As Job was going through so much suffering and loss, he realised that God has hidden these things in His heart, for there must be something in God’s heart concerning him; what is hidden in God’s heart is God’s economy to dispense Himself into us to be our everything for us to live Christ and express Christ.
Lord Jesus, we love You and we open to You. Thank You for Your eternal intention to dispense Yourself into us and become our life, our nature, and our everything. May we see what is hidden in Your heart. May we realise that God’s desire is to dispense Himself into us in all things and through all things. Oh Lord, may we come back to You as the tree of life to take You in as life and enjoy You day by day. Save us from trying to be a good man; may we be one with You to be a God-man who lives Christ and expresses Christ! Amen!
This week in our morning revival, we are on the last week of the general topic of, Noah, Daniel, and Job, patterns of living an overcoming life on the line of life.
We linger on the book of Job to prayerfully consider God’s intention with Job – that a good man become a God-man. We really want to open to the Lord so that He may make us the persons He needs today to change this age.
He wants to change the age, and He is looking for some who cooperate with Him in their age.
God has a certain procedure and order in many stages, and these are the different ages or periods of time in human history.
We need to have the Lord’s mercy to see what age we live in and prayerfully consider how we should live and work at the end of this age so that the Lord would end this age and bring in the age of the kingdom.
God desires to gain a group of people on the earth who know the spiritual age and not just the physical condition or the outward, material situation.
We need to have spiritual eyesight by being in spirit so that we may realise what God’s heart’s desire is.
We need to see the age we live in and realise what God’s goal in this age is. He is not only that we would have a new seeing, a deeper seeing, or some acquiring of truth and spiritual knowledge.
All these are helpful, but by having a deeper seeing and more spiritual knowledge, we want to go deeper into the heart of God to see His burden, His good pleasure, and His economy.
We need to see that God has something in His heart that He desires to accomplish, and unless He obtains what’s in His heart, He will not stop.
May we open to the Lord and exercise our spirit to see what is in His heart and be one with Him for the fulfilment of His economy in this age.
God’s Economy is Something that was Hidden in God’s Heart in the Time of Job but Is Revealed to us in Spirit
Job 10:13 says, But You have hidden these things in Your heart; I know that this is with You. Job just lost all his possessions, his children, and his health, and he was contending with God and arguing with his three friends concerning this whole situation.
He asked God to make known to him why He was contending with him (Job 10:2), and he realised that God must have something hidden in His heart, something that is within Him, so that He deals with Job in this way.
Job could not find the reason for God’s treatment of him, but he believed that there had to be some reason hidden in God’s heart.
He was right: there was something hidden in God’s heart, which the New Testament calls, God’s economy.
It is the Lord’s mercy that we would see what is hidden in God’s heart concerning us and concerning His dealing with us.
We may be like Job who uttered such great words of wisdom and knowledge, but did not realise what was in God’s heart concerning him and why God was dealing with him in this way.
In Job 38:7 we are told that the angels of God (the sons of God) shouted for joy when God laid the foundations of the earth. The angels might have wondered what was God’s purpose in creating the earth and man.
Even Adam himself did not know why God created him in His image and according to His likeness (Gen. 1:26).
God created many things and did many things to bring forth His creation, yet He did not reveal why did He create all things.
In the Old Testament times, God did many things among His people, with His people, and for His people, but before the New Testament time, He did not unveil to anyone what was His purpose in doing all these things.
Many people today wonder what the meaning of the universe is, the meaning of human life, and the purpose of our existence is; this is something that is hidden in God’s heart and, praise the Lord, this was revealed to us in spirit! Hallelujah!
Paul said in Ephesians 3:9 that he wants to enlighten all that they may see what the economy of the mystery is, which throughout the ages has been hidden in God, who created all things. Wow!
God created all things and did many things throughout the ages, but He did not reveal the reason or purpose for doing all these things; however, this hidden mystery was revealed to Paul, and we can know it today.
God has an economy, an eternal intention, according to which and for which He has done, is doing, and will do all things.
Through the exercise of our spirit and by coming to the Lord’s word under His shining, we can see the eternal purpose of God, His eternal economy.
The Bible is not just a book of types, teaching, poetry, or prophecies; the Bible is a book of God’s economy.
In the time of Job, as he lived approximately at the time of Abraham, he did not see God’s economy.
God had many things within Himself, but He could not unveil them to Job; He just couldn’t speak to Job about these things.
Even when the Lord Jesus came through the incarnation, as He was living on the earth, He could not speak much concerning the mystery hidden in His heart.
He told Nicodemus about regeneration that, if He told him of the things on earth and he did not believe, how will he believe if Christ would tell him of the things in heaven? (John 3:12).
The Lord Jesus was limited in what He could say to His disciples; He had many things to say to them, but they could not bear them (John 16:12-13).
However, after He went through death and came back in resurrection as the Spirit of reality, He is now guiding us into all the reality for us to see God’s economy.
The Spirit of reality doesn’t speak of Himself but what He hears from Christ, who came from God.
Thank the Lord that we today have the Spirit of reality to see God’s economy, the mystery hidden in God’s heart.
We can be unveiled to see Christ in God’s economy, enjoy Christ as the centrality and universality of God’s economy, and allow Christ to make His home deep down into our heart.
It is by exercising our spirit in coming to the Lord in His word that we see what is hidden in God’s heart. The purpose of our human existence and the reason for all our suffering is God’s economy.
May we come to the Lord, humble ourselves before Him, and exercise our spirit to see what is hidden in the heart of God concerning us.
