Yesterday, I received a long email from a China Coworker. I jokingly told my wife: “I need to get a machine to read it for me, becoz till now (except for reading Chinese Bible and Chinese Sermons), I am still quite handicapped with reading long Chinese letters/essays. It juz takes up too much of my concentration and I will miss out words in between. So much so for being one of the notorious student in Chinese classes since primary school days.” My wife responded: “So I am that ‘machine’ who is gonna read it for you.” (My wife has a love for and fluency with Chinese since young. She could read Chinese novels, mind you!). Then she added: “Everything that I am till now is to complement you, so that you can serve the Chinese community (and the Kingdom) effectively.” And I asked a vital question: “Then would you be fully contented with that?” “I think should be…” She replied smilingly.
Somehow, this morning, it brought me thinking way back in my life where I come a long way understanding what the Promise of God meant to be. It wasn’t easy for me to be contented with life and to be truly dignified about what God made me to be. It all boils down to one word in my Christian life: “Am I Covenanted in Christ Jesus?” I’ve spent a great deal of time thinking about how to be a better person, a more successful worker, a more perfect husband, a more responsible father, a more powerful minster, etc, without understanding what exactly is “Covenanted”.
Many Christians only know abt God abstractly and theoretically, but they are clearly not empowered as a Christian. And that is becoz they are ignorant about the Covenant. The Covenant (or Promise of God) tells us what God says about us as Christians. And we have to see and feel the right way about ourselves through the Covenant, if we wanna understand what is empowering Christian living.
The Covenant tells us how glorious we are in Christ Jesus, how different we are with the World, and how blessed and powerful we are as people living in this Era. In short, the Almighty God is with us to bless this whole Era and all people around us! It was what God has told Daniel <Dan 1:1-8> and Joseph <Ge 39:1-6> about even when they were in captivity or slavery. It was what God has told Abraham <Ge 12:1-3> about when he went as an alien to the Land of Canaan. It is what God tells us every morning regardless of how insignificant or ordinary we feel abt yourself. Without the Covenant, we’d never know our FULL WORTH and live our FULL POTENTIAL.
But many Christians are ignorant to what the Covenant says. They’re constantly being deceived by their own feelings or worldly standards. That’s why they looked at man’s condition, success, positions, ideals, looks, etc. Be it so, God still never leaves His pple. God never leaves His chosen ones. Yet, it is absolutely the will of God to make His Covenant clear to a few in every Era, so that they could rise up to restore a Godly culture and impact this Era. And these pple who could understand the Covenant of God are known as the Remnants.
If you’re interested about who the Remnants are, you could hear this message: Who are the Remnants?
