Why do we get discouraged and disappointed? The main reason we are disappointed or discouraged is because we have expectations from the people around us, from our environment, from situations and things. Expectations – this is what drives us to discouragement. We have expectations from our parents, our family, our teachers, our children, our spouse, […]
Christ as a man lived a lowly and sorrowful human life – this fully qualified Him to be our Redeemer!
Most Christians have heard of or read a specific chapter in the Bible which gives a view of Christ found nowhere else – Isaiah chapter 53. Here we see that Christ as a perfect man lived a lowly and sorrowful human life. He didn’t “look nice” nor was he famous and charismatic – rather, He […]
Being on the alert and guarding ourselves from all vain replacements for our genuine and true God!
As we have seen in previous sharings on this blog, Christ is the One pleasing to God, and He replaces everything and everyone in God’s economy. We really are nothing and can do nothing apart from Him – we just come to Him day by day to be replaced with Christ in this organic union… […]
as the Servant of Jehovah, Christ was a man of sorrows, despised by men, willing to be humiliated…
Day by day, as you spend time with Him to enjoy Him in the Word and as you experience Him, you will appreciate the Lord Jesus more and more. How can you help it not falling in love with this One, the Servant of Jehovah? Everyone around Him was a “bruised reed” trying to hurt […]
Christ as the Servant of Jehovah would not break a bruised reed nor quench a smoking flax
Christ is the One in which Jehovah delights in. At least two times in the New Testament the Father confirmed from the heavens that Jesus Christ is His Beloved, He delights in Him, and we should see and hear only Jesus! What about me? Yes, God delights in you when you are in Christ! When […]
being awakened by God to spend time with Him and speaking as an instructed one
The prophet Isaiah also typifies Christ as the Servant of Jehovah – he is a type of Christ especially in the aspect of witnessing for God and speaking for God. Christ is the One who speaks for God and He even is the Word of God. When the Bible speaks of Isaiah as the servant […]
To live in the new creation, we have to turn from the things seen to the things not seen
In order for us to live in the new creation, we have to turn from the things seen to the things not seen. The 3 verses at the end of chapter 4 in the second epistle Paul wrote to the Corinthians are very striking, for they unveil how we, the believers in Christ who have […]