To prepare for life, is to begin to LIVE

First day of the New Year happens to be the first Lord’s day of the year. It’s just so great to have God as the first thing I enjoy this year. I went to the meeting and then to the video training and I just want to share my enjoyment from the first meeting. Now, most of you would probably go “WHAAT?!” or just stop reading after the first point, but it’s okay. I just want to flow out what I’ve enjoyed! You know, when you find something so great, you just want to share it with everyone…

I really enjoy that my goal needs to be the fullest enjoyment of Christ, the fullest gaining of Christ. I need to be pure in heart. To be pure in heart is to have God as my only goal. Seeking anything other than God is vanity. I just felt so convicted during the meeting that my heart is not pure. I want so many things in life other than Christ. Even though I pray, “Lord have the first place in my heart,” He’s probably one of the last thing on my list. Oh Lord Jesus!

Many times I say to the Lord that I want Him to have the first place in everything that I do. I want Him to have the preeminence in my life. I guess, I didn’t fully understand what I was saying. In the video training today, I was just so impressed with the twelve points that the brother shared about this matter.

1) To love Him with the first love is to regard Him as everything in our life. To consider His love for us and our love for Him to always be fresh.

2) To repent and do the first works. The first works are works that issue from the first love, our love for God. (Rev 2:5)

3) For God to have the preeminence, we need to drink the Lord as the source of living water.

4) We need to eat of Him as the tree of life. Eating is enjoying Christ as our life supply. It is through our loving the Lord that we enjoy the Lord.

5) To give God the first place is to contact God, receive God and enjoy God. When we are not enjoying God, mire and mud comes out of our being (grossness).

6) We need to take Him as our centrality and universality (Colossians 1:17, 18). Our personal universe should be held by Christ and we need to take Him as our center even in the small things.

7) We need to be well pleasing to Him, please the Lord in all things. The way to please Him is by growing and by walking with God just as Enoch walked with God (II Corinthians 5:9, Colossians 1:10, Hebrew 11:5-6)

8) To have a clear sky with God’s throne above it. This means that there is nothing between us and the Lord. We need to be filled with His ruling presence and allow Him to reign in us (Ezekiel 1:22-26)

9) We need to Hold Him as the Head. This means that we need to enthrone Him as the ruler and decider of everything in our life (Colossians 2:19)

10) We need to let God be our guide regarding every detail of our life. Let Him counsel even the little things like the way we dress, how we comb our hair …

11) We need to give the flow of the Lord Jesus a preeminence. The flow comes from the throne, bringing the throne with it. In our daily living, we need to have this flow (Ezekiel 47:1, Revelation 22:1-2)

12) We need to be a captive of Christ, let the Lord conquer our entire being. We need to be moved by our spirit. (II Corinthians 2:13-14)

Lord Jesus, make me one who gives you the first place in all things. I pray that You would conquer me so that You can be the center of my life. Make my love for you fresh everyday and I pray that you would be my first love.

-vyl lyn-