Christ is Intimately Involved with Human History, and His Second Coming is Victorious

And Jehovah will be King over all the earth; and in that day Jehovah will be the one God and His name the one name. Zech. 14:9

Zechariah 12-14 speaks of Christ's victorious second coming, which will be with power and authority; as the centrality and universality of God's economy, Christ is intimately involved with human history. This is why we need to read the Bible and … [Continue reading]

Christ’s Lowly First Coming was Humble and Intimate, full of Love, for our Redemption

In that day there will be an opened fountain...for sin and for impurity. Zech. 13:1

The book of Zechariah reveals that the crucial point and major content of God's move in man's history are the two comings of Christ for the testimony of Jesus, the building of God; Zech. 9-11 speaks of Christ's lowly first coming, which was both … [Continue reading]

God’s Move in Man’s History prepares the way for Him to Carry out His Economy in Humanity

I drew them with cords of a man, / With bands of love... Hosea 11:4

The intrinsic significance of the twelve historical books in the Old Testament is the revelation that God's move in man's history prepares the way for God to carry out His eternal economy by His becoming a man that man may become God in life and … [Continue reading]

Our Regeneration and Calling on the Name of the Lord are a Miraculous Normality

That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. John 3:6

Regeneration is the greatest miracle, yet it takes place in a normal way, a miraculous normality in our Christian life; similarly, calling on the name of the Lord is a normality, yet miraculously, when we call we get the totality of the Triune … [Continue reading]

Living a Christian Life according to the Miraculous Normality of the Divine Economy

A life of ordinary days in the divine dispensing is according to the miraculous normality of the divine economy.

As believers in Christ, we have a life of ordinary days in the divine dispensing according to the miraculous normality of the divine economy; the things of God that we experience are miraculous, but we enjoy and experience them in a normal way. … [Continue reading]

Learning to be Satisfied with a Life of Ordinary Days in the Divine Dispensing

...Christ in you, the hope of glory. Col. 1:27

May we all learn to be satisfied with a life of ordinary days in the divine dispensing. As believers in Christ, we need to learn to be satisfied with a life of ordinary days in the regular and normal experiences in the divine dispensing of the … [Continue reading]

We need to Love the Lord and Keep Ourselves Open to Him, Praying to Stop our Doing

...beholding and reflecting like a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory... 2 Cor. 3:18

A genuine Christian life is one that loves the Lord and keeps itself open to the Lord and stops its doing; we simply need to love the Lord and keep ourselves open to Him, and we need to stop our doing so that He would do everything that He wants … [Continue reading]