Eph. 1:9 Making known to us the mystery of His will according to His good
pleasure, which He purposed in Himself.
Rom. 8:4 That the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us,
who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the spirit.
All of us who are saved should pray that the Lord will open our eyes
not only to see corruption, sinfulness, and vanity but also to see something higher,
deeper, and more spiritual--to see that God's purpose is to mingle Himself with
man
The Scriptures reveal that before the ages, according to His good pleasure, He made a purpose, an intention, to gain His heart's desire, and He also made a plan to accomplish His purpose (3:11). In this plan He determined to work Himself into a group of people so that He might be their life and they might be His expression (1:5). Based on this divine determination, God created man. Man was destined to receive God, to be filled with God, to be saturated and permeated with God, and even to flow God out, so that he might be the living expression of God (Gen. 1:26; 2:8-10; John 7:37-39; Eph. 3:19; 1:22-23)
Christianity's concept is that if we love the Lord, we must work for Him. God never intended to call us merely to work for Him. God's intention is that we must first open
ourselves to Him that He may come into us to fill and flood us until He has taken
possession of every part of our being. Our whole being must be saturated and
permeated with Him. Then we will be one with Him. His intention is that we answer His call by opening ourselves to Him and saying, "Lord, here I am, not ready to work for You, but ready to be filled and possessed by You and to be one with You."
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