Fourth Day Lights

These days, we have started pursuing the Life-study of Genesis again as the entire church. I also participated in it again though I already completed the entire Life-studies recently. The word of God can be pursued over and over again. Every time I read and pursued the Life-studies, the word is fresh and new. One point of truth that impacted my life these days is the fourth-day lights.

On the fourth day, God created the sun, the moon, and the stars. These are the greater light and very specific for growth in life. The light God created on the first day was generic, it generated life generally but not for growth. But the fourth-day light enabled life to grow from stage to stage, from the grass, herb, and tree to the aquatic animals, birds of the air, and cattle in the field. The fourth-day lights spiritually are the Christ as the sun, the church as the moon, and the overcoming saints as the stars. 

Experientially, I need Christ as my sun, the church as my moon, and the overcoming saints as my shining stars. During this dark age, until the Lord returns, it is the moon that gives out light in the night. Though the moon itself has no light of its own, it receives its light from Christ, the sun. Therefore, it is imperative for me to be in the church to receive light for my life, for my service, and for my going on. This very point of truth I am experiencing these days.

In all my official activities, I had a good fellowship with all my coordinating brothers and only then execute what need to be executed. My thoughts about how to do things were all adjusted by the fellowship with the brothers. I have been learning to live in coordination with my fellow members of the Body. Likewise, in all my church activities too, whatever the brothers fellowshipped, I took the responsibility to carry out the matters of fellowship. Be it in deciding how to take care of the needy saints and their relatives affected by the ongoing riots in Manipur or in taking precautionary measures in shepherding the saints, I experience being in the church life(moon) and living and walking by the moonlight. This kind of church life is very healthy and I have been grace to partake in it. In addition, the fourth-day lights, by their great shining not only dispels the darkness but also shine to make the saints overcomers. 

This experience of the fourth-day lights confirms my need for the church life and my need for the brothers. I simply cannot live my Christian life without my brothers in the church. Praise the Lord for the revelation and experience of the fourth-day lights!