For a child is born to us, / A Son is given to us; / And the government / Is upon His shoulder; / And His name will be called / Wonderful Counselor, / Mighty God, / Eternal Father, / Prince of Peace. Isa. 9:6
Dear saints, let us pray that the trainees would see and enter into the goal of the training, which is first to reach the highest peak of the divine revelation—God becoming a man that man may become God in life and in nature but not in the Godhead (Isa. 9:6; Heb. 2:14a; John 1:14a; 1 Cor. 15:45b; John 1:12-13; 2 Pet. 1:4; 1 John 3:2; Hymns, “What Miracle! What Mystery!”).
Hymn: What Miracle! What Mystery! (stanza 1)
What miracle! What mystery!
That God and man should blended be!
God became man to make man God,
Untraceable economy!
From His good pleasure, heart’s desire,
His highest goal attained will be.God is God, and He Himself has begotten us as His children. Whatever anything is born of, that is what it is. We cannot say that when sheep beget sheep, the old sheep are sheep but the little sheep are not sheep. Since God has begotten us, we are the children of God. Furthermore, 1 John 3 says that God will work on us to such an extent that we will be like Him completely (v. 2). From the day God created man, this has been the purpose of God. Hence, what He created was man, yet He created man with the image of God. Adam was created with God’s image and likeness. Then God set man before the tree of life, meaning that He wanted man, who had God’s image, to receive God as his life. As a result, if a man who has received God as his life is not God, then what is he? But the Lord also shows us clearly that we are God in life and nature. A father begets a son, and this son surely is the same as the father in life and nature. Suppose the father is an emperor. We cannot say that all his children are emperors. The children have only their father’s life and nature but not his status; this is clear. God did this that He might produce a Body for Christ, that is, that He might produce an organism for the Triune God, the ultimate manifestation of which is the New Jerusalem. (Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1994-1997, vol. 1, “The High Peak of the Vision and the Reality of the Body of Christ,” ch. 1)
More details via Beseeching.org, day 418.
