This morning I enjoyed this verse so much - 1 Thes 1:3, 'Remembering unceasingly your work of faith and labor of love and endurance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father'. Just to pray over this verse, to ask the Lord, Lord, … [Continue reading]
our Christian life is a life of preaching the gospel by loving one another
Until the Lord comes, since we are saved, we preach the gospel through our living, our attitude, our words - our very Christian life is a preaching of the gospel. Actually, according to Paul's word in Phil 1:5-6, it is Christ who does this good … [Continue reading]
as strangers and sojourners on this earth, we are ready to move for the Lord’s interest
Yesterday we saw that when the Lord appears to us, we consecrate ourselves to Him and put everything on the altar. This is what our father Abraham did, and this is our spontaneous reaction to His appearing. Also, we live a life of the tent: we are … [Continue reading]
Our Christian life is a life of the altar and the tent, just like Abraham’s life
Abraham's life was characterized by these two things: he built an altar, and he lived in a tent. Whenever God appeared to him, he didn't GO and do something immediately: he simply built an altar, consecrating himself to God, putting everything he is … [Continue reading]
our believing is not our natural virtue, but a reaction to the appearing of God
If you read the history of Abraham, you will see that, even though people call him a "giant of faith", he was not such a big "giant" (actually, God is the giant of faith). All his "great steps" were taken in faith after God appeared to him. It … [Continue reading]
faith and love are two inseparable virtues of the believers in Christ, Titus 3:15
My words are not adequate, but I enjoyed Titus 3:15 all these past few months, especially by listening to it being sung, me singing it, singing it with the saints in a spontaneous way, and reading & enjoying the explanatory footnotes on this … [Continue reading]
We can sow and plant Christ as the tree of life! It is God who gives the growth!
Christ said, "I am the vine..." (John 15:1), "I am the bread of life" (John 6:35), and "I am the way, the reality, and the life" (John 14:6). These verses show us that Christ is the tree of life - a vine tree, reaching out everywhere, full of the … [Continue reading]