We don’t really know what is in us until the light shines and exposes us. The Lord sovereignly arranges people and situations around us to help us grow in life, and one major part of our growth comes from the shining of the light! He shines on us in the Word, He shines on us […]
we are daily learning to stop ourselves by waiting on the Lord and taking Him as our life and person
In the Old Testament there was a good king among the kings of Judah – king Hezekiah. When he started reigning, he put away all the idols, broke down their altars, purified the people, re-instituted the Passover, and brought the people of Judah and of Israel back to God, back to the worship of God. […]
The Key to Experiencing Christ is our mingled spirit, and the best way to enjoy Him is to call on His name
How can we experience Christ? How can we contact God? God today is not only in the heavens, sitting on the throne, and He is not just ruling and reigning over everything – He is now as personal to us as being in our mingled spirit! When we received the Lord Jesus into us by […]
Christ as a man is our king, our refuge, our covering, our streams of water, and our real air conditioning!
Just like the song says, “Be specific for reality / And be done with generality / if we’ll just apply Him, we will see / He’s everything to us” – Christ in Isaiah is so much, but we can experience Him so specifically for our present situation, our specific need! He’s our drink, He is […]
Christ as the Stone-Savior is also the cornerstone to join us and build us up together in God’s building
The stone that the builders rejected – Christ – has become the head of the corner (Psa. 118:22): Christ as the stone rejected and despised by the Jewish builders/people has become the cornerstone to join together the Jews and the Gentiles into one Body, the Body of Christ! Actually, the “head of the corner” can […]
in nothing I will be put to shame, but in all things Christ will be magnified in my body!
This is what Paul says in Philippians 1:20, According to my earnest expectation and hope that in nothing I will be put to shame, but with all boldness, as always, even now Christ will be magnified in my body, whether through life or through death. This morning we were also enjoying two verses in Isaiah […]
Christ as our replacement is a peg driven into a sure place, a throne of glory, and the One on whom all the vessels hang
As we saw in the previous portion, Christ as the all-inclusive replacement of everything else in God’s economy with Himself is represented by David – Christ is the real David, since He is the One who builds the house of God and the kingdom of God. As the greater David, Christ has built up the […]