." No Christian author had such a spiritual impact on me at the first random reading, though I had read many Christian books by then.

Later, "Christ versus Religion" again by Witness Lee helped me a lot to see myself being superstitiously religious in my Christian life and was delivered from many religious thoughts, beliefs and duties which were blinding me from Christ and the church. Again another book, "The Vision of the Age" clarified the work of God in this age and how the Lord needs me to be in His divine will of building up the Body of Christ. This brought me to an understanding that if I am a Christian I must be in God's perfect will of fulfilling His perfect will of building up His Body. And Later, "A Genuine Ground of Oneness" made me see through the Word in the light of the Holy Spirit the oneness the Lord prayed for in John 17, and His aspiration expressed in the Old Testament, and this genuine ground of oneness is in the Triune God only, and as Christians we must be in God, standing on the ground of oneness in Spirit and on the ground of locality in a local church, which led me fully out of the human made system of denomination and be recovered into a normal practice of the church-life. These are just brief experiences of Christ through the help of the Lord's servant and minister of the word. Word does not suffice to write many more similar experiences. 

I have never met brother Witness Lee face to face, I only see him ministering the word recorded on video tapes. But I thank the Lord that such a brother existed. Though he went to be with the Lord in the same year I came into the Lord(meaning the year I was saved, 1997), my Christian life have been so much blessed by the help he rendered in his ministry of the word, of which today I am a serving one in the same ministry, by the Lord's sovereignty. Praise the Lord!

A dream, indeed, of eating food from the same plate as he did. Eating Christ through the ministry the ministry of the word.