PARENTHOOD
a divine stewardship

Many sisters are too worried about their husbands and their children. This occupies their prayer time very much, so that when they pray, they ask the Lord to take care of their husbands and children and to protect them from accidents. Other sisters pray earnestly about being a good mother and a good wife, asking the Lord for help and patience. The Lord surely knows how to take care of our husband and our children. We should just praise Him and look to Him. By eating Him, contacting Him, and enjoying Him, we will be filled with Him. He will fill us with joy, peace, energy, and His refreshing life. Then all day we will be persons full of Christ.

At noontime when you feel that you need lunch, go to the Lord again, saying, "Lord, it is time for me to come to You again. I am coming to You to be fed." Look to the Lord, wait on Him, and take Him into you as your supply. You will be refreshed again and again. During the evening time you can go to Him yet a third time. You may say, "Lord, now it is dinner time. This is the third meal of the day. I can still take something more of You into me as food." If we enjoy the Lord day by day in such a way, we will see what kind of powerful Christians we will be. We will accomplish many things without any self-effort. The issue will be the overflow of Christ. We will bear fruit again and again. This is the Christian life.

I hope that we will have a change in our way of being Christians. It is not the way of knowledge, teaching, doctrine, work, or toil, but the way of life. We must give up all of the other ways and take the way of life, realizing that the Triune God is everything to us in Christ and as the Spirit. Then Christ will be our life and everything to us. This very Christ now indwells us, and we are in Him. We need to realize this glorious fact and take it by faith. Learn to always stay in contact with this living Person who is Christ Himself....
Witness Lee, The Enjoyment of Christ for His Increase, pp. 17-26; Printed by Living Stream Ministry.

APPLICATION

1. In your own words, explain the meaning of the statement that God "wants to enter into us, be digested by us, and become our very constituent."

2. How has the Lord prepared Himself so that He can give Himself to us and become in our being the very constitutional element by which we live?

3. "The secret [of being a parent] is to practice staying in contact with Christ continuously." Suggest three to five practices you might use to help you stay in contact with Christ continuously. Seek to utilize five or ten minutes each day to implement a few of these practices.