How to have life and reality?

Truth and Light

In order to see the truth of God, we need His enlightenment.

“Send out thy light and thy truth “ (Ps. 43.3). What does the light of
God shine upon? God uses light to shine upon His truth. This is of
great importance, since we know God’s truth through enlightenment.
Truth is not obtained through preaching; it comes from the
enlightenment of God.

Suppose you ask brothers and sisters if they have died in Christ.
Perhaps many will answer that they have died yet they do not
understand why this does not work in their lives. This is because they
have heard the teaching but have not seen the truth. Whoever sees the
reality is the one who has received the enlightenment.

A brother once testified that after God had opened his eyes to see
Romans 6, he was also given to see Ephesians 6. He saw his death as
a fact, but he also saw the victory of Christ as a fact. He was thus
made partaker of the victory of Christ. What he had long expected
was now something he at last realized he had already obtained.
Formerly he had hoped the Lord would give him victory; now he
praised the Lord, declaring that the Lord had already overcome. He
bore witness to the vast difference between this life and his old life.

Formerly, it had been admirations and expectations; today it was
reality. Not something to grasp at, but something already in hand.
Whenever light comes, a person will leap and cry aloud that it is
done!

Every Christian has seen light. He saw the light at least once while
he was being saved. When one is saved, he sees that he is not

expecting salvation or eternal life as something of the future; rather,
he praises and thanks God for what Christ has already done. In thus
seeing the light shining upon reality, one becomes a Christian. All
Christians have seen the light enlightening this reality. All spiritual
experience comes through light shining upon the truths.

Consequently, when truth is preached, it becomes doctrine if there
is no enlightenment. But when it is preached with the light of God
shining upon it, this truth becomes a revelation. Having revelation is
possessing truth. All who have doctrines have their minds full of
ideas; but all who have revelation have life and reality.