We have the Divine Right to Participate in God’s Being, Image, Glory, Sonship, and Likeness

As believers in Christ, we are God-men who have the divine right to participate in God’s being, God’s image, God’s glory, God’s sonship, God’s manifestation, and also to bear God’s likeness, for God became a man to partake of humanity and we are becoming God through transformation to partake of His divinity for His corporate expression.

Lord Jesus, thank You for giving us the divine right to participate in God’s divinity! What a privilege it is for us, human beings who have been redeemed, washed, cleansed, and regenerated, to participate in what God is! Hallelujah! We open to You today. We want to learn to exercise our divine right to participate in Your life, Your nature, Your being, Your image, Your glory, Your sonship, and Your manifestation! Amen, Lord, we say Amen to Your word! We open to Your inner working and dispensing! Gain in us what You are after!

Wow, if we read the Bible with the glasses of God’s eternal economy, we will be amazed to see that God has a heart’s desire, an intention, not only to be one with man but even more, to make man the same as He is in life and nature, but not in the Godhead!

We were created in the image of God and we were given God’s dominion over all things; however, it is only when God as life comes into us that we can express God and represent God.

Thank the Lord for His mercy and grace in regenerating us with His life. God Himself became a man through incarnation by participating in man’s humanity, and He became a life-giving Spirit to come into our spirit to bring us into God.

Now we as believers in Christ are children of God, born of God with His life and nature, and we are in the process of becoming God. Wow, we believers in Christ are becoming God through transformation by participating in God’s divinity.

This is not too high or abstract; this is what the Bible speaks about, and this is what we experience day by day. We can participate in God’s life, for we were regenerated with God’s life by faith in Christ.

We have the eternal life of God, and we can participate in this life. We are partakers of God’s nature by fleeing the corruption which is in the world by lusts and enjoying His precious promises.

We can participate in God’s mind by being renewed in the spirit of our mind so that we may have the mind of Christ. This is what the Bible tells us, this is what we believe, and this is what we pray to the Lord for Him to do in us. Amen!

We have the Divine Right to Participate in God’s Being

As believers in Christ who are born of God with His life and nature, we have the divine right to participate in God’s being.

In 2 Corinthians 3:18 we are told that there’s a work of transformation taking place in us not by something outward but by the Lord Spirit Himself.

The very being of God is imparted into our being so that we may partake of what God is in His being. We are being transformed into God’s very being. Wow!

When we received the gospel, we actually received the unsearchable riches of Christ as the gospel. The unsearchable riches of Christ are light, life, holiness, and righteousness.

All that God is was imparted into us as we heard the gospel, and the unsearchable riches of Christ, the riches of His being, were infused into our being (Eph. 3:8).

Now day by day we need to keep our being open to the Lord so that the unsearchable riches of what He is become part of our being.

God is dispensing His being into our being to make our being the same as His being. What He has accomplished, attained, and obtained, together with all that He is, is being dispensed into us.

We have the divine right to participate in God’s being!

Lord Jesus, thank You for giving us the divine right to participate in God’s being! Hallelujah, we have received the unsearchable riches of Christ as the gospel! Praise the Lord, the riches of God’s being are continually dispensed into us to become part of our being. We open to You, Lord. We open to Your divine dispensing. We exercise our divine right to participate in God’s being. Dispense Yourself into us as life, light, holiness, and righteousness. Make us the same as You are! Amen!

We have the Divine Right to Participate in God’s Image

What a privilege we have to participate in what God is! As God-men, we have the divine right to participate in God’s image (2 Cor. 3:18).

We were created in God’s image in an outward way, but the image God wants us to bear is not just outward but inward. He wants us to be transformed into His image from glory to glory.

The image of God is something inward, something that relates to our inner being, and we have the divine right to participate in God’s image through transformation.

This image is the image of the resurrected and glorified Christ.

We believers in Christ are now in the process of being transformed into the same image as Christ and be made the same as He is – He is the firstborn Son of God, and we are the many sons of God, the same as Christ (Rom. 8:29).

There’s the changing of our inward essence and nature, and there is the changing of our outward form so that we may match the glorified image of Christ, the first God-man.

Our destiny is to participate in God’s image. Thank the Lord that the Lord Spirit within us is in the process of carrying out a metabolic change in our being to transform us into the image of Christ.

As we remain open to Him, as we behold Him face to face with no veil, we are metabolically transformed into the image of the resurrected and glorified Christ to participate in God’s image.

Lord Jesus, thank You for giving us the divine right to participate in God’s image. Hallelujah, we are in the process of being transformed into the image of Christ by beholding and reflecting Him with an unveiled face. Amen, Lord, we open to You today. We want to behold You. Infuse us with Yourself. Imprint Your image on us. Transform us into Your image inwardly and grant us to express You outwardly. Oh, Lord Spirit, we open to Your metabolic transformation so that we may be transformed into the image of the resurrected and glorified Christ! Amen, Lord, we exercise our divine right to participate in God’s image!

We have the Divine Right to Participate in God’s Glory

Hebrews 2:10 tells us that Christ is leading many sons into glory. We believers in Christ have the divine right to participate in God’s glory. Wow!

Glory is the expression of God; we have the right to participate in God’s expression; God is making us the same as He is in His expression. Christ as the firstborn Son of God cut the way into glory, and now He is leading many sons of God into glory.

Those whom God has predestinated, these He also called, and those whom He called, these He also justified, and those whom He justified, these He also glorified (Rom. 8:30).

God called us, justified, us and also glorified us! Hallelujah! In God’s eyes, we have been glorified. In time, we are being glorified.

To be glorified in God’s complete salvation is to have our whole body saturated with the glory of His life and nature so that our body may be transfigured.

