Can you lose your soul-life?
Can you deny yourself? Can you take the Lord’s cross? Can you lose your soul-life?
If we are honest, we will confess, “No. We can’t.” Why, then, does the Lord tell us to lose our...
Remembering for transformation
God wants us to remember who we are: we have been chosen to become His “acquired possession” (1 Pet. 2:9). Like the Hebrews in the Old Testament, who after four hundred years became Egyptian...
Living for God’s house II: Guarding the welfare of the household
Our experience of building up the church today is deeply tied to how much we live as a true family with one another in our daily lives. Through our marriage to Christ, we’ve been...
Living for God’s house I: The eyesight of the church
God in Genesis said that all that He created, especially man, was “very good” (Gen. 1:31). What’s good in God’s eyes is very precise: God is looking for His representation and His rest through...
Terribly vital
There is a tremendous and vital force in the universe that cannot be stopped. Since the beginning when He created man, God’s desire has been for His life to be outpoured and received by...
Our warfare to win
As believers, we may passively go about our days, working from task to task, without recognizing that there is a constant warfare going on that urgently requires that we live with strength. The enemy...
An urgent voice in the age of convenience
The beginning of Exodus presents a picture of how God’s people work and live “actively” in Egypt, yet they were dead in their own condition. Today, we still witness this picture in front of...
A weighty vessel, a divine relationship
In the New Testament, the Lord often speaks in parables. The Lord’s New Testament speaking is not like the straightforward commands in the Old Testament, when God gave no room for imagination about His...
Meant to be whole
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Human life was established and meant to be whole. Since the first day of our existence, the intention was completeness. When God created Adam, God desired a oneness — a wholeness — between Him...