God desires that we would be recovered back to living under His direct rule in life

When God created man, Adam lived directly under the rule of God exercising mainly the intuition and the fellowship functions of the spirit. Man was a living soul with the spirit as an organ, and the conscience was not activated yet in a negative way because there was no sin. In simplicity, man only knew God and was under the direct rule of God through the fellowship and intuition of the spirit.

man’s fall and God’s recovery

When man fell, the conscience was activated to represent God and to enable man to rule himself. There was no human government – there was a time when the human beings were supposed to rule themselves according to their conscience (man was to be moral, ethical, treat one another humanly, etc). But violence filled the earth and only a few were righteous before God. After the flood, in order for God to maintain some peace among man for the accomplishing of His purpose, God established the human government – man ruling over other men. Even this matter has degraded and was spoiled in such a way that man has no more respect for the law or for authority today.

In the Lord’s recovery of us, through the divine life saving us and reigning in us, we must retrace these steps. Yes, we need to be right with human government and respect it, but in the way of life after we deal with the past, after we consecrate ourselves, after we deal with the sin – we deal with our conscience, which is a necessary and crucial step. We are recovered to self-rule, we rule ourselves, we confess our sins to the Lord, we make things right according to the sense in our conscience. This is a life-long exercise even as Paul testified (a good conscience before God and man).

being brought back under the direct rule of God

If we stop here, we will not be real God-men but ethical, moral, even religious, pious or “spiritual” persons, those who deal with their conscience all the time. History shows that you can be one who deals with his conscience, yet still rise up in rebellion against the Lord and what He is doing today! The kind of man God wants – He wants a man directly under His rule in life! Yes, the conscience is keen and sensitive, but it affirms the fact that we live directly under God’s presence through our fellowship and intuition, and we are under the reigning of His life!

This is why daily we need to enthrone the Lord in our being and seek to be organically one with Him by calling on His name, praying over His Word, and allowing the divine life in us to rule and reign in us. We need to really be in the kingdom and live the kingdom life with all of its delight, pleasantness, righteousness, peace, and joy – and this is not a mere behavior but having the Lord enthroned in our heart! It is not our opinion or spiritual knowledge that rules but Christ rules in us in the way of life, and we are under the rule of the divine life.

being under the rule of the divine life

In us who are in the kingdom of God as a realm of life, the divine life should be able to move into our mind, our thinking, our imagination, our memory, our reasoning, our thoughts, our emotions (what is stored, buried, accumulated there? What anger, what feelings, what pains are suppressed there?). The river of water of life needs to go into every part so that it will bring life to our soul, until every part of our inner being would be alive with this river. And then life will rule, govern, and reign in us, so that the divine life may accomplish its purpose! This realm of life is the kingdom.

[sharing inspired from message 6 given in the recent ITERO by brother Ron, as quoted partially in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, The Four Great Pillars in the Lord's Recovery. You can purchase the morning revival book online, follow the articles on The Four Great Pillars on this blog and become a fan on Facebook for more updates.]

O, Lord, fully recover us to living under the rule of the divine life. Save us from merely dealing with our conscience and being right with God and right with man. Lord, may the divine life spread in every part of our inner being, filling every part with life. O, Lord, life our mind, emotion, and will! We enthrone You in our being, Lord, in every little thing. Recover us fully to living in our spirit according to the fellowship and the intuition, under Your direct rule.