God drew us with cords of a man and with bands of love by firstly becoming a man in His incarnation, by living a perfect human on earth, by dying an all-inclusive all-terminating death on the cross, by entering into a life-imparting resurrection, and by being in an all-transcending ascension. Through all these segments of […]
being drawn with cords of a man and bands of love to be in the divine romance
September 4, 2012 by 1 Comment
There is a very precious portion of a verse 4 in Hosea 11 which says, “I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love”. Even though we are evil, unchaste, unfaithful, and in apostasy, God drew us with cords of man and with bands of love. He loves us with His divine […]
seeing Christ as the Only Begotten Son becoming the Firstborn Son of God!
September 3, 2012 by 1 Comment
“Hallelujah, we are happy Christians because in the Lord’s recovery we are being brought again and again to Christ!” (brother Dick Taylor). This week we come to Hosea 11:1 and 4 – two verses for a whole week, speaking of, Three Implications concerning Christ. The first implication is in verse 1, When Israel was a […]
we have an organic union with our evergreen, fresh, and forever new God!
August 31, 2012 by 7 Comments
The genuine believers in Christ do not live for themselves, trying their best to better themselves to become good people to be appreciated by others. Rather, the genuine believers produce satisfying fruit and cheering drink for others to be happy and to enjoy the Lord. There’s an overflow of the divine life which they daily […]
women in the Old Testament typifying the church as Christ’s counterpart
August 24, 2012 by 2 Comments
In our love relationship with the Lord we are the wife, the female, and He is the Husband, the male. In the Old Testament there are several women that can be considered as a type of the church due to their marriage to certain men who were types of Christ. Paul himself expounded on people […]
the Bible is a romance: God really loves us and He is continually courting us
August 22, 2012 by 6 Comments
The entire Bible is a divine romance, showing us that throughout the centuries God loved man and had a romance with man. From Genesis to Revelation we see a love story of how God courts His chosen people and eventually marries them! In the Old Testament the people of Israel were not only the people […]
Christ needs to become the centrality and universality of our life and work
August 21, 2012 by 3 Comments
Christ is the centrality (the center) and the universality (the circumference) in God’s economy. We may understand this, like this, and even say this, but has this become a vision to us that affects our being to the extent that to us, in our experience, Christ is our center and our everything? We need to […]
