If we come to the Word of God as His loving seekers, we receive many blessings. First, we will receive light becoming life; the Word of God is the embodiment of God as light, and as He shines on us, the divine life comes into us to regenerate us and grow in us. Christ as the Spirit shines in and on us through His word, and as we pray-read over the word of God to go deeper with the Lord, we receive the divine life in our spirit and this life grows in us.
Hallelujah, as God’s loving seekers we can enjoy the blessing of the divine light becoming life in our experience through the function of the Word of God!
Today we would like to see one more blessing we receive from the function of God’s word: the blessing of being watered by God and absorbing God with all His unsearchable riches. If we come to the word of God as His loving seekers, we will be watered by God and we will absorb God with all His unsearchable riches in and through His word.
How God’s Loving Seekers Experience the Blessing of being Watered by the Word
God’s loving seekers experience the blessing of being watered by the Word of God. How does this happen, and how can this be? When we turn our heart to love the Lord and we exercise our spirit to pray over God’s word, the Word of God comes into our spirit as living water, and we receive much nourishment from it.
The Lord calls all His seekers, Come to the waters, you who have no money, come buy and drink wine and milk (Isa. 55:1)! If we pay the price to love the Lord and come to Him in His word, we will be supplied with living waters, wine, and mild. In the water there’s the nutrients, the supply of food; in Rev. 22:1-2 we see that on both sides of the river of water of life was the tree of life – this means that with the water comes also the supply, the food.
When we exercise our spirit to pray-read the Word of God, we drink God in Christ as the Spirit as the water, and in this water there’s the rich supply with all that God is, has, and has accomplished. No mater where we are and who we are, inwardly we can come to the river of water of life to drink and receive the supply. This living water comes not in our mind but in our spirit, bringing into our spirit all the elements of the spiritual nourishing food to cause us to grow in life.
If we would be watered by the Word of God, we must have proper roots and even fine root hairs with which we can absorb the life supply. If we have in our heart all kinds of hidden sins, personal desires, self-seeing, and self-pity, these are rocks that cause the word of God to not grow and bear fruit because we have no roots that go deep (see Mark 4:5-6, 17; Luke 8:6). We need to have fine root hairs with which we absorb the rich supply in Christ and drink the living water that comes into our spirit.
When we exercise our spirit over the living word of God, the water in God’s word is dispensed into our spirit, and we are nourished inwardly with the elements of God. When the Word of God becomes water in our spirit, we receive its nourishing elements, and we have the enlightenment, the life supply, and the watering. Every day, as God’s loving seekers, we want to cooperate with the Lord to remove any rocks and develop fine roots that go down in Christ so that we may absorb Him and be watered by Him.
We need to confess any hidden sins, deal with any personal desires, and renounce our self-seeking and self-pity so that we the soil in our heart would be good and we would be inwardly watered and supplied with the living word of God.
When we are in our mingled spirit, we are very fine – we are not rough or coarse. If we are still rough, we are not in our spirit; when we exercise our spirit, we have fine delicate roots that go down in Christ to absorb the rich nutrients of Christ into our spirit so that we may grow in life.
Lord Jesus, may we experience the blessing of being watered by the Word every time we come to read the Bible. Make us Your loving seekers who are pure in heart and have an exercised spirit to be watered by God’s word and receive the rich nutrients of God in our spirit. Lord Jesus, we want to have proper roots and even fine root hairs to absorb the life supply contained in the water in the word of God. Oh Lord, may there be no undealt with sins, no personal desires, no self-seeking, and no self-pity in us, so that we may receive the watering through the word of God!
Experiencing the Blessing of Absorbing God through the Word
As believers in Christ, we have been rooted in Christ and we are built up in Him (Col. 2:7). On the one hand, we are God’s cultivated land, living plants rooted in Christ as the rich soil; on the other hand, we are being built up in Him to be God’s organic building in this universe (1 Cor. 3:9). As those rooted in Christ, we should not allow anything to replace Him but rather walk in Him as the living land and grow in life by absorbing His riches into us.
We have been rooted in Christ, and we need to hold Him as the Head so that, out from Him, we may receive the rich supply for our growth in life and building up (Col. 2:19). If we hold Christ as the Head by spending much time with Him to send roots deep in Him and absorb His riches, we will walk in Christ and absorb Him as the riches of the soil, the rich supply of the Head, thus experiencing the genuine and proper growth in Christ.
If we contact the Lord and spend time with Him in the Word with much prayer, we are deeply rooted in Christ and we shall spontaneously absorb His riches and walk in Him. To hold Christ as the Head experientially is related to remaining in the constant absorbing of Him as the rich soil. If we contact the Lord every day and spend time in the Word of God with much prayer, we will absorb God into us to be the element that causes us to grow in the divine life.
If we would absorb God, we need to have tender, new roots; just as a tree needs tender new roots in order to properly and vitally absorb the riches in the soil, so we need to not let ourselves get old but be fresh, revived, and renewed day by day! Even though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day (2 Cor. 4:16) through our contact with the Lord every morning and our being renewed every day!
We need to contact the Lord as the compassionate One every morning; through this contact we will receive the rich supply and we will absorb God according to His lovingkindness, compassions, and faithfulness (Lam. 3:22-23). All day long we need to send tender fresh roots into Christ by spending time in the Word with much prayer, so that we may absorb the riches in the word of God and thus be saturated with Christ and organically replaced by Him.
We have been rooted into Christ as the rich fertile soil, and we must daily absorb the rich nourishment of Christ into us to be the element that causes us to grow in life and be built up in Him. May we not lose heart when we see that our outer man is decaying but rather exercise to have tender roots in Christ to absorb His element into us so that we may grow in life and be built up in Christ!
Lord Jesus, thank You for rooting us into the rich Christ as the soil. We want to contact You and spend time with You in Your Word with much prayer so that we may absorb God into us to be the element that causes us to grow in the divine life. Lord, may we not let ourselves get old but be fresh, revived, and renewed day by day! Though our outer man is daily decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day and even right now! Lord, may we be revived every morning and renewed every day as we absorb You in Your word as Your loving seekers!
References and Hymns on this Topic
- Inspiration: the Word of God, my Christian experience, brother Dick Taylor’s sharing in the message for this week, and Life-study of Colossians, msgs. 44, 47, 51-52 (by Witness Lee), as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Crystallization-Study of Exodus (2), week 4 / msg 4, The Blessing Received by God’s loving Seekers through the function of the Word of God.
- All Bible verses are taken from, Holy Bible Recovery Version.
- Hymns on this topic to strengthen this burden:
# Thou art the food and the water of life, / Thou canst revive me, my spirit upbear; / I long to eat and to drink here of Thee, / Thyself enjoy through my reading and prayer. (Hymns #811)
# Take time to absorb Him, to gain the supply, / That we may be watered and nourished thereby; / The deeper the roots spread, the deeper the flow, / And richer and higher within us He’ll grow. (Song on Being Watered)
# O Lord, I’m just a tree in You, / Rooted and being built in You, / Absorbing all You are to me, / What a place to be! (Song on Absorbing God)
Both the growth and the building depend on being rooted. This is why Paul uses the perfect tense [in Colossians 2:7] to say “having been rooted.” Christ, the good land, is the portion, the allotment, of the saints. As the good land, He Himself is the rich, fertile soil. Having been rooted in Him, we must daily absorb the rich nourishment of Christ into us to be the element that causes us to grow. All day long tender roots should absorb the riches of Christ as the soil. The more we absorb these riches, the more we shall be saturated by Christ and organically replaced by Him. This is to grow and to be built up in Christ. (Witness Lee, Life-study of Colossians, p. 455)