The Humanity of Jesus

Ephesians 4:1-2 RecVer

1. I beseech you therefore, I, the prisoner in the Lord, to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,

2. With all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, bearing one another in love.

God's heart's desire is to build up the Body of Christ. For this, He need materials for His building. The materials are the regenerated and transformed believers. There are many regenerated believers indeed, but how many of these ones have cooperated with God to deny their soul life, take up the cross, and follow the Lord? This refers to the need for a proper humanity, the humanity of Jesus gained through years of experiences of the Lord, and thus been transformed.

All these years of my life, I have realised that one of the biggest hindrances in a believers life is the lack of proper humanity. Put it other way, the person or the being of the ones concerned is what matters most. Because of lack of proper humanity, many saints are not growing. Instead, they become problematic and causes trouble in their own personal life, marriage life, work life, and even in many cases, the church life too. I have been observing this scenario in the lives of some brothers known to me. Even to some of these ones, I dare not stretch my hand to do any thing, for I know I don't have the maturity or the anointing to do so. The only thing I can do for such ones is, to pray for them that Lord may have mercy on them that they may realise their wickedness, repent, and cooperate with the Holy Spirit's transforming work in their lives.

These days, as we are in a full-timers training in Hyderabad, the Lord’s speaking has also been on this line; the need for a proper humanity. For the building up of the Body of Christ, the first requirement is the humanity of Jesus. If the believers are not transformed and their humanity is not the humanity of Jesus, they are not qualified to build the Body. The way, therefore, is to see that one's humanity is worthless, than abhor it, open to the Lord to receive the Lord’s divine dispensing with His divine life and nature, eat the humanity of Jesus by eating Jesus through the word day by day, and through the discipline of the Holy Spirit making all the words real to the believers. In this way, the humanity of Jesus will be wrought in the believers, who then, will live out Jesus' humanity as in Ephesians 4: 2 and 3.

Ephesians 4:2-3 RecVer

2. With all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, bearing one another in love,

3. Being diligent to keep the oneness of the Spirit in the uniting bond of peace.

Job of the Old Testament is a good example of a natural man dealt with by God through outward circumstances and consumeed in his natural goodness. Then, Gid further dealt with him to open his eyes to see God, in addition to all the hearings of God. 

Likewise, today, we all need the stripping and consuming of our natural man, and then the filling of the divine life with the divine nature to be reconstituted with God like an Acacia wood overlaid with gold. Only this transformed humanity can be used for the building up of the Body of Christ. 

May the Lord grant us all the proper humanity to serve Him in the way He wants us to serve Him.