Serve God in Fellowship While Seeing His Face
In Revelation 22:3-4 the description of life in New Jerusalem includes, “And the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and His slaves will serve Him; and they will see His face, and His name will be on their foreheads.”
Notice that all the phrases in Revelation 22:1-5 are connected by and. All these phrases are related to one another; none are independent. All are part of the one experience of living in New Jerusalem. In 22:3 we serve God and the Lamb; in 22:4 we see His face and His name is on us, proclaiming that we belong to Him.
All of our work for the Lord must be led by fellowship…. We can do His work only after we see God. We should not be doing the work and constantly regretting—this is not fellowship. May God deliver us from any service which is not in fellowship….We should never feel proud, self-content, or self-sufficient upon finishing the work. May God save us and deliver us from any kind of service which does not issue from fellowship and which is not in fellowship….God’s servants will not only have fellowship with Him, but “His name will be on their forehead.” This is their testimony.
All Christian work we do and all our activity should originate in fellowship with God, be done while fellowshipping with Him, and should result in His glory. He is the “before,” the “during,” and the “after.” We must exercise for this three-fold connection now but in New Jerusalem it will be permanent and continuous, with our seeing His face and His name on us
Now & New Jerusalem: Behold His Face (7)
* From chapter 5 of The Glorious Church by Watchman Nee, published and © by Living Stream Ministry, available at www.ministrybooks.org/ and www.livingstream.com/en/the-church/8012401-glorious-church-the.html.
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Posted by Don on September 2, 2022
