THE HEAVENLY LIFE Part 1

The wisdom of the fathers

THE HEAVENLY LIFE????Part 1

God said to His people when they were about to enter into Canaan that it would be “like the days of heaven upon earth” if they fully submitted to His way of life. (Deut. 11:21) The true Canaan-life—the life of promise—is available to every believer in this age of fulfillment. The land of Canaan represents the Kingdom-life that must come down from heaven and be established within the heart. In this heavenly life we begin to receive all our spiritual sustenance from God. “This is the bread which came down from heaven…He who eats this bread will live forever.” (John 7:58) This food from heaven continues to satisfy our soul as we live for God’s will alone. My food {the true source of spiritual sustenance} is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work. (John 4:34)?(John 6:35)

?We are in the age of fulfillment when Christ’s Kingdom-life can be fully established within our heart. “Then the nations will know that I am the Lord, declares the Sovereign Lord, when I show myself holy through you before their eyes.” (Ezk. 36:23 NIV) He comes to enable us to do His will here on earth with the same submissive nature that it is done in heaven. (Matt 6:10) When this Kingdom-life of “righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit” has been fully established, it becomes “like the days of heaven upon the earth.”

There will someday be “a new heaven and a new earth” where everyone lives in “righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.” But it is not necessary to wait for the Lord to return in His full glory to begin enjoying His heavenly life. He has been coming to individual believers and increasing the number of people who have entered into His eternal Kingdom-life for the last two thousand years. This is the true message of the Gospel.?(Mark 1:14-15)

(from "The Heavenly Life" by G.D. Watson)