Set our Entire Being Absolutely on the Lord to Love Him and Become His Duplication

We need to set our entire being absolutely on the Lord to be transformed into His image and become His duplication, the Shulammite, consummating in the New Jerusalem as the bride of Christ.

When we love God, we set our entire being on Him, we are occupied by Him and lost in Him, and He becomes everything to us; in this loving relationship and union with Him, we become the Shulammite, the duplication of Christ to express Him corporately.

In order for us to experience the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity, we need to remain in the divine romance.

When we love the Lord, when we give ourselves to just love Him with Him as our very love, something intrinsically happens in our being: we get changed into His image.

The whole Bible shows us that our God is love, He is loving, and He wants to pour out His love into our hearts so that we may love Him back.

God is not after people who merely do things for Him or seek to please Him by improving their behaviour and performing a certain “Christian routine.”

God is not after a group of people who merely go to church every Sunday and read their Bible every day.

What He wants is a group of loving seekers, those who are attracted to Him by coming to Him in His word and who open to Him to enjoy Him in their loving relationship with Him.

When we believed into the Lord Jesus, on one hand, we received His divine life, and on the other hand, we entered into a romantic, intimate relationship with Him.

We may love our spouse very much and we may open all things to them because we love them and we think they understand us and care for us.

However, not even our spouse can fully understand and love us; human love is limited and selfish, and at one point the sweetest of love becomes something bitter and unpleasant.

But the Lord Jesus is the One who truly loves us, understands us, and is always with us; He always wants to fellowship with us, He never condemns us, and He inwardly helps us and shepherds us.

We need to realize that we are in a loving relationship with the Lord and simply learn to open to Him, love Him, tell Him all things, and allow Him to infuse us with Himself.

If we really love the Lord and enjoy His divine dispensing, something inward will happen in our being – we will be transformed into His image.

Just as the seeker in the Song of Songs went through a process until she became the Shulammite, the counterpart of the king, so we are in a metabolic process called transformation until we become like Him to match Him.

May we give ourselves to just love the Lord. May we allow the Lord to love us.

May we keep turning to Him throughout the day and tell Him how much we love Him, so that we may remain in a romantic, intimate, and personal relationship with Him.

As we do this, as we turn our heart to Him and love Him, we are infused with Him and there’s an inward change in our being – we are changed into His image.

Love the Lord by Setting our Entire Being Absolutely on Him until we are fully One with Him

When we love something or someone, our whole heart, even our whole being, is set on and occupied and possessed by (1 Tim. 6:10-11; 2 Tim. 3:2-4; 4:8, 10a; Titus 1:8).

We cannot love in a partial way; we need to love in an absolute way. If we love the things in the world, our whole heart is set on them and we desire them, we want to have them, and we spend time in them.

But if we love the Lord, our whole heart is set on Him, and we are occupied and possessed by Him.

Loving the Lord doesn’t mean that we sing a few love songs to Him and feel a certain inner emotion swelling in our being.

Instead, we live a life of loving the Lord, not paying attention to the sentimental or emotional part but setting our whole being on Him.

When we love the Lord, we set our entire being on Him.

We take His life as our life and we take His person as our person. In the married life, we may love to be with our spouse, but we realize that they are one person and we are very different persons; very rarely the wife takes the husband as her person or the husband takes the wife as his person.

We may love our wife, and our wife may love us, but can we say that we take our wife’s person as our person? This is not so easy.

This is why couples end up arguing many times and having many reasonings and exchanges of angry words; a lot of conflicts rise up in the married life because of the difference in personality.

In the spiritual realm, it is the same: many times we may say we love the Lord but we may not take His person as our person, so we may argue with Him, struggle with Him, and wrestle with Him.

We need to realize that the eye has not seen, the ear has not heard, and it has not come up to man’s heart, the things that God has prepared for those who love Him (1 Cor. 2:9).

To love God is to set our entire being absolutely on Him; it is to let our entire being be occupied by Him and lost in Him.

