God-man Living

One of the high peaks of the divine revelations is the God-man living. This is the living of God and man; man in God and God in man, a living of a union, mingling and incorporation of God and man. This is the living again of God on the earth in and through man. This is the life the Lord desires us to live today. In fact, this is the Christian life in a very pure and practical sense. 

This God-man life is not an impossible life. For this life is not lived out by man alone, but by God in man. Having seen this revelation of the God-man living from the actual living of the Lord Jesus as recorded in the four gospels, it may sound like it is impossible. Yes, it is impossible in our natural life. But it is possible by the divine life already imparted into us when we first believed into the Lor Jesus Christ.

Apart from the birth of the Lord Jesus Christ and his visit to the temple in Jerusalem at the age of twelve, the Bible did not record anything about his life for eighteen years from the time he was twelve till He began His ministry at the age of thirty. What had he been doing for the silent period of eighteen years? Perhaps, He simply lived a normal human life carrying out the daily chores of life at His physical home, but nothing spectacular He did, He silently lived out God. This is a wonderful virtue of a God-man life. A life lived out in silence. No pomp and show, no boasting and pride. A life of patience, simply living a normal human life.

Even when He began His ministry at the age of thirty, the first thing He did was, He dealt with His flesh by getting baptized. He openly acknowledged the fact that in His flesh He was good for nothing but death and burial. Only then, did He begin His earthly ministry. His life began with the manager and ended at the cross. The manger is a symbol of lowliness, poverty, and even rejection. His whole life was just this, from the manger to the cross.

As such a pattern, His living was His work, and His work was His ministry. There was no difference between His living and His work and His move. Above all, He as a man of prayer, a man who always lived with the Father, and in oneness with the Father. Such was the pattern of the God-man life. 

The Lord’s life was His work, His move, and His ministry; His work was His living, and His move was His being; with Him there was no difference between His life, His work, His move, and His ministry; the Lord Jesus lived His ministry—cf. Luke 22:26-27; John 10:10b; 1 Cor. 15:45b; 1 John 5:16a; 2 Cor. 3:6; Phil. 1:25. The Lord Jesus was a man of prayer, being one with God, living in the presence of God without ceasing, trusting in God and not in Himself under any kind of suffering and persecution, and being One in whom Satan, the ruler of the world, had nothing (no ground, no hope, no chance, no possibility in anything)— John 10:30; 8:29; 14:30b; 16:32-33; 1 Pet. 2:23. Excerpt from An Overview of the Central Burden and Present Truth of the Lord's Recovery before His Appearing, msg 5.

This is the life we need to live today by taking Him as our life and living Him out day by day. I was so impressed by seeing the vision of the God-ma life. I was not and am not and will not be discouraged even if I fall short of this. Because, this life is His life, not mine. I exercise to be one with Him to live His life out. May the Lord grace me to live such a God-man life.

This message also was the one in which the church in Gurugram was tested during the recent video training. My portion was to speak on the introductory word on the God-man living with all the points mentioned above. Among all the twelve messages during the training, this message touched me the most.

Lord, grace me to live You daily, the God-man life.