June 12
I tell you the truth, you
will all see heaven open and the angels of God going up and down on the Son of
Man, the One who is the stairway between heaven and earth (John 1:51 NLT).
We have seen Christ as the
true spiritual fulfillment of Jacob's ladder, which was set up on the earth,
and the top of which reached into heaven. Of this the Lord later said to
Nathanael: "Hereafter thou shalt see heaven opened, and the angels of God
ascending and descending upon the Son of Man." Now if the Lord Jesus is
the same, in effect, as the ladder of Jacob, then He is both in heaven and on
earth. He is on earth, and He is at the same time in heaven. In Him heaven and
earth are united, brought together, and whilst He is here on this earth for
purposes of expression and action, He is also in heaven. The point is that His
Life, and all His resources, were drawn from above. He was in touch with
inexhaustible resources, and resources which could never die, because they were
not of this earth, and could never be subject to the touch of corruption which
is characteristic of everything on this earth....
So then, to gather that up in
one word, it means that for our lives and for our service, our ministry, our
heavenly vocation, there are, in union with Christ, resources at our disposal
which are heavenly, inexhaustible, and incorruptible. This is the great secret
of strength. We have seen something of what those resources are, and of how
they operate; of their value for spirit, soul, and body; mind, heart, and will.
Not on our own charges are we commissioned of the Lord, but He Who commissions
places His own resources behind His commissioned and His commission.
This photograph is by Joe Sina.
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