Our whole being – spirit, soul, and body, together with all our strength, our mind, and our emotion, has to be set on the Lord.

When we set our whole being on Him and just love Him, we lovingly allow Him to occupy our entire being and we are lost in Him.

In this loving union with the Lord, He becomes everything to us and we are one with Him practically in our daily life. He must become everything to us.

If we love Christ, then He will become everything to us, for we set our entire being on Him.

It’s not enough to just say that we love the Lord; it’s not enough to promise to do this or that for Him.

We may still do many things for the Lord but apart from Him; we may do so many things in ourselves, by our strong soul and according to our strong will and desire.

But the Lord wants to be our life and person; He wants to occupy us, subdue us, and be everything to us so that we are one with Him practically in our daily life.

To love the Lord means that we subdue Him no longer; we let Him subdue us and occupy us, and we are one with Him to the extent that we become the same as He is.

To love the Lord Jesus is to appreciate Him, to direct our being toward Him, to open to Him, to enjoy Him, to give Him the first place, to be one with Him, to live Him, and to become Him (Matt. 26:6-13; 2 Cor. 3:16; Mark 12:30; Col. 1:18; 1 Cor. 6:17; Phil. 1:20-21).

May we give ourselves to just love the Lord by appreciating Him and by directing our being toward Him.

May we learn to open to Him and enjoy Him, giving Him the first place in all things.

As we live our Christian life, we love the Lord by seeking to be one with Him and to live Him.

Our loving the Lord will lead us to be one with Him, even becoming Him as His Shulammite, His counterpart.

Lord Jesus, we love You! We set our entire being absolutely on You. We let our entire being be occupied by You and lost in You. May You become everything to us and may we be one with You practically in our daily life. Amen, Lord, we come to You in Your word. We appreciate Your wonderful person. We open to You and we want to just enjoy You. You are so wonderful. We take You as our life and person. We take Your personality as our personality. We give You the first place, Lord Jesus, in all things by faith, for we want to be one with You and to live You. Amen, Lord Jesus, keep us in a loving relationship with You, yielding to You and allowing You to occupy and possess us until we are fully one with You!

God became Man to Court us and we are being Transformed to Court Him and become His Duplication, the Shulammite, His Counterpart

The book of Song of Songs is truly wonderful both poetically and in its application to our Christian experience.

The divine romance that God has with man is poetically portrayed in this book, and we see ourselves in the process that the loving seeker goes through until she becomes Solomon’s counterpart.

What the Lord desires to gain is the corporate Shulammite, the duplication of Himself as the real Solomon; we need to become His duplication.

Song of Songs 6:13 mentions the Shulammite; at this point in her experience, she has become Solomon’s duplication and counterpart to match him in life, nature, and expression.

Just as Eve was made out of Adam and was brought to Adam to match Adam for their married life (Gen. 2:20-23), the Shulammite went through a process to match Solomon for their marriage.

Similarly we today are in the process of becoming the same as Christ through the process of transformation in our loving relationship with the Lord to match Him as His Shulammite.

As lovers of Christ, we become the same as Christ in life, nature, expression, and function so that we may match Him for our marriage (2 Cor. 3:18; Rom. 8:29).

We are now in the process of loving the Lord and being transformed into His image, and we will become the New Jerusalem, the holy city as the bride of the Lamb, matching Him as His counterpart for our marriage.

The New Jerusalem will be a corporate Shulammite, including all of God’s chosen and redeemed people.

The New Jerusalem is the mingling of divinity with humanity; God and man are joined together in this wonderful city to be the bride of the Lamb.

Just as King Solomon became a country man to court a country girl to make her his palanquin, his duplication, so God in Christ became man to court us in order to make us the same as He is to match Him as His bride.

Amen, we are in the process to become His duplication today.

God in Christ became a man to court us, to woo us, and to bring us into the process of His organic salvation so that we may be transformed into His image and become the same as God in life, nature, expression, and function but not in His Godhead (Matt. 9:15; Rev. 19:7; Psa. 45:1-3, 9, 13-14). Wow!

He came to court us through what He was and did on earth, and today He continually comes to court us in our daily life, drawing us to Himself that we may love Him and set our whole being on Him.

The Bible reveals how God in a mysterious yet wonderful way became a man to court us, and how we in an organic way in our experience court Him by becoming the same as He is through the process of transformation.

God courts us and we court Him; we court Him by remaining in a personal, affectionate, private, and spiritual relationship with Him (Song of Songs 1:1-8; 2 Cor. 2:10; Exo. 33:11; Rom. 8:4, 6; 1 Cor. 2:15).

The consummation of this process of Him courting us and we courting Him is that we become the Shulammite, the reproduction of Christ.

The many lovers of Christ eventually become duplications of God in life and in nature but not in the Godhead.

Some Christians may say that it is too much for us to say that we become the same as God in life and nature, but this is what the Bible reveals to us as a fact.

The high peak of the divine revelation in the Bible is that God became man to make man God in life and nature but not in the Godhead so that God and man would be fully one, married together for eternity for God’s corporate expression.

We are becoming a corporate Shulammite, a corporate overcomer, to become His duplication.

For us to say that we are becoming the same as God in His Godhead is heresy and a great blasphemy, but for us not to believe that we become God in life and nature but not in the Godhead is unbelief.

God wants all His people to grow in life unto maturity and be His overcomers, the same as Christ in life, nature, expression, and function for the accomplishment of God’s eternal economy.

And we remain this process by having a personal, affectionate, private, and spiritual relationship with Him day by day in which we set our entire being on Him, are occupied with Him, and take Him as our everything.

What a glorious destiny we have, and what a wonderful process we are in right now to reach our destiny!

Thank You, Lord, for becoming a man to court us and draw us to Yourself. We respond to You in love, and we want to court You by being transformed into Your image to match You as Your counterpart. Amen, Lord, we love You. We want to have a personal, affectionate, private, and spiritual relationship with You. Keep us in a loving relationship with You until we are fully transformed and conformed to Your image. Bring us on to maturity so that we who were once sinners become the same as Christ in life, nature, expression, and function for the accomplishment of God’s eternal economy! Amen, Lord, we set our entire being on You and we take You as our everything in our daily life. Produce us as Your overcoming bride, Your Shulammite, to match You as Your counterpart!

References and Hymns on this Topic

• Sources of inspiration: the Word of God, my enjoyment in the ministry, a sharing by brother James Lee in the message, and portions from, The Conclusion of the New Testament, msgs. 45, 428 (by Witness Lee), as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, The Divine Dispensing of the Divine Trinity for the Divine Economy (2022 Thanksgiving Weekend Conference), week 2, entitled, Experiencing the Divine Dispensing of the Divine Trinity by Living in the Divine Romance.
• Further reading on this topic: recommending the article, What Does It Mean to Love God with All Your Heart? via Bibles for America blog.
• Hymns on this topic:
  – Lord, how we thank Thee for Thy Word, / Living and operative. / Oh, for Thy coming, we are stirred / Ever by it to live! / Lord, make us those who bring Thee back, / Who satisfy Thy heart. / Now by Thy Word supply our lack, / Make us Thy counterpart. (Hymns #1310 stanzas 5-6)
  – To realize and participate / In the deep and hidden things / God has ordained and prepared for us / Requires us not only to believe in Him / But also to love Him. / To fear God, to worship God, / And to believe in God, / That is, to receive God, / Are all inadequate; / To love Him is the indispensable requirement. / To love Him is the indispensable requirement. (Song on, To realize and participate)
  – God’s life and building can be seen / Within the Song of Songs; / He shows by types His seeking ones, / The Bride for whom Christ longs!… / As we eat Jesus, praise the Lord, / The transformation’s done, / Until at last, the work’s complete— / Christ and His Bride are one! (Hymns #1241 stanza 1 and 14)