As believers in Christ, we need to come to the Lord with all our toils and burdens and He will give us rest, and we need to take His yoke upon us, being submissive to do the Father’s will even as He did, for Christ’s life of submission is ours. God desires to bring us […]
Reaching Maturity by Having a Subdued and Resurrected Will for the Spiritual Warfare
In Song of Songs 3 and 4 we see that the loving seeker has reached maturity, and the secret of her maturity is that her will was subdued and resurrected, so now it is useful to the Lord in resurrection; this is related to spiritual warfare. In the Lord’s eyes, on one hand we are […]
Christ is the Representation of Submission to Authority; His Life of Submission is in us
Christ, the Son of God, willingly emptied Himself to become a created man; He learned obedience through the things which He suffered, and He became the representation of submission to authority (Phil. 2:6-8). Our pattern in our Christian life is not merely a man but a God-man, our God-man Savior who emptied Himself and humbled […]