Grace is the Processed and Consummated Triune God coming to us to be our Enjoyment

Grace is the Triune God processed and consummated for us so that we may enjoy Him; grace is nothing else but the processed and consummated Triune God coming to us for our enjoyment and experience in our daily living.

Nowhere in the New Testament do we see that grace is something that God gives us as an outward thing or something that He merely does for us.

Yes, God does bless us, He gives us things, He even may cause us to prosper, and He may heal us, but all these are not necessarily grace.

Grace is first mentioned in the New Testament with the incarnation of the Lord Jesus.

When Christ came, grace came. So grace is not just a thing – grace is a person, something living and working, something of God that comes to us in waves upon grace.

And grace came with Christ; before Christ came, man could not receive grace, because God was not yet processed and consummated to be received and enjoyed by man.

Some Christians think that grace from God is like winning the lottery or receiving benefits; these outward things can render us some joy or help for the moment, but they may not cause us to gain more of God.

Grace is related to God and is for our enjoyment; grace is the Triune God processed and consummated for us so that we may enjoy Him and partake of Him.

The Bible speaks of the grace of God, the grace of Christ, and of the Spirit of grace; grace is of the Triune God and it reaches us in Christ as the Spirit for our enjoyment.

We need to have a change in concept and view concerning grace.

If we see that grace is nothing else but the processed and consummated Triune God, we will daily ask the Lord to give us the portion of grace we need for that day, for without His grace we can’t do anything.

Paul testified that he labored more abundantly than the others but it was not of him or because of his zeal, but because of the grace of God which was with him.

Our daily living should be in grace and by grace, and our work should be the grace working in us and through us. Even our labor for the Lord should be of grace and by grace.

May the Lord enlighten us and remove any old, religious, natural concepts that we may have concerning grace, and may we come to the Lord, again and again, to enjoy Him as grace.

The Father is the source of grace as love, the Son is grace itself, the element of grace, and the Spirit is the application of grace and transmission of grace.

The grace which is of God and which is Christ Himself is being transmitted to us by the Spirit to be our enjoyment and experience day by day.

Grace is the Processed and Consummated Triune God coming to us to be our Enjoyment

When God became a man, when the Word became flesh and tabernacled among us, He was full of grace and reality (John 1:1, 14).

Grace is the incarnated God Himself.

If God were to remain in Himself, He could not become grace to be enjoyed by us; however, God in His economy went through a process and was consummated to be our enjoyment as grace.

The reason the Old Testament uses mainly favor and not grace is that at that time God was not incarnated to reach man as grace.

But praise the Lord, today God has been processed and consummated to come to us and be our enjoyment as grace!

Grace is the embodiment of God, who became a God-man with divinity and humanity, passed through human living, died on the cross, resurrected, and entered into ascension; such a One is now the life-giving Spirit dwelling in us (1 Cor. 15:45; 6:17).

We should be clear that grace is not anything material or outward that God gives to us or does for us; rather, grace is God Himself in His embodiment.

Jesus Christ is God incarnated, God who came to be a God-man.

The carpenter’s son, Jesus the Nazarene, was an extraordinary person; He was both God and man, He had both divinity and humanity, and He had both the divine life and the human life.

God lived in Him and He was Emmanuel, God with us; he was God yet man, man yet God, and such a One was the embodiment of the grace of God.

Grace is the Triune God processed and consummated for us so that we may enjoy Him (John 1:14, 16-17; 1 Pet. 5:10; 2 Cor. 13:14; Heb. 10:29; 1 Cor. 15:10, 45b; Rev. 22:21).

Without Him being processed and consummated, we can never enjoy God as grace.

Our God is the God of all grace (1 Pet. 5:10), who has called us into His eternal glory in Christ Jesus; this One perfects, establishes, and strengthens us.

The God of all grace, after passing through various processes in Christ and after being consummated to become the Spirit, can now establish us, strengthen us, and perfect us.

May we learn to open to the Lord again and again and ask Him to reveal to us what grace is and how can we enjoy the processed and consummated Triune God today as grace.

Grace is not merely something that we try to understand or learn the definition of; grace needs to be applied to us to become our establishing, our strengthening, and our perfecting.

Without being processed, the Triune God could not be grace to us; but praise the Lord, God went through a process in His economy and was consummated to be grace to us for our enjoyment!

God became a man – the Word became flesh, and God put on humanity, the human nature, the sinless flesh; this was a process that God went through in His economy.

In Himself, in His very essence and person, God is perfect and complete, and He doesn’t need to improve or change.

But in His economy, in His heart’s desire, He went through the process of becoming a man to be the incarnated Triune God; in Christ Jesus, we see the Father, the Son, and the Spirit.

The Father as the source was embodied and expressed in Christ the Son (John 14:8-11); though the Father is hidden, the Son manifests Him among men.

The Lord Jesus went through incarnation and human living, and He did and spoke many things for God in His earthly living.

Then, He was betrayed, arrested, and crucified on the cross; He then died and was buried, and on the third day He resurrected from the dead.

In His resurrection, He became the firstborn Son of God and we were begotten as His many brothers, and He became the life-giving Spirit to impart Himself into all those who believe into Him (John 20:17).

In His incarnation, God went through a process to become a man; in His resurrection, He went through another process to become a life-giving Spirit.

