The “diamond” in the “box” of the Bible is that God became man to make man God in life and in nature but not in the Godhead; God became man through incarnation by participating in man’s humanity, and man becomes God through transformation by participating in God’s divinity, in particular as we see in this article, by participating in God’s life, God’s nature, and God’s mind.
Lord Jesus, may we see what You see when we read the Bible. Unveil us to see not only the many outward things You do but also what is on Your heart. Oh Lord, we praise You for becoming man through incarnation so that You may participate in man’s humanity! Hallelujah, we now become God in life and nature but not in the Godhead through transformation by participating in God’s divinity! Amen, Lord, make us the same as You are! Amen!
How we thank and praise the Lord that He has revealed to us what is the “diamond” in the “box” of the Bible, which is the eternal economy of God (Gen. 1:26; John 12:24; Rom. 8:29).
The Bible is the word of God, the unique divine revelation, the autobiography of the Triune God. God becoming man so that man might become God in life and in nature but not in the Godhead, is the essence of the entire Bible, the diamond in the box of the Bible, the eternal economy of God. Wow!
We need to not only know this and recite this but live in the light of the vision of God’s economy! If we read the Bible without paying attention to this crucial point, in a very real sense, the Bible is an empty book.
The Bible is definitely not an empty book, for it is God’s word, even the breathing out of God; however, if in our reading of the Bible we do not see the diamond in the box of the Bible, we may pay attention to many things but not to what God is after, and we may miss the mark.
For example, there may be a diamond in a very attractive box; a child would be drawn to the box and prefer the box, but if you know the value of the diamond, the box will be secondary and the diamond will be more important.
The diamond in the box of the Bible is that in Christ God has become man in order that man might become God in life and in nature but not in the Godhead.
Sadly, the vast majority of today’s Christians neglect this crucial point in the Bible. May we not miss this and may we not neglect it.
May we realise that in Christ, God has become man to make man God in life and in nature but not in the Godhead, and that God desires to mingle Himself with man to be one entity.
What a glorious truth! And how inspiring it is for us to live before the Lord with this in view! Amen!
God became Man through Incarnation by Participating in Man’s Humanity; Man becomes God through Transformation by Participating in God’s Divinity
One day, the eternal, infinite, all-inclusive, and vast God became a man; the Word was incarnated to become flesh (John 1:1, 13). This is amazing!
God became man through incarnation by participating in man’s humanity. He participated in man’s humanity, that is, He partook of the human flesh, lived a human life, and enjoyed all that being a human means.
He lived as a man, was touched with the feeling of our weaknesses, and He suffered as a man.
God became man through incarnation so that He may participate in man’s humanity.
Now, after He became the life-giving Spirit and came into our spirit, we also are becoming God in life and nature but not in the Godhead, through transformation!
We believers in Christ are becoming God through transformation by participating in God’s divinity. How marvelous it is that we, fallen human beings, can be one with the Lord! This is truly amazing.
But even more amazing than this, even higher than this, is that we can participate in God’s divinity! We as God-men have the divine right to participate in the divinity of God.
To participate doesn’t mean only to partake of something but even more, to partake of something for our enjoyment.
We as God-men, human beings born of God, have the divine right to participate in God’s divinity. We were created in His image and according to His likeness (Gen. 1:26), and through regeneration, we were filled with the life of God.
Now as believers in Christ, we have God’s life and nature, and we are God-men; we are men yet we are God, for we are men by our human birth and we are God by our divine birth. Praise the Lord!
Now as children of God we have the right to participate in what God is and even to become God in life, in nature, and in expression but not in the Godhead.
May we open to the Lord and cooperate with Him today so that we may partake for enjoyment all that He is until we become the same as He is!
Lord Jesus, thank You for becoming man through incarnation to partake of man’s humanity! Hallelujah, we believers in Christ are now becoming God in life and nature but not in the Godhead, through transformation so that we may partake of God’s divinity! Amen, Lord, we want to partake of what You are in Your divine life and nature today. Thank You for regenerating us with the divine life to participate in God’s life! Praise You for giving us the divine nature for us to participate in God’s nature! Hallelujah, we are partakers of God’s life and nature and we are being transformed into His image by participating in God’s divinity! Amen!
We have the Divine Right to Participate in God’s Life
As believers in Christ, we are God-men who have the divine right to participate in God’s life (see John 3:15; Col. 3:4).
Whoever believes into the Lord Jesus has eternal life; this is His promise, and we believe His promise. When we believe into the Lord Jesus, we receive eternal life; we are born of God to be His children (John 1:12-13).
Now, as children of God who are born of God, we have eternal life. The divine life we receive at the time of our regeneration is the eternal life, the life of God.
We were created in the image of God and with His likeness, but we did not have God’s life. However, through regeneration we have been graced by God with His divine life.
He has dispensed His life into our being. Hallelujah! We have the uncreated life of God in us, the eternal life which is everlasting with respect to time and also eternal and divine in nature!
We participate in God’s life by our regeneration. Day by day, we can contact the Lord and take Him as our life.
Christ is our life. As we turn to Him, we touch Him as life, and we live by Him as life. This is very subjective and experiential.
We need to learn to know Him as life and take Him as our life in our daily living. May we exercise our divine right to participate in God’s life today.
Lord Jesus, we believe into You and we have eternal life! Hallelujah, we believers in Christ are born of God with His life to be children of God! Praise the Lord, we have the divine life in our being, and Christ Himself is our life. Amen, Lord, we take You as our life today. We want to live by Your life. We want to participate in God’s life throughout the day, in all our daily living, so that we may express Christ in our life. Praise the Lord, Christ is our life! Hallelujah, we have the divine right to participate in God’s life so that we may be transformed and become the same as Christ in life and nature but not in the Godhead! Amen!
We have the Divine Right to Participate in God’s Nature
Every life has a nature; the human life has the human nature. As believers in Christ who are born of God to be God-men, we have the divine right to participate in God’s nature.
God chose us in Christ so that we may be made holy (Eph. 1:4). He chose us to be the same as He is in His nature, which is holy. To be made holy is not only to be separated unto God but also to be different, distinct, from everything common.
The only One who is different and distinct from anything common is God. Holiness is His nature.
God wants us to partake of His holiness, His very nature, so that He may make us holy even as He is holy (1 Pet. 1:15-16). We have the divine right to participate in God’s nature and be as holy as He is.
He chose us to be holy and He is making us holy by imparting Himself as the Holy One into our being!
As He dispenses what He is into us, our whole being is saturated and permeated with His holy nature, and we become as holy as He is. Amen!
2 Peter 1:4 tells us that we are partakers of the divine nature; we partake of God’s nature by means of His promises.
Thank the Lord that He has granted to us precious and exceedingly great promises that through these we might become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption which is in the world by lust.
As we eat the Lord’s word day by day, as we read and pray over the word of God, we partake of God’s divine nature.
As we eat the word of God, as we eat the precious and exceedingly great promises of God, we are partaking of the divine nature of God.
Lord Jesus, thank You for granting us the divine right to participate in God’s nature. Hallelujah, we believers in Christ are God-men who can participate in the divine nature! Thank You, Father, for choosing us before the foundation of the world that we may be holy and without blemish. Thank You for coming to sanctify us and make us as holy as You are. We open to You today. Dispense Yourself into us as the Holy One into our being. Impart Your holy nature into us and make us holy as You are holy. Hallelujah, our whole being can be saturated and permeated with God’s holy nature for us to become the same as God in His nature! Amen, Lord, we stand on Your promises in Your word, we escape the corruption in the world, and we partake of Your divine nature! Praise the Lord, we have the right to participate in God’s nature!
We have the Divine Right to Participate in God’s Mind
As believers in Christ, we are God-men who have the divine right to participate in God’s mind.
Where do we see this and how can we say this? According to Ephesians 4:23 we need to be renewed in the spirit of our mind, and according to Philippians 2:5, we need to let the mind of Christ be our mind.
The same mind that Christ had needs to be in us today. This is how we are transformed: by the renewing of our mind.
We believers in Christ have a regenerated spirit, a spirit that is mingled with the indwelling Spirit of God.
As we exercise our spirit and come to God’s word, as we set our mind on our spirit, the mingled spirit spreads into our mind to become the spirit of our mind.
In this way we exercise our divine right to participate in God’s mind. Day by day we realise that we need to be renewed in our mind, for our mind is full of things that are not proper, and our mind is like a minefield. Oh Lord!
So we contact the Lord, come to Him in His word, and we pray-read the word of God so that the mingled spirit may spread into our mind and renew our mind.
We are transformed by the renewing of the mind (Rom. 12:2). His mind becomes our mind.
As we read the Bible day by day with the exercise of our spirit and remain in the meetings with the saints to be under the hearing of faith, our mingled spirit spreads into our mind and we are renewed in our mind.
We start to think the way the Lord thinks, for His mind is becoming our mind. We long for such a transformation by the renewing of the mind!
We long for the Lord to spread more in our mind and make our mind new, even to make His mind become our mind! Thank the Lord that this is our divine right, to participate in the mind of Christ!
Lord Jesus, we exercise our divine right to participate in the mind of Christ! Hallelujah, we can read and pray over the word of God with the exercise of our spirit so that we may allow the mingled spirit to spread into our mind and renew our mind! Amen, Lord, may we be renewed in the spirit of our mind a little more today! Spread as life from our spirit into our mind to renew it, make it life, and impart the mind of Christ into us! Lord Jesus, we want to let the mind of Christ become our mind and dwell in us. We exercise our spirit to be in the meetings with the saints under the hearing of faith and we come to You in Your word. We just open, Lord, and we allow You to flow, spread, and saturate us with what You are! May the mind of Christ become our mind today! 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 brother Ted Williamson on this topic, and portions from, Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1994-1997, vol. 4, “Incarnation, Inclusion, and Intensification,” ch. 4, 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 2.
- Hymns on this topic:
– In Thee God is the life to us, / In Thee He is the light; / In Thee His nature we partake / And with Him we unite. (Hymns #56 stanza 4)
– Oh! the holy life of Jesus / Thru Thy grace we now possess; / Thou wilt make us e’en partakers / Of Thy very holiness. / When within that holy city, / Thy full holiness we’ll share, / To the uttermost forever, / “Thou art holy,” we’ll declare. (Hymns #22 stanzas 5-6)
– Promises, promises, all God’s called ones share; / Promises, given us, great and precious are. / These we take to partake of God’s nature true, / Having thus escaped the world’s corruption too. (Hymns #1211 stanza 4)
