Weekly Pursuit – Week 3 of February
Verses:
Neh. 8:8 “And they read in the book, in the law of God, interpreting and giving the sense, so that they understood the reading.”
Excerpts:
In order to be reconstituted, we need to come back to God by coming back to His law, that is, His word. No one can come back to God without coming back to His word. We all have our own kind of disposition and habitual behavior, but God is able to reconstitute us through His word. This is why we need to read the Bible. God’s word gradually changes our mind and our way of thinking. The word of God is one with the Spirit. When the word of God works within us, the Spirit, through the word, spontaneously dispenses God’s nature with God’s element into our being. We may not even be aware that such a dispensing is taking place within us. By this way we are
reconstituted.
God’s intention with Israel was to have on earth a divinely constituted people to be His testimony. In order for God’s people to be His testimony, they had to be reconstituted with the word of God. Under Ezra and Nehemiah the returned people of Israel were collectively constituted by and with God through His word to be a nation as God’s testimony.
The word of God is the solid base for the Spirit of God, who is God Himself, to dispense God’s element into our being to cause us to be constituted with God. This should be our personal experience day by day. When we come together, we then need to read even more of the Word of God. To do this is to come together according to the way of the divine constitution. (Life-study of Nehemiah, msg. 3)
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