Job and his friends probably lived in the age of Abraham, and the revelation of God in the Bible was in its primitive stage at that time; Job’s real need is God Himself, and God’s dealings with him were so that he would be stripped of his self-attainments and be emptied to seek God deeper […]
Living in the Jubilee by Continually Enjoying God as our Possession and Portion
We as believers in Christ are not God’s hired servants but His enjoying sons, and we can continually enjoy God as our possession until eternity. We were once prodigal sons, but we have returned to the Father, who is waiting for us eagerly. The proclamation of the jubilee in Luke 4 governs the central thought […]
Enjoying God as our Portion in His Living Word: God in Christ is Everything to us!
What the Word of God in the Bible is to us depends on what our attitude, condition, and heart we have when we come to it; if we come to get more knowledge and doctrines, the Bible is a book full of spiritual things and stories and prophecies, but if we come to the word […]
enjoying the many positive functions of the law as the word of God (Psalm 119)
When we read Psalm 119 carefully we realize how much the psalmist loved the word of God, the law, the precepts, the ordinances, and the commandments. Yes, on the one hand, the law of God / the word of God exposes us of our sin and preserves us unto Christ, but on the other hand, […]
If God in Christ is everything we need, why some Christians are still unhappy or joyless?
This is a very good question. As believers in Christ, we know from the Bible that when we repented and believed in the Lord, Christ became our allotted portion with the saints in the light (Col. 1:12), and God gave Christ to us as the fattened calf (Luke 15) for us to enjoy. We were […]