As Noah walked with God, God showed him the true situation of the corrupt age in which he lived, and Noah found grace in the sight of Jehovah; we need to come to the throne of grace and find grace in the eyes of God, for grace is the presence of God enjoyed by us to do everything for us, and we enjoy this presence by loving the Lord.
Lord Jesus, we want to be those who walk with God today. Unveil us to see the true situation of the corrupt age in which we live. Oh Lord, we come to You today. We want to find grace in the eyes of God. We come forward to the throne of grace. Dispense Yourself into us as grace and meet our timely need. Oh Lord, keep us enjoying You and be everything to us. We are nothing without Your grace. Your grace is everything to us. Hallelujah, the grace of the Lord Jesus is with our spirit! Amen!
It is amazing to see how Noah not only inherited the godly ways of his forefathers, but even more, as he walked with God, God showed him the true situation of the corrupt age in which he lived (Gen. 6:3, 5, 11, 13; Matt. 24:37-39; 2 Tim. 3:1-5).
When he saw the situation, when he realised that God wanted to destroy that generation by a flood, Noah worked with God for many years to build the ark according to God’s instructions.
We may ask ourselves what does this has to do with us; if we read the Lord’s word in Matthew 24 we realise that today we live in the days of Noah.
The days of the coming of the Son of Man, the days of the Lord’s return, will be as in the days of Noah.
If we walk with God today, we will realise what is the true situation of the corrupt age in which we live. Just as the days of Noah were, so will the coming of the Son of Man be.
For as they were in those days before the flood, eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day in which Noah entered into the ark.
Today the condition of this generation is exactly the same. If we walk with God, He will show us what is the true condition of the people today.
Especially after the pandemic, many of the young people live indulging in the pleasures of this world. They just want to indulge themselves in the pleasures and entertainment in this world; they want to enjoy pleasure, and they pay a lot of money and spend much energy for this.
Just as in the days of Noah, people today want to enjoy the pleasures of life, being unconscious of the fact that judgment is coming. Oh Lord! May we be like Noah today, those who find grace in the eyes of the Lord!
Find Grace in the Eyes of God by Coming to the Throne of Grace to enjoy the Presence of God and let Him do Everything in us
Against the dark background of the situation in his generation, Noah found favour in the sight of Jehovah (Gen. 6:8).
When Satan had done his best to damage the situation, there have always been some who found grace in the eyes of God to become ones who turned the age (see Dan. 1:8; 9:23; 10:11, 19).
If we read the book of Genesis, we will realise that the main purpose of the record in this book is not to show the fall but to show how much God’s grace can do for fallen people.
Man fell to the uttermost, to such an extent that God repented for making man and wanted to blot man out from the face of the earth. But against such a background, Noah found grace in the eyes of God.
We tend to look at the situation today, the corrupt and evil situation, but God wants to gain some who find grace in His eyes. His grace can do everything in man and for man.
If we look at ourselves, we may feel we are a failure, we are weak, even that we’re hopeless; but we can find grace in the eyes of God.
When we find grace in the Lord’s eyes, we will see how much grace can do, what grace can do, and how grace can do everything in us for the fulfilment of God’s purpose.
What we need to do is come forward with boldness to the throne of grace (Heb. 4:16).
Grace is with our spirit; our flesh is hopeless, but grace is with our spirit. On His side, God is always willing, ready to give Himself as grace to us and operate in us as grace, but He needs our cooperation. He needs us to turn to Him.
We shouldn’t look at or dwell in our failures, our degradation, or the outward environment but simply turn to our spirit.
May we daily learn to come forward with boldness to the throne of grace so that we may receive mercy and find grace for timely help.
It is by coming forward to the throne of grace that we can find grace in the Lord’s eyes and turn the age. Every day we need to tell the Lord,
Lord Jesus, I’m coming to the throne of grace. I need grace. Lord, You know my need. I need Your grace every minute. Without Your grace, I cannot do anything. Without Your grace, I cannot bear anything. I need Your grace to do everything and bear everything in me!
