God of Measure Dispensing Zoe-Life

But we will not boast beyond our measure but according to the measure of the rule which the God of measure has apportioned to us, to reach even as far as you.

For we are not extending ourselves beyond our bounds, as if we did not reach you, for we were the first to come even as far as unto you in the gospel of Christ.

We are not boasting beyond our measure in others’ labors, but have the hope, as your faith is increasing, to be magnified in you according to our rule unto abundance,

2 Corinthians 10:13-15, RecVer

God is a God of measure. Knowing this truth is a great salvation. As I was listening to the message on the apostle Paul's testimony of not boasting beyond his measure God had apportioned to him, my whole being trembled in fear in a positive way, to be faithful within His measure and was being warned not to go beyond my measure. Having known this truth, I should not underfunction nor overfunction. But be faithful within the limit of God's measure.

This revelation is a great relief not to be ambitious of what the Lord has not apportioned to me but be faithful to whatever the God of measure has alloted to me. Such realisation is a great salvation and preserves the oneness in the Body of Christ. 

Though we have the burden to do as much as possible for the Lord, we can only do so within His measure. He limits us through the environment which we accept willingly, though difficult at times, and we also sense His inner peace to be or not to be. Inward and outward, we submit to His sovereignty and amen all that He restricts in His will and way. What a relief to learn to live and serve within the measure of the God of measure!

Zoe-ology

The thief does not come except to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life and may have it abundantly.

John 10:10, RecVer

Jesus said to him, I am the way and the reality and the life; no one comes to the Father except through Me.

John 14:6, RecVer

So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul”; the last Adam became a life-giving Spirit.

1 Corinthians 15:45, RecVer

For the law of the Spirit of life has freed me in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and of death.

Romans 8:2, RecVer

For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the spirit is life and peace.

Romans 8:6, RecVer

But if Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, the spirit is life because of righteousness. And if the Spirit of the One who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who indwells you.

Romans 8:10-11, RecVer

The God of measure is the God who gives life, Zoe, the divine and eternal life. He dispenses His very life to His chosen and redeemed people first into the spirit, then into the soul, and finally into the body, making the entire tripartite being of man, a man of life. For this, God dispensing has been going on since regeneration. No matter what the environment may be, He always find ways to dispense His Zoe life i to His chidren. The goal of Zoe dispensing is to gain the one new man, the built up Body of Christ, that consummates the New Jerusalem!

Lord, grace us to live and serve within Your measure and receive Your divine dispensing day by day, moment by moment, all the days of life, as men of life, fulfilling Your eternal economy.