In order for us to eat Christ as the tree of life, we must give Him the first place in all things, that is, we need to love Him with the first love so that we may enjoy Him as life in the church life and have the testimony of Jesus; as we do this, […]
Allow the Cross to Deal with the Obstacles to God’s Life in us under His Shining
As we learn to enjoy and live by the tree of life, God in Christ as life in our spirit, we realise there are some obstacles that God’s life encounters in us, and we open to the Lord’s shining so that His cross may operate in us and break us for the Lord’s life to […]
Partake of the Crucified and Resurrected Christ as the Reality of the Tree of Life
We need to be brought back to the enjoyment of Christ as the tree of life, in particular, to the eating of the crucified and resurrected Christ as the tree of life in the church life today, so that we may partake of a special portion of the tree of life in the next age […]
See that the Goal of God’s Creation and the Goal of His Complete Salvation is Life
Christ as life is the reality of the tree of life, which is the centre of the universe; life is the goal of God’s creation and of God’s complete salvation, for both the purpose and goal and centre of God’s creation and His salvation are life, leading to life and focused on life. Hallelujah for […]
Enjoying Christ as the Redeeming Lamb and as the Bridegroom Preparing His Bride
Christ is the Bridegroom coming to gain His bride, and we are being prepared as the bride of Christ going to meet the Bridegroom; on the one hand, He is the Lamb of God to take away the sin of the world, and on the other hand, He is the Bridegroom who came to gain […]
Enjoy Christ as our Lovely Bridegroom: the Sons of Bridechamber become His Bride
In the books of Matthew and Revelation, Christ is revealed as the Bridegroom; He is the lovely Bridegroom and we are His bride, and as the Bridegroom, He’s the most wonderful Person for a living enjoyment in His presence, and we as the sons of the bridechamber love to be in His presence, listening to […]
Christ is the Believers’ Physician as they Live under the Discipline of the Inner Life
When we see Paul’s experience in his later ministry, we are helped to have a proper appreciation of Christ as the Physician, for he cared for his co-workers in an intimate way but was under the discipline of the inner life rather than under the power of the outward gift; may we come to the […]