The Gospel of John is a book on life and building. It tackles nine cases of man and how Christ as life meets every man’s need. In this Gospel we see that nothing in this world can satisfy us. We were made as a vessel to contain God. We have to see our true condition today.
We are a thirsty sinner and we have a thirsty Savior who is longing for our consecration. Whenever we feel thirsty, dissatisfied, and empty, we just need to come to Him and take Him as our life. God is continually flowing out to dispense Himself with His divine life as the life element to meet the need of His elect to be their pleasure and satisfaction.
Moreover, we need to drop our human opinion and submit to the Lord’s leading and revelation for us to receive the Lord’s life-giving in resurrection. His life will take care of all our needs. We should stop ourselves from doing and turn to Christ to eat more of Him receiving Him as our life and life supply.
The moment we stop eating in our physical life, we are starting to and eventually will die. Just as eating is a daily and a process that takes a lifetime, it is the same with our spiritual experience. We should daily eat of Christ.
The more we eat of Him, the more we hunger for His Word. May we be those who are willing to take more of Christ, that Christ would enlarge our capacity to take in, assimilate, and be saturated more with His very self.
To receive the Lord’s life and experience His resurrection, we need the saints to cooperate with the Lord to lose our bondage. The Lord requires that we love one another as implied by the washing of one another’s feet. There will come a time when we will fail in our Christian life. But we should be reminded that the Lord never gives up on His people.
We should continue to remain in the church life. We just need to open to Him and repent. Surely our failure with our repentance plus His forgiveness will pave the way for the Lord to work Himself more in us and then we can experience this Christ as the way, reality and the LIFE. [sharing by sister Enjoy A. from the recent Spring 2011 College Age Conference in Wales]