We need to open to the Lord in this way all throughout the day. We come to the throne of grace by exercising our spirit to contact the Lord, converse with Him, open to Him, and fellowship with Him. We may even tell Him,
Lord Jesus, I need Your grace right now! Thank You for being gracious and ready to give me grace. I come to You to touch You: give me grace! Be grace in me. I kneel before the throne of grace to find grace to meet my need! Amen, Lord, thank You for being grace with my spirit! Be everything to me and in me today! Bear everything in me and do everything in me today! Amen!
As we live our Christian life, as we live in this world, many times we feel that we can’t stand our situation, we can’t face certain people, and we cannot bear with those around us.
We need to realise that, when we can’t do it, be it, and make it, there is a place we can go: we can go to the throne of grace in our spirit.
We can come forward with boldness to the throne of grace to receive mercy and find grace for timely help.
This grace is not just something that God gives to us or does to us; grace is God Himself as our enjoyment and our everything, even God Himself doing things for us and in us. Grace is God Himself coming to us and doing things for us.
When we feel that we are weak, when we are discouraged, and when we think we can’t bear this anymore, we can come to the Lord and let Him be our strength, our encouragement, and our burden-bearer.
When we are not able to face our situation, we can come to the throne of grace to receive grace, and the Lord’s presence enjoyed by us is the grace that will enable us to face the situation.
Grace is God Himself, the very presence of God, enjoyed by us to be everything to us and do everything in us, through us, and for us (John 1:14, 16-17; Rev. 22:21).
When we touch the Lord in spirit, we enjoy His presence, and we live in His presence; He Himself is our grace. Grace is the eternal word of God becoming flesh, full of grace and reality, to be everything to us, even to give us grace after grace.
Many times we feel it is impossible to be a Christian; at such times, we can simply turn to our spirit to come to the throne of grace and receive Him as grace.
The entire Bible finishes with, The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all the saints. What brings us through, what consummates everything, and what makes us go all the way to the end is the grace of the Lord Jesus with our spirit.
Only the grace of the Lord Jesus can enable us to live and walk according to the visions and the prophecies we see in the book of Revelation.
This grace enables us to experience the all-inclusive Christ, to participate in the enjoyment of the Triune God, so that we may become His eternal corporate expression for the fulfilment of His eternal purpose.
May we come forward to the throne of grace today!
Lord Jesus, we want to find grace in the eyes of God today! Oh Lord, even in this lawless age, this wicked and perverted generation, we come to You to find grace in Your eyes. Be grace to us. Give us the grace we need to live the Christian life. We need You as grace. We are nothing without Your grace. Lord Jesus, only Your grace can enable us to live and walk according to the visions and prophecies we see in the Bible! Only Your grace enables us to experience the all-inclusive Christ to become part of His eternal corporate expression! We exercise our spirit and come forward to the throne of grace. We are so weak, Lord, but You are grace to us to be our strength. We are not able to face the situation, but Your grace is sufficient for us. Oh Lord Jesus, in the midst of this crooked, perverted, and adulterous generation, only Your grace can make us stand! We can’t bear anything, we can’t do anything, and we can’t be what You want us to be; we come to the throne of grace to receive mercy and find grace for timely help! May Your grace be everything to us, do everything in us, and bear everything for us!
Exercise our Spirit and Love the Lord to Enjoy the Lord as Grace with our Spirit
Many times in our Christian life we feel that there are some hindrances, like a big boulder in the flow of the river, and we can’t seem to get through or go around them.
We may ask the Lord to remove these hindrances, but the Lord only tells us what He told Paul, My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in your weakness (2 Cor. 12:9).
The Lord does not remove the problems or hindrances, but He gives us more grace. He wants us to enjoy Him as grace until we break through and get over any problems and hindrances.
How can we enjoy the Lord as grace? We can enjoy the Lord as grace by loving Him (Eph. 6:24; John 21:15-17). Grace is with all those who love our Lord Jesus in incorruptibility.
We can experience Christ and become the Body of Christ, the bride of Christ, the new man, and the corporate warrior as revealed in Ephesians by loving the Lord so that we may have Him as grace.
As we love the Lord in incorruptibility, we have Him as grace with us, and His grace can and will do everything in us and for us. In our Christian life there are two important things: faith and love. Faith is to receive God and love is to enjoy God.
Many times we receive food into us, but we may not enjoy it. Many times we receive God, but we may not enjoy Him.
