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The tree of life, how sweet the fruit,
With God as life complete.
I once was dead, but now I live,
Was starved, but now I eat.
With God as life complete.
I once was dead, but now I live,
Was starved, but now I eat.
2
’Twas God that brought me to the tree,
With Christ Himself as meat;
How precious did that tree become
When I began to eat.
With Christ Himself as meat;
How precious did that tree become
When I began to eat.
3
The Lord Himself is food to me,
He is my life supply;
He will my pure enjoyment be,
None else can satisfy.
He is my life supply;
He will my pure enjoyment be,
None else can satisfy.
4
I freely eat this living tree,
For eating is the way
To put God’s life inside of me,
To live by Him today.
For eating is the way
To put God’s life inside of me,
To live by Him today.
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EATING THE TREE OF LIFE
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The Lord needs to bring us into the understanding of the Scriptures in an inner and living way to see what is on His heart. After the creation of man, God presented Himself to man as the tree of life for man to eat. The only thing God desired man to do was to feed on Him, to partake of Him as the tree of life. He wanted man to take Him in as life, to learn how to live, how to exist, by the tree of life. Without eating, a person cannot exist. You may have life, but your life cannot last without your eating. In presenting Himself to man as the tree of life, God’s intention was for man to learn how to live by depending on God, by taking God as his daily supply and as his entire supply. Most of us eat three meals a day for our life supply. We live, exist, by eating. God did not command man to do anything but to eat. Man has to take care of his eating. If he eats in a right way, he will be right. If he eats in a wrong way, he will be wrong. If you eat something of life, you will