Now as the Spirit He is the processed and consummated Triune God to be grace to us for our enjoyment.

This transformed One, the God who in His economy went through the process of incarnation, human living, crucifixion, death, resurrection, and ascension, is now qualified and ready to be dispensed into us to be grace to us.

Grace is the processed and consummated Triune God reaching us and coming to us to be grace to us for our enjoyment. Hallelujah!

Thank You, dear Lord Jesus, for becoming a man and manifesting God before us. Thank You for going through the process of incarnation, human living, death, resurrection, and ascension to be the very grace of God for our enjoyment and experience today. Hallelujah, grace is the Triune God processed and consummated for us so that we may enjoy Him in our experience today! Amen, Lord, we come to You to enjoy You as grace. We open our whole being to You to just enjoy You. Thank You for coming into us as the processed and consummated Triune God to be with us, stay with us, abide with us, and be our enjoyment for our experience.

The Processed and Consummated Triune God Dispenses Himself into us to be our Portion of Grace so that we Enjoy Him as Everything in his Divine Trinity

The way Satan has his way in us and through us is not by having our cooperation or agreement but by deceiving us, tricking us, and usurping us.

However, God is great, and in His greatness, He seeks to have our consent.

On His side, He did everything for us: He was embodied and went through the processes of human living, death, resurrection, and ascension, and now He is a life-giving Spirit.

The Father is embodied in the Son, the Son is realized as the Spirit, and the Spirit comes to us to reach us as grace for our enjoyment (Heb. 10:29).

We were made in the image of God and according to His likeness so that we may enjoy God and partake of God; however, for us to do this, He had to go through a process and be the processed and consummated Triune God reaching us as grace.

Now we simply need to open to Him, and even this opening to Him is a reaction to His attraction. How wonderful our God is!

As we hear the gospel and are under the hearing of the faith, as we read the Bible and turn our hearts to Him, we just enjoy Him.

We are in the age of grace – the age of the enjoyment of Christ.

The processed and consummated Triune God dispenses Himself into us to be our portion as grace so that we may enjoy Him as everything in His Divine Trinity (2 Cor. 13:14).

The Father Himself is the source of grace, the Son is the embodiment of grace, and the Spirit is the Spirit of grace (Heb. 10:29) to reach us for our enjoyment.

2 Cor. 13:14 is a well-known verse much used in Christianity as a benediction for the congregation before or after the Sunday service; however, there’s nothing ritualistic or doctrinal about this verse.

The love of the Father is expressed and realized in the grace of the Son, and the grace of Christ reaches us and is applied to us through the fellowship of the Spirit for our enjoyment.

The Spirit as the consummation of the processed Triune God is in us to be our life and life supply; He is our living water of life to quench our thirst (John 7:37-39), our bread of life to satisfy our hunger (6:63), and the breath of life for us to breathe in and live (20:22).

The Spirit also becomes the divine grace enjoyed by us. Hallelujah!

When Christ was on earth, as seen in the Gospels, He didn’t care for right or wrong; He came as God mingled with man to bring God to man and man to God, and He cares only that we come to Him, enjoy Him, receive Him, and be one with Him.

God cares about us receiving Him and enjoying Him as grace.

He wants to become our life and our person; He wants to live in us so that we live Him and live because of Him (Gal. 2:20).

How can this be? How can we, human beings, live because of and by another person?

It is only by the processed and consummated Triune God dispensing Himself into us to be our portion of grace so that He may be our life and everything.

This is our Christian life: a life of enjoying the Lord as grace, a life of partaking in the dispensing of the processed and consummated Triune God as grace to us.

Lord Jesus, we open to Your divine dispensing today. We open for the processed and consummated Triune God to dispense Himself into us to be our portion of grace for our enjoyment. Amen, Lord, be everything to us today. Thank You for being processed and consummated to be the Spirit as our grace for our enjoyment. Hallelujah, we believers in God’s New Testament economy can enjoy the processed and consummated Triune God as grace today, tomorrow, in the next age, and for eternity! We take You as our life, Lord, and we take You as our person; live in us today so that we may live You and live because of You. We just want to be one with You. Keep us enjoying You as grace today.

References and Hymns on this Topic

• Sources of inspiration: the Word of God, my enjoyment in the ministry, a sharing by brother James Lee, and portions from, Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1991-1992, vol. 2, “The Law and Grace of God in His Economy“, pp. 322-327, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, The Grace of God in the Economy of God (2022 International Chinese-speaking Conference), week 1, entitled, The Tremendous Significance of the Grace of God as Revealed in the New Testament.
• Hymns on this topic:
  – It is this grace-Christ as our inward strength- / Which with His all-sufficiency doth fill; / It is this grace which in our spirit is, / There energizing, working out God’s will. (Hymns #497)
  – God as the Father in the Son / Has been embodied and expressed, / And God the Spirit is the Son’s / Reality to be possessed. / 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)
  – For God has been processed, as air now, He’s free; / This life-giving pneuma is all that we need. / He’s rich and abundant, so plentiful, He, / In spirit to walk is to breathe Him indeed. / O, say, aren’t you glad that the Spirit’s outpoured / And God, fully processed, is flowing in us? / So freely we’re breathing this life-giving Lord, / And breathing, receiving His life, glorious! (Hymns #1114)