This is what the Lord will do: He will transfigure the body of our humiliation to conform it to the body of His glory (Phil. 3:21).

We have the right to participate in God’s glory, and one day God will conform our body to the resurrected, glorious body of His Son! Praise the Lord!

Day by day, little by little, Christ is leading us into glory, until one day we will express His glory in and as the New Jerusalem! Praise the Lord!

Lord Jesus, thank You for giving us the divine right to participate in God’s glory! Hallelujah, God has called us and justified us and He is now glorifying us! Praise the Lord, Christ as the firstborn Son of God is leading many sons into glory! Amen, Lord, we exercise our divine right to participate in Your glory. Glorify us more today. Bring us into Your glorious expression! Saturate our body with the glory of Your life so that we may be conformed even in our body to Your glorious and resurrected body! Praise the Lord, one day God will transfigure our body and will make it glorious! Hallelujah!

We have the Divine Right to Participate in God’s Sonship

We believers in Christ have the divine right to participate in God’s sonship. God predestinated us unto sonship through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will (Eph. 1:5).

God the Father predestinated us to be sons of God, God the Son came and redeemed us, and the Spirit comes to regenerate us and make us bona fide children of God.

Now we are children of God who are born of God with His life and nature, and we have the divine right to participate in God’s sonship (John 1:12-13).

We have the firstfruits of the Spirit, and we groan in ourselves, eagerly awaiting sonship, the redemption of our body (Rom. 8:23). What a privilege it is for us to be sons of God!

In the human realm, being the son of the king or the president is a privilege; we have a greater privilege, for we are sons of God!

Even before time began, God intended and determined that we would participate in His sonship!

Because we are God’s sons, we can have God’s life, God’s nature, God’s mind, God’s being, God’s image, and God’s glory! Praise the Lord!

Lord Jesus, thank You for giving us the divine right to participate in God’s sonship! Praise the Lord, we believers in Christ are sons of God! Thank You, Father, for predestinating us unto sonship even before time began! Thank You, dear Lord Jesus, for coming to die for us on the cross so that we may be redeemed. Thank You, Spirit, for coming to regenerate us with God’s life and make us sons of God. Hallelujah, we are children of God who can participate in God’s life, nature, mind, being, image, and glory! Amen, Lord, we groan in ourselves, eagerly awaiting sonship! Amen!

We have the Divine Right to Participate in God’s Manifestation

As God-men, we believers in Christ will participate in God’s manifestation (Rom. 8:19).

Right now the whole creation is subject to vanity and corruption due to the fall of man, but one day this will change.

The anxious watching of the creation eagerly awaits the revelation of the sons of God. Wow! When Christ our life is manifested, we will be manifested with Him in glory (Col. 3:4).

He is our life now, hiddenly and spiritually, and we learn to live by this life. But one day He will be manifested, and we will be manifested with Him in glory.

Wow, we will be manifested with God, for we will participate in God’s manifestation!

Right now we go to work, meet people, and do many things in this world, but not many know that we are sons of God who will be glorified.

They may have a sense that there’s something different about us, but there’s a veil that covers the glory.

One day, there will be an unveiling, the appearing and revelation of the sons of God, and our body will be fully redeemed, for we will be glorified.

All will see then that we are sons of God manifested with God, and we will be the same as He is in life, nature, being, image, and glory! Hallelujah!

Lord Jesus, thank You that one day we will participate in God’s manifestation! We take You as our life today and we want to live because of You and in You. Hallelujah, when Christ our life is manifested, we will also be manifested with Him in glory! Praise the Lord, even though today we are sons of God and not many realise this, one day God will be manifested, and we will be manifested with Him in glory! Amen, Lord, we are waiting for that day when we will be manifested with God as His sons, for we will be the same as You in life, nature, mind, being, image, and glory! Praise the Lord!

We have the Divine Right to Bear God’s Likeness

We believers in Christ are sons of God, and we have the right to bear God’s likeness. Where do we see this in the Bible?

In 1 John 3:2 we are told that we are children of God, and it has not yet been manifested what we will be.

However, we know that, if He is manifested, we will be like Him, because we will see Him even as He is. Wow!

One day, when He is manifested, we will be like God, for we will see Him even as He is.

Today we behold the Lord and reflect Him to a certain extent, and others may see Christ being expressed in us here and there.

But we will bear God’s likeness to be like God in every possible way when He is manifested! What a blessing and enjoyment it is to bear God’s likeness!

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 brother Ted Williams on this topic, and portions from, Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1994-1997, vol. 4, “Incarnation, Inclusion, and Intensification,” pp. 216-217, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, The Great Need for a New Revival (2026 Memorial Day Blending Conference), week 2, “Arriving at the Highest Peak of the Divine Revelation” – day 3.
• Hymns on this topic:
  – Myst’ry hid from ages now revealed to me, / ’Tis the Christ of God’s reality. / He embodies God, and He is life to me, / And the glory of my hope He’ll be. / Glory, glory, Christ is life in me! / Glory, glory, what a hope is He! / Now within my spirit He’s the mystery! / Then the glory He will be to me. (Hymns #948 stanza 1 and chorus)
  – For the glorious revelation / Of the sons of God to come, / All the creatures wait, expecting, / That they all may free become. / All creation groans together, / Subject now to vanity, / Looking for their full deliv’rance / From corruption’s slavery. (Hymns #970 stanzas 1-2)
  – By that final transformation, / We’ll be fully sanctified; / God will bring us into glory, / With His Son identified. / All creation is expecting / Sons of God revealed to be, / That they might be freed from bondage / Into glorious liberty. (Hymns #741 stanza 4)