Principles of the Lord's Leading

In the principle of incarnation, God carries His works through man; in a sense, God needs man to co-work with Him and man needs God to co-work with him too. So God speaks and burdens man to carry out His heart's desire, but the carrying out of the work is by man. Man only has to realise and join himself to be one with God in His move, and God will grace him to accomplish the calling and the burdens. This is how God works today in the principle of incarnation.

The other side of the coin is the principle of the Body. Yes, man might have definitely received a call and a burden from the Lord, but still it is best to always fellowship with the fellow members in the Body. The Head and the Body are one, and anything genuinely from the Head will always be in oneness with the Body. This is a safety check in serving the Lord and carrying out the Lord's call and burden. For what guarantee is there that the Lord, the Head of the Body, indeed called and burdened a member of the Body without the fellows members' confirmation? Not that God's leading need confirmation, but that man has fallen and there are rooms to be misled and misinterpret spiritual matters. Therefore, the fellowship in the Body is a secure safety measure. Most assuredly, the Head will never say or do a thing without the same Body amening it. Thus, the fellowship in and with the Body in the principle of the Body is a great blessing.

Such has been my experience these days for anything I am doing. I find joy and peace in the Body's fellowship when I brought any matter the Lord has burdened me for fellowship with the Body; be it personal, official or church related matters. My "safe heaven" is in the Body. The Lord anoints the Body and in the Body is the Lord's blessing and presence.

A particular matter related to my personal life, yet official too, in the matter of qualification upgradation in my academic life has been brought into fellowship with some concerned brothers. It was by the same principle of the Body that I did so. The result of the fellowship from the brothers are, "as the Lord leads you". I honor the brothers' word, and they have replied to my fellowship again in the principle of the Body. As the Head leads, the Body follows and echoes the same burden. What a beauty! What a oneness!

It is the mercy of the Lord that I can learn and am learning this precious lesson. Even if I am 100% sure of the Head speaking to me directly, I must be graced to humble myself and fellowship with the Body. What is genuinely of the Head, the Body amens. Even if I am 100% sure, still I am just a member of the Body, much more, still in flesh and blood, I can go wrong, or perhaps, I could misunderstand or misinterpret the Lord's speaking or it could even be that the timing is not yet ripe though the burden from the Lord is clear. So, always be in fellowship with the Body for any matter. I dread those "spiritual giants" who are 100% for Christ and also 100% individualistic in the name of Christ. There is more hope for a "spiritual dwarf" who hide in the Body than self-proclaimed spiritual perfectionist. Thank God, the Lord has delivered me from that path of self. 

May He grace me further never to return to that spiritually individualistic path.

The Lord's leading is always confirmed in the fellowship of the Body. May the Lord, the Head preserve me in His Body.