Friday 9 August 2013

Walking With A Limp

A word from Watchman Nee...


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By faith Jacob ... worshipped, leaning upon the top of his staff. Heb 11:21

How striking that the New Testament writer should choose this mark of apparent weakness to depict Jacob's faith. For Penuel, with its crippling divine touch, had indeed spelled an end to the supplanter with all his superabundant natural energy. In his place there stood now this gracious prince with God – and worshipped.

I was sitting one day at supper with a young brother to whom the Lord had been speaking on this very question of our natural energy. He said to me, "It is a blessed thing when you know the Lord has met you and dealt with you in a fundamental way, and that disabling touch has been received." There was a plate of biscuits between us on the table, and I picked one up and broke it in half as though to eat it. Then fitting the two pieces together again carefully, I said, "It looks all right, but it is never quite the same again, is it? When once your back is broken, you will yield ever after to the slightest touch from God."


From: Nee, W. (1965). A Table In The Wilderness: Daily Meditations from the Ministry of Watchman Nee, London: Victory Press.

Keith Green also touched on discipleship and the breaking of the Lord in his Song for Josiah. You can listen by clicking the following link.


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