詩歌-Divine Romance V.1
How could a country girl like me
Become Your match — Your bride to be?
You’re holy and You are divine
But I’m fallen and human.
Without You, Lord, I have no chance
To be like You in this romance.
But You chose me ere the world began
Nothing could change Your plan.
*Chorus
This divine romance
Is My heart’s deep plan.
I became a lowly man
To court My country girl.
Nothing could deter,
Nothing can alter
My eternal love for her;
I’ll gain My country girl.
Source: http://www.hymnal.net/en/hymn.php/lb/82#ixzz2dVeoXnFT
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Morning Revival
2013 Summer Training Crystallization-Study of
GENESIS (1)
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WEEK 6 — DAY 1 ››
Morning
Nourishment
Gen. 2:9 "And out of the ground Jehovah God caused
to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food, as well as
the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of
good and evil."
John 15:1 "I am the true vine, and My Father is the
husbandman."
6:48 "I am the bread of life."
The second step of God's procedure in fulfilling His purpose
was to place the created man in front of the tree of life, which signifies the
Triune God embodied in Christ as life to man in the form of food. God's placing
man in front of the tree of life indicates that God wanted man to receive Him
as man's life by eating Him organically and assimilating Him metabolically,
that God might become the very constituent of man's being. According to John
1:1, 4, life is in the Word, who is God Himself. This life—the divine, eternal,
uncreated life of God—is Christ (John 11:25; 14:6; Col. 3:4a), who is the
embodiment of God (Col. 2:9). The tree of life grows along the two sides of the
river of water of life (Rev. 22:1-2), indicating that it is a vine. Since
Christ is a vine tree (John 15:1) and is also life, He is the tree of life. He was
processed through incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection that man might
have life and live by eating Him (John 10:10b; 6:51, 57, 63). (Gen. 2:9, footnote
2)
Today's Reading
The tree of life was in the midst of the garden. If we study
the record of Genesis 2, we will realize that, apart from the tree of knowledge
of good and evil, no tree is mentioned by name except the tree of life. We do
not know the names of the other trees, but we do know that there was a tree
called the tree of life. This shows that the tree of life was the center.
The tree of life is the center of the universe. According
to the purpose of God, the earth is the center of the universe, the garden
of Eden is the center of the earth, and the
tree of life is the center of the garden of Eden. We must realize that the whole universe is centered on this
tree of life: nothing is more central and
crucial to both God and man than this tree. It is very meaningful to see man in the garden standing before the tree
of life.
This tree enables man to receive God as life. How can we prove this? The following books of the Bible reveal that God is
life. Therefore, the tree of life in the
garden was the indicator that God intends to be our life in the form of food. One day, according to the Gospel of John, God
came in the flesh (John 1:1, 14). In Him was
life (John 1:4). The life displayed by the tree of life in Genesis 2 was the life incarnated in Jesus, God in
the flesh. Jesus told us that He Himself is
life (John 14:6). Furthermore, John 15 tells us that Christ is a tree, the vine tree. On the one hand, He is a
tree; on the other hand, He is life. When we
put together all these portions from John, we see that Jesus is the tree of life. Jesus said that He is the bread
of life, meaning that He has come to us as the
tree of life in the form of food.
As the almighty God, Jesus is high, but when He came to us as food He was lowly. He was a loaf of bread. He was even the
crumbs under the table (Matt. 15:21-27). The
very Jesus who came to us as life in the form of food
was not tall and great; He was small and lowly. Anything we eat must be smaller than we are; if it is not, we cannot take
it into us. Even if our food is larger than we
are, it must be cut into pieces small enough to eat. Thus, Jesus came to us as life in the form of food. He said, “I
am the bread of life,” and, “He who eats Me,
he also shall live because of Me” [John 6:48, 57]. God in the Son is the tree of life that is good for food. Day
after day we can feed on Him. We can eat Him.
The tree of life typifies Christ who imparts life to man and who pleases and satisfies man (cf. John 15:1; Exo. 15:25).
Christ imparts divine life into us, pleases
us, and satisfies us. Many of us can testify of this. We can say, “Hallelujah! Jesus has imparted life to me. He
satisfies me all the time.” This is the tree
of life. (Life-study of Genesis, pp. 140-141)＊外語追求組聚集時間：
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