But when we love the Lord, when we turn our heart to Him and just love Him, we enjoy Him and we also receive Him. To receive the Lord as grace, we need to love Him.
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ as the bountiful supply of the Triune God is enjoyed by us through the exercise of our human spirit (Heb. 10:29b; Gal. 6:18; Phil. 4:23; Philem. 25; 2 Tim. 4:22).
He is the Spirit of grace with our spirit. The grace of the Lord Jesus is with our spirit. The best way for us to enjoy the Lord as grace is to exercise our spirit and touch Him in spirit.
The Triune God became flesh, went through death and resurrection, and became the Spirit, and in Hebrews 10:29 this Spirit is called the Spirit of grace.
The Spirit of grace is in our spirit, mingled with our spirit as one spirit. How can we enjoy grace? We need to exercise our spirit. The throne of grace is in our spirit.
Yes, the throne of God and of the Lamb is in the heavens, even in the third heaven; but the practical throne of grace is in our spirit.
The throne of God in heaven is connected to our spirit by means of Christ as the heavenly ladder, and when we turn to our spirit, we touch the throne of grace. Grace is with our spirit.
The apostle Paul closed many of his epistles by saying, The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.
This is not just a favourite quote or verse of his; this is how the economy of God is carried out in us and this is how we cooperate with the Lord today.
If we look at the situation in society today, if you just look at the news or open your phone to look at something, the world with its flood of dissoluteness and wickedness is everywhere, even “in your face.”
You cannot even do your shopping without being under the constant bombardment of advertising, temptations, and crooked things.
People speak of immorality without any bit of shame, and this whole generation is wicked.
Who can stand in this situation? Who can face the things in this generation? Who finds grace in the eyes of the Lord today? Who exercises his spirit to touch the throne of grace? Who loves the Lord in incorruptibility?
May we be like Noah today, those who find grace in the eyes of the Lord by exercising our spirit and loving the Lord in incorruptibility.
Lord Jesus, we love You! We love You in incorruptibility. Thank You for being grace with our spirit. Give us more grace. Grant us more of Yourself as grace. Oh Lord, we cannot do it, we cannot be it, and we cannot bear it, but Your grace in us can do it, be it, and bear it. We give ourselves to just love You. You see the situations we face. You see the difficulties in our environment and the problems in our own being. We come to You to just love You. We exercise our spirit to contact You. Hallelujah, the throne of grace is in our spirit, for the Lord as grace is with our spirit! We love You, Lord, and we need You! We come to You not to ask You to give us good things but to find grace to meet our need! We cannot live the Christian life without You as grace. Amen, Lord, stand with us today. Come to be our strength. We depend on You as grace. Uphold us and sustain us as grace. Your grace is everything to us and in us! Hallelujah, the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ is with our spirit! Amen!
References and Hymns on this Topic
- Inspiration for this article/sharing comes from the Word of God, the enjoyment in the ministry, a sharing by the brothers on this topic, and portions from, Life-study of Genesis, msg. 28, by Witness Lee, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Noah, Daniel, and Job – Patterns of Living an Overcoming Life on the Line of Life to Fulfill the Economy of God (2026 International Chinese-Speaking Conference), week 2, The Line of Life with Noah— the Life and Work That Change the Age – day 3.
- Hymns on this topic:
– Pray to touch the throne of God, / Deeply sense thy need of grace; / In the spirit stay with God, / Fellowshipping face to face. / Pray to touch the throne of God, / Learning all the wealth of grace; / Ever take and ever taste, / Giving God the thanks and praise. (Hymns #783 stanzas 2-3)
– In the holiest place, touch the throne of grace, / Grace as a river shall flow; / In the holiest place, touch the throne of grace, / Grace as a river shall flow. / Hallelujah! Hallelujah! / Grace as a river shall flow; / Hallelujah! Hallelujah! / Grace as a river shall flow. (Hymns #770 stanza 1 and chorus)
– It is this grace—Christ as our inward strength— / Which with His all-sufficiency doth fill; / It is this grace which in our spirit is, / There energizing, working out God’s will. / This grace, which is the living Christ Himself, / Is what we need and must experience; / Lord, may we know this grace and by it live, / Thyself increasingly as grace to sense. (Hymns #497 stanzas 4-5)
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