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on the positive side, how to pursue the growth in life; on the negative side,
what may frustrate or hinder our growth in life causing it to be abnormally
slow. We will begin with the positive side.
In Order To Grow in Life for God’s Building, Our Needing to Love
the Lord, Take Heed to Our Spirit, and Guard Our Heart with All
Vigilance to Stay on the Pathway of Life
In order to grow in life for God’s building, we must love the Lord,
take heed to our spirit, and guard our heart with all vigilance to stay on the
pathway of life. I would like to say something about staying on the pathway
of life. There is a path. The other day we had a meeting with the full-time
trainees and shared with them concerning the path that we have to follow our
whole life. There are lessons that we need to learn, which I like to call “life
lessons.” I would like to share with you the first point, the primary point,
which is to keep ourselves in the divine romance. We need to be people who
love the Lord. When you got up this morning, did you tell the Lord Jesus that
you love Him? We should be in a romance. The divine romance as revealed in
the Song of Songs is progressive. It is always moving forward until we reach
the end where we have the building, the city, and the bride. That is the end of
the divine romance. We need to be in this divine romance all the time. That is
part of the pathway of life.
Another point I would like to share is the need to learn how to have
real fellowship with one another, that is, honest, genuine, and transparent
fellowship. We know that it is not easy; that is why it is a lifelong lesson. But
for the sake of the oneness and of the building, we have to learn this lesson.
I am burdened by this because I have been with brothers, who have been in
the church life and in the eldership for decades, but still do not know how to
fellowship. They know how to argue and how to present opinions, but they do
not know how to fellowship. Let us not remain this way. Let us get onto this
pathway of life and exercise together to have the oneness and the one accord.
May we endeavor to learn how to have real and genuine fellowship.
If We Want Christ’s Life to be Unhindered in Us, Our Needing to
Experience the Breaking of the Cross, the Killing Death of Christ in
the All-Inclusive Spirit of Christ as the Spirit of Glory, So That the
Following Obstacles within Us Can Be Dealt With and Removed