"Our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace." - Daniel 3:17
How does the Church reach her goal? Only by traveling the pathway from pressure to enlargement, from poverty to enrichment. You ask: What do we mean by enlargement through pressure? When three are shut into a furnace and the three become four, that is enlargement through pressure. Some find a furnace rather close quarters for three, so they seek a way of escape; others accept the limitation, and in accepting it, make room for a Fourth. Not to let difficulties shut us out from God, but to let them shut us in to Him, that is enlargement through pressure. Some, through pressure, reach God's end; others come to an end in the pressure. Some die in straitness; others, through straitness, find fullness of life. Some murmur when trials befall, finding in them only restraint, limitation and death; others praise God for the trials, and in doing so discover the pathway to enlargement, liberation and abundance of life.
A Table In The Wilderness (Watchman Nee 主僕倪柝聲弟兄)
Read the Scriptures: Daniel 3
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Monday, August 13, 2007
Monday, June 25, 2007
Ten Days
"Ye shall have tribulation ten days." - Revelation 2:10
What is the meaning of this 'ten days'? When Abraham's servant wanted to carry off Rebecca, her brother and mother requested that she stay with them ten days. When Daniel and his friends would not allow themselves to be defiled by the king's food, they asked the officer in charge to try them for ten days. When David was humiliated by Nabal, it happened that after ten days the Lord struck Nabal and he died. So the words must have a meaning in the Bible. It seems possible that they indicate 'just a short time.' Is this the Lord's meaning in his message to the church at Smyrna?
He seems to be saying, first, that there are certain days marked out for our suffering, and that those days are calculated by Him. They are inescapable, but after they are over we shall be freed. On the other hand, He seems to affirm that the trials are brief. The ten days are but a short time. No matter what tribulation you pass through before God, it will soon be past. Be faithful therefore. He awaits you with a crown of life.
The Joyful Heart (Watchman Nee 主僕倪柝聲弟兄)
Read the Scriptures: Revelations 2:8-11; 1 Samuel 25
What is the meaning of this 'ten days'? When Abraham's servant wanted to carry off Rebecca, her brother and mother requested that she stay with them ten days. When Daniel and his friends would not allow themselves to be defiled by the king's food, they asked the officer in charge to try them for ten days. When David was humiliated by Nabal, it happened that after ten days the Lord struck Nabal and he died. So the words must have a meaning in the Bible. It seems possible that they indicate 'just a short time.' Is this the Lord's meaning in his message to the church at Smyrna?
He seems to be saying, first, that there are certain days marked out for our suffering, and that those days are calculated by Him. They are inescapable, but after they are over we shall be freed. On the other hand, He seems to affirm that the trials are brief. The ten days are but a short time. No matter what tribulation you pass through before God, it will soon be past. Be faithful therefore. He awaits you with a crown of life.
The Joyful Heart (Watchman Nee 主僕倪柝聲弟兄)
Read the Scriptures: Revelations 2:8-11; 1 Samuel 25
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