The Spirit is Moving Man to Receive God’s Breaking How does God build Himself into each part of our being? God first needs to break our thoughts, ideas, preferences, views, choices, and opinions. How much God can build Himself into us depends on how much God has broken us. For example, suppose a brother would like to arrange his children’s marriages. The brother is indeed a saved person, having God’s Spirit and God’s life within. But when he is dealing with his children regarding the matter of marriage, he does not give any ground to God in his thoughts and views. When he worships God, God has the ground, but when he considers his children’s marriages, he puts God aside. In the matter of his children’s marriages, his thoughts and insight do not have God’s element. Therefore, in this matter he does not have God. This brother may have very little of God’s element in him, so God’s desire is to build more of His element into him. In the brother’s insight, thinking, and determination, he still may lack the element of God. Therefore, God has no ground in his view of his children’s marriages. What can God do in such a situation? If God has mercy on him and is gracious to him, He will continue His building work within him. How will God do this building work in him? He will do it by breaking his insight and thinking. First, God must move him through the Spirit like a doctor giving an injection. While he is being punctured, he may have a sense of pain, which may remind him that his thinking and determination for his children’s marriages have all been from himself and without God. The Spirit then may move and pierce him a little more so that he will feel sorry, mournful, and regretful. During this time, if he humbles himself and receives the piercing and moving of the Spirit, God’s element will be built up in him more and more. On the day of Pentecost, the Spirit moved in men, and many of them felt their hearts being pricked (Acts 2:37). When a doctor gives injections to people, they feel the pricking of the needle. The work of the Spirit inside us is very often like the piercing of a needle. His particular moving pierces our thoughts and preferences. One day the Spirit will pierce our view concerning our children’s marriages and our plans for our career and our future. He will be like a doctor giving an injection, piercing our skin and flesh, so that we will have a sense of pain and feel mournful. If we are willing to humble ourselves and receive the moving of the Spirit, then the Spirit will inject God’s intention into our thinking, determination, and preferences. Then our thoughts and views toward our children’s marriages will give more ground to God and have more of God’s element. Thus, God will do a further building work in us. With the increase of God’s element within us, God’s life will then expand and grow. Extracted from “The Way for a Christian to Mature in Life“ (15), a collection of messages given by Brother Witness Lee in Taipei in 1955, published by Living Stream Ministry
Posted on: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 21:07:36 +0000
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