Finding the Purpose of my Christian Life
How can I experience the Lord in a constant way? How can I know Him in a real and living way? What is the goal of the Christian life? What am I supposed to be doing here on earth as a Christian? Where is a place where Christians are living in oneness? These were the questions I had as a fifteen-year-old girl. I had grown up in a Christian home, for which I am very grateful. My parents led me to receive the Lord as my Savior when I was nine years old, but at fifteen I had these questions for which I was seeking answers.
Through various circumstances the Lord brought me, one evening, to a meeting of the local church in Spokane. In that meeting John 10:10 became alive to me. “I am come that you may have life and have it more abundantly.” Many were giving their testimonies of how this abundant life isn't material blessings but is the very divine and eternal life of God which we as believers possess and can enjoy. The lights came on in my being and through the meeting I realized that I don't have to wait until I die, but that I can enjoy this eternal life now. The more I enjoy this life, the more it will transform me and the more I will discover that this life is an abundant supply in my daily living.
As I began to meet with the believers in the local church, I was very impressed with their lives. They all had normal jobs, like nursing or teaching. I could see that Christ was really their Lord in all of their daily living, at home and at work. This really attracted me. Most of all I noticed they were of such one accord. They didn't have certain conditions for receiving me or one another. Their focus was Christ Himself and how to contact Him as the life-giving Spirit (1 Corinthians 15:45b) and experience Him in our human spirit (John 4:24). Through their speaking, my eyes were opened by the Lord to see that as there is only one Body of Christ, that oneness has to be and can be practical in many local churches all over the earth.
I noticed they had books by Watchman Nee and Witness Lee. I had read The Normal Christian Life by Watchman Nee. I was very happy to find out that there were a lot more books and that Watchman Nee and Witness Lee were coworkers who were fully given to the Lord to minister for the building up of the Body of Christ (Ephesians 4:12). When I read their books, I discovered that all the puzzles in the Bible were fully put together. Everything was made clear by their ministry in the light of God's eternal plan. The center of His plan is that our Triune God wants to have a corporate group of people to receive, contain and express His divine eternal life. I discovered that everything I thought I needed to wait for, I can experience and enjoy now.
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