How wonderful – God is beautified in His church, and the church is the house of His beauty! By putting Himself into us as the Spirit and the word, Christ becomes our beauty, brightness, and splendor!
When we get into the Word of God, as Eph 5:26-27 says, we are being washed, cleansed, purified, and being made glorious! The Word of God is a beautifying Word – eliminating all the wrinkles, spots, or any such things – so that we as the church may be holy and without blemish!
The more we are open to the Lord for His continual dispensing into us – the more Christ dispenses Himself into us as life and everything to us – the more we become bright, beautiful, and glorious! Actually, Christ becomes our beauty and glory – Him living in us is our beauty and glory!
By having Christ live in us, we become God’s glory and beauty – God becomes our beauty so that we may become His beauty! In this way, God and His chosen people are glorified and beautified in mutuality!
Here is what Isaiah 60:21 says,
Then all your people will be righteous; they will possess the land forever, the branch of My planting, the works of My hands, that I may be beautified.
This is what the Body of Christ is today – in the corporate constitution of the Body of Christ (which Body is composed of millions of members built up together and functioning in harmony) there is much beauty, excellency, and virtue! Just imagine: millions of members of the Body of Christ – millions of believers built up together – have been composed together and constituted together to become members of one another.
Herein lies the glory and the beauty, the excellency and the virtues: in the oneness and the building up of the organic Body of Christ! God is indeed glorified in and through the Body of Christ – here the saints serve in harmony, with humility and selflessness, and it is just beautiful!
This is what the Lord is after – a built up Body, even a prepared and spotless Bride, where there is BEAUTY and GLORY! Today, as we read the Word of God and pray over His Word with an open spirit, we as the church are being beautified to be the house of His beauty (Isa. 60:7) and the corporate expression of the Triune God in oneness!
Hallelujah, our destiny is to become the New Jerusalem, the glorious expression of the Triune God – the most beautiful thing in the universe! Of course, our beauty is not of ourselves, it is not our doing or our living – the beauty of the Bride is the reflection of the Bridegroom!
We are simply receiving the dispensing of the Triune God into us every day by getting into His Word, and His element is being deposited into us – making us beautiful and glorious! Our beauty is NOT our behavior – our only beauty is the reflection of Christ, the shining out of Christ from within us!
This is what everyone loves to see, and this is what God wants – What God desires and Christ appreciates in the church is the expression of Christ in a group of built up people! Nothing less than this will meet His standard or meet His appreciation! We want nothing less, and we desire to be nothing different than this!
[sharing inspired from the Life-Study of Isaiah and the Life-Study of Ephesians, as quoted in the Holy Word of Morning Revival on the Crystallization-Study of Isaiah(2). Read this portion in Spanish via, Estamos llegando a ser la casa de Su Gloria al recibir Su impartición diaria en Su Palabara]
Lord, gain what You are after in us! Keep us open to Your dispensing day by day! We want to get into Your Word in a consistent and diligent way! Wash us and cleanse us in Your Word! Purify our entire inner being! Lord, add Your element to us and have a way to live in us and be expressed in us! O, Lord, how we long to see You lived out as the reality of the Body of Christ! Gain a beautiful Bride for Your satisfaction! Beautify us, Lord, as the house of Your beauty, so that You may be beautified! Purify the church and sanctify her through the washing of the water in the Word!