Lord Jesus, thank You for creating us in Your image and according to Your likeness so that we may be a vessel to receive God, be filled with God and express God. We open our vessel to You today. We love You. We want to enjoy You. We want to partake of Your riches in spirit. We exercise our spirit to take You in and to allow You to be wrought into the depths of our being. Hallelujah, there is something hidden in God’s heart concerning us, something that is in His heart concerning the purpose of the creation of man and the reason for our suffering! Oh Lord, unveil us to see what is in Your heart concerning us. May we exercise our spirit and be enlightened by You so that we may see what the economy of the mystery is. Hallelujah, the economy of God is now revealed to us as we exercise our spirit, and we can apprehend what is in God’s heart and see what His intention is! Amen, Lord, we open to Your divine dispensing today. Work Yourself into us. Make us Your reproduction, Your duplication!
God’s Economy is to Dispense Himself in His Divine Trinity into us to be our Life, Nature, and Everything for us to Live Christ and Express Christ
What is God’s economy? Ephesians 3:9 is the answer to Job’s question in Job 10:13, for it shows us that the economy of the mystery hidden deep in God is the reason for Him doing all things.
But what is hidden in God’s heart, what is the reason for Him creating us and doing all things, and what is His economy?
We need a spirit of wisdom and revelation to see what the economy of God is.
This economy was hidden from the times of the ages, but it was revealed to us in spirit. We are the holy saints who can exercise our spirit to touch the Lord in His word under the ministry of the age to see what is hidden in God’s heart.
The hidden mystery in God is that God in His Divine Trinity desires to dispense Himself into man to obtain a corporate expression of Himself.
In His Divine Trinity, God desires to be dispensed and wrought into us, His creation, the man He made in His image and according to His likeness, to make man His expression.
Job did not see this but rather, he misunderstood God and thought that God was upset with him and was judging him and punishing him.
If we do not exercise our spirit to contact the Lord and enjoy Him in His word, we will also think that our sufferings and problems are God punishing us or judging us.
But if we exercise our spirit and look to the Lord, we will see that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose (Rom. 8:28-29).
What God desires is not upright men, righteous men, and good men; He desires to obtain God-men, those who live as a new man in God’s new creation.
The entire Bible shows us that God in Christ by the Spirit is dispensing Himself into us to be our life, our nature, and our everything so that we may live Christ and express Christ.
For this, God the Father strengthens us into our inner man according to the riches of His Spirit so that Christ may make His home in our heart through faith (Eph. 3:14-17) until we become the church, the fullness of the One who fills all and in all (vv. 18-21).
The apostle Paul saw God’s economy and was captured by the vision of the eternal economy of God.
In his Epistles, he removed the veils for us to see what is hidden in God’s heart so that we may live one with the Lord for His economy.
In His economy, God desires to dispense Himself in His Divine Trinity in Christ by the Spirit into us so that we may have Him as our life, our nature, and our everything.
He dispensed Himself into us at the time of our regeneration to make us children of God, those who are born of God (John 1:12-13), and He is continually dispensing Himself to us after our regeneration.
As we open to the Lord day by day to receive and enjoy HIs divine dispensing, it will be no longer we who live but it will be Christ living in us (Gal. 2:20).
We still live in the flesh, but the life we now live, we live in faith, the faith of the Son of God who loved us and gave Himself up for us.
After being regenerated, we are being renewed, transformed, glorified, and transfigured.
God is really doing many things in us and around us and even to us, and He uses Satan as an ugly tool not to better us or perfect us but to tear us down, strip us, and consume us so that He may rebuild us with Himself to make us part of His corporate expression.
Why do we experience suffering and loss? It is for God’s economy. Why do we have a particularly difficult husband or wife? It is for God’s economy.
Why do the little ones keep us up at night and suffer from this or that? It is for God’s economy. Why do our neighbours give us a hard time and are not reasonable in the way they do things or speak to us? It is for God’s economy.
In all these things in which we experience apparent and tangible loss, the Lord wants to dispense Himself into us to make us His corporate expression.
Lord Jesus, unveil us to see the economy of God, the mystery hidden in the heart of God. We open to You. We exercise our spirit to touch You and come to Your word. May we see what the meaning of our human existence is and what the purpose of God’s dealing with us through sufferings is. Amen, Lord, may we see a clear vision of God’s economy and may this vision govern and direct our heart. Oh Lord, we open to Your divine dispensing today. Dispense Yourself in Your Divine Trinity into us to become our life, our nature, and our everything so that we may be Your expression. Amen, Lord, work Yourself into us a little more today so that it is no longer we who live but Christ who lives in us. We come to You concerning all things; we bring to You the misunderstandings, sufferings, and pains we go through. Have a way to dispense Yourself into us a little more through all these things. Gain the opening You need in us to work Yourself into us and make us part of Your corporate expression! Amen!
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 the brothers on this topic, and portions from, Life-study of Job, msg. 30 (by Witness Lee), as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Noah, Daniel, and Job – Patterns of Living an Overcoming Life on the Line of Life to Fulfill the Economy of God (2026 International Chinese-Speaking Conference), week 5, God’s Intention with Job— That a Good Man Become a God-man – day 1.
- Hymns on this topic:
– It is God’s intent and pleasure / To have Christ revealed in me, / Nothing outward as religion, / But His Christ within to be. / It is God’s intent and pleasure / That His Christ be wrought in me; / Nothing outwardly performing, / But His Christ my all to be. (Hymns #538 stanza 1 and chorus)
– I would give myself, Lord, / Fully unto Thee, / That Thy heart’s desire / Be fulfilled in me. / I no more would struggle / To myself reform, / Thus in me to hinder / What Thou wouldst perform. (Hymns #841 stanza 5)
– I am crucified with Jesus, / And He lives and dwells with me; / I have ceased from all my struggling, / ’Tis no longer I, but He. / All my will is yielding to Him, / And His Spirit reigns within; / And His precious blood each moment / Keeps me cleansed and free from sin. (Hymns #564 stanza 2)
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