According to Num. 6:23-26 and 2 Cor. 13:14, blessing is nothing else but the enjoyment of the Triune God, for to bless is to bring God into man and to bring man into the presence of God for man to enjoy all that the Triune God has and is.
In Numbers 6 we see the blessing with which the priests were to bless the children of Israel; this blessing is the eternal blessing of the Triune God, who gives Himself to man and wants man to come to Him to enjoy Him.
First, the Father blesses us and keeps us; He keeps us from the evil one, and He brings us into a position where we can receive His blessing.
Second, the Son shines upon us and is gracious to us; Christ came as the shining of God to express God, and He grace to us for our enjoyment.
Third, the Spirit lifts up His countenance upon us and gives us peace; the Spirit is God’s lifted-up countenance upon us, and He gives Himself to us as peace.
These three blessings are not separate but one, for the Triune God wants to bless us by dispensing Himself in His Divine Trinity into us for our enjoyment.
Our Christian life is a life under the blessing of the Triune God; our God is Triune so that He can dispense all that He is into us, and the real blessing in the universe is the enjoyment of the Triune God.
I was particularly impressed with the fact that the Spirit is the lifted-up countenance of God, and He gives us peace.
The Spirit with our Spirit is the smiley God-emoji, the smiling face of God with us; when we exercise our spirit and confess anything that stands between us and God, we have the smile of God, and we can behold Him face to face, looking at the index of His eyes.
God doesn’t want us to merely know Him outwardly as the One who is keeping us from the evil one or who came as God’s shining to us to be gracious to us; He wants us to have the shining of His face, to be filled with Him, and to enjoy His peace.
There’s no peace today in the world; the only way to enjoy peace is to be under the dispensing of the Triune God and to enjoy the lifted-up countenance of God in the Spirit. Hallelujah!
May we lift up our eyes from our situation and condition, exercise our mingled spirit, and contact the Lord in spirit so that He as the Spirit with our spirit would impart peace to us, be our rest and enjoyment, and fill us with the presence of the Triune God.
When we enjoy the Triune God habitually in such a way, we ourselves become channels of the divine blessing to others, ministering the Triune God into people for their enjoyment.
Blessing is to bring Man into the Presence of God and to bring God into others
In 2 Cor. 13:14 Paul uttered a New Testament blessing to all the believers in Christ, The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit with you all.
This blessing is actually the same as that in Num. 6:23-27, for it is the blessing of the Triune God for His people to enjoy Him.
The grace of the Lord is actually the Lord Himself as life and everything to us for our enjoyment. The love of God is God Himself as the source of the grace of the Lord, and this love is toward us. The fellowship of the Spirit is the Spirit Himself as the transmission and flow of the grace of the Lord with the love of God for our enjoyment and participation.
What we see in the Old Testament in Num. 6 is the priests bringing men to God; through the blessing in this chapter, man is brought into the presence of God.
God the Father keeps us, God the Son is gracious to us, and God the Spirit is happy with us and gives us peace; this brings us, sinners saved by grace, into the presence of God to enjoy all that He is to us.
What we see in the New Testament with the blessing in 2 Cor. 13:14, however, is the gracious visitation of the Triune God; in this blessing God is brought into man for man’s enjoyment and participation.
The priests bring man to God to be in the presence of God, and the apostles bring God to man for man’s enjoyment. Through the blessing of the apostle Paul, we are being brought into the enjoyment of God as love, grace, and fellowship! Amen!
In the Old Testament the basic thought regarding blessing is that God’s blessing brings man into God’s presence, but in the New Testament we see that blessing is to bring God to man for man’s enjoyment.
Blessing, therefore, is to bring man into the presence of God to enjoy God, and to bring God into man for man to enjoy the Triune God.
In a sense, therefore, the blessings in Num. 6 and the one in 2 Cor. 13:14 are very different, for one brings man to God and the other brings God to man.
Hallelujah, we as God’s people are under God’s blessing, and this is to bring us into the presence of God and to bring God into us for our enjoyment!
Our concept concerning blessing needs to be changed; we need to realise that, on one hand, to bless others is to bring them into the presence of God and, on the other hand, to bless others is to bring God into them as love, grace, and fellowship for them to enjoy the Triune God.
In Christianity, however, this word “blessing” has very much been spoiled and misunderstood to the point that, as the words of the song says, “count your blessings, name them one by one” means that people count how many outward things God did for them, and that’s what they consider as blessings.
Many times at the end of the year believers gather together and consider before the Lord what He has done for them, and they list their “blessings” one by one.
We do not put down such a practice, neither do we say that it is unscriptural; however, our concept concerning blessing needs to be uplifted and updated according to God’s word.
The proper blessing is to bring people into the presence of God and to bring God into them as love, grace, and fellowship so that they may enjoy the Triune God – the Father, the Son, and the Spirit – as their everything! Blessing is a matter of enjoying the Triune God!
Lord Jesus, thank You for blessing us with Yourself for our enjoyment. Uplift our realisation of what Your blessing is, Lord, so that we may have the same concept as You do in this regard. Cause us to realise, Lord, that blessing is to bring man into the presence of God to enjoy God, and to bring God into man as love, grace, and fellowship for man to enjoy the Triune God! Keep us enjoying You, Lord, as love, grace, and fellowship! Keep us enjoying Your blessing, and make us channels of the divine blessing to others so that we may bring them to God and bring God to them for their enjoyment and participation!
Enjoying the Transmission of Triune God as Love, Grace, and Fellowship into us
In 2 Cor. 13:14 we see the gracious visitation of the Triune God for our enjoyment and participation; this is a New Testament blessing for all believers in Christ to enjoy the Triune God.
Love, grace, and fellowship are not three separate things, just as the Father, the Son, and the Spirit are not three separate “gods”; rather, love is the source, grace is the course and expression, and fellowship is the flow and transmission.
The Father God is the source; He is the source of everything positive, including the source of love and life and light, and so the love of God is the source.
The grace of Christ is the course, the expression, the coming out of God; Christ the Son came to express God full of grace and reality, and in Him we saw, enjoyed, and received God’s grace.
The fellowship of the Spirit is the transmission, the flow, of the love of God as the source and the grace of Christ as the course.
We cannot touch God – He is holy and righteous, and He dwells in unapproachable light, but God as love has been embodied and expressed in Christ as grace.
We can come to Christ and enjoy God’s love through the grace of Christ.
And how can we practically enjoy Christ? It is by the fellowship of the Holy Spirit; what comes to us and reaches us is the flow of the Triune God, the transmission of God, which is the Spirit with our spirit.
When we are regenerated, we are joined to the Lord as one spirit, for the Spirit mingles Himself with our spirit and makes us one spirit with the Lord.
Now all that God is as the source and all that Christ is, has, and has done as the course and expression, is all in the Spirit, who is joined to our spirit to transmit and communicate all that the Triune God is and has to us.
Love is within, grace is the expression of love, and love and grace are transmitted through the fellowship.
What God gives us is not “things” such as love, grace, and fellowship; rather, God is love, He is grace, and He is fellowship, and as we touch the Lord in spirit, we enjoy a flow, a transmission, a dispensing of the love of God and the grace of Christ through the fellowship of the Holy Spirit.
How we thank and praise the Lord that He is everything, He has done everything, and He is being transmitted into us as the fellowship of the Spirit to impart all that the Triune God has and is into us!
The Spirit today is the transmission of the grace of Christ with the love of God for our experience and enjoyment of the Triune God with Their divine virtues. Praise the Lord!
Lord, we open to You to enjoy the transmission of the love of God with the grace of Christ by the fellowship of the Spirit into our entire being! Hallelujah, God the Father is the source, God the Son is the course and expression of God the Father, and the Spirit is the transmission of the Lord with God for us to experience and enjoy the Triune God! Amen, Lord, we exercise our spirit to enjoy the blessing of the Triune God by enjoying the transmission of the love of God with the grace of Christ by the Spirit with our spirit!
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References and Hymns on this Topic
- Inspiration: the Word of God, my enjoyment in the ministry, the message by Minoru Chen for this week, and portions from, Life-study of Genesis, msg. 95 (by Witness Lee), as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Crystallisation-Study of Numbers (1), week 7, The Eternal Blessing of the Triune God.
Hymns on this topic:
# The love of God and the grace of Christ / And fellowship of the Holy Spirit / Be with you, be with you all, / Be with you all, be with you all. (Scripture Song)
# The love of God, the grace of Christ Jesus, / Fellowship of the Spirit divine; / Be with us all, and be with us ever; / Blessing and praise shall now intertwine! (Song on, Eternal Blessing)
# May God the Father’s love to us / In God the Son as grace be known, / Thru God the Spirit’s fellowship, / That God our portion we may own. (Hymns #610)
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