On Becoming God (In life and in naturebut not in the Godhead))

God, who is love, operating in the principle of incarnation to reach man.

God's purpose is to be throughly united, mingled and incorporated with man for His dwelling place. Yet religion, would argue God is high and mighty, and man is small and weak. How can the two possibly become one? It is through the principle of incarnation. The principle of incarnation is that God reaches man as a man. This principle first operated in our prototype, the Lord Jesus, then it operates in us, through us and out of us to fulfill the same thing that it did in the Lord Jesus, that is to reach others. Therefore this enjoyment will be composed of three parts from the aspect of the principle of incarnation, that is, God coming into, working through and being expressed out of us.

This first happened with the Lord Jesus. In the birth of the Lord Jesus, God was born into man (Jn 1:14). In an unprecedented way, Divinity was brought into Humanity (Matt 1:20, Luke 1:35, Col 1:19). In this one was the expression, explanation, and manifestation of God. It was through this one that God's attributes and His infinite riches were for the first time, experiencable by man as grace and reality (Jn 1:17). When men beheld Jesus, they beheld and knew God. Yet how specifically was God expressed and defined? It was through Jesus' human virtues. It was in this Man that God had finally reached men. God in His Divinity dwells in unapproachable light (1Tim 6:16). Yet God in Humanity was approachable. It is in this Humanity which did not lived its own life, but died to itself (Matt 3:!6), and lived to God (Jn 6:57) that God could be expressed. Although those at that time looked at Jesus and saw a man, they also sensed something "aromatically" different with this one. Some who had received the revelation, could even see that this one was God Himself (Jn 20:28).

Then through His death and resurrection, He became the Spirit who can enter into man, He brought His disciples into a deeper mingling with God. He brought His disciples to know the Father as the source love and light through the continual fellowship as the Spirit (1Jn 1:1-3). It is in and through this fellowship that the disciples and the Triune God are fully mingled for the building up of the house of God (Rev 22).

That is the principle, now comes the application. Just as God reached man in man and through man by being fully mingled and one with that man such that man expressed His infinite attributes in His aromatic virtues, God again is after this same kind of man in order to reach men. Once again, I would like to reiterate that the principle of incarnation is that God reaches man as a man. One may ask, “what is man”. Man according to God's creation is of three parts, body, soul, and spirit (2Thess 5:23). The spirit is the center and the starting point of God's union with man. However God must gain man's soul, the organ of expression in order to reach men. Our soul is composed of three parts mind (), emotion (), and will(). God must gain each of these parts in order to be expressed. God must get into our mind by means of our understanding in order to renew it, and God as love must get into our emotion. In His giving of His opinion, God was expressed as never before. God is not fully expressed until He can find a man who would afford Him free reign in His soul, to make it His home, to remodel it, to shape it as He sees fit, to saturate it. Our soul is our chief expressing organ. God may be born in us as the person in our spirit, but if He cannot spread into our soul, His expression in us is very limited.

We must afford the Lord the nutrients of our humanity that may have a way to be fully one with us for His building.