Dealing with our rebellion and our natural capability through the cross

Becoming a Christian is not an end in itself, rather, it is a beginning of a new life which is not according to our concept or our human disposition. This new life is all about taking care of the living Christ within us by turning to Him, fellowshipping with Him, and doing everything in oneness with Him.

There are many obstacles in the way of His life in us, and in this portion today two of them are mentioned – rebellion and our natural abilities and capabilities. We need to learn to cooperate with the inward operating Christ – it is God who operates in us both the willing and the working – so that we would be saved from rebellion and have our natural abilities pass through the cross...

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SOURCE: A God-man in Christ

Taking the lead to experience life – how can we enjoy God as our life?

This week we are enjoying the fact that we need to take the lead to experience life. In our Christian life we should not care of anything else except the living Christ in us...

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references and further readings proposed by the author:

• Sharing inspired from, Knowing Life and the Church (chs. 1-2, by Witness Lee), as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Taking the Lead as Elders and Responsible Ones, week 1.
• Buy the morning revival book online via LSM.
• Recommended reading: eating the tree of life, Christ is the tree of life.
• Hymns on this topic:
  # God gave His Son to man to be / The tree of life so rich and free.
  # Life is mysterious, life is God Himself, / Whose whole intention focuses on man.
  # Dear Lord, Thou art the Tree of Life, / The very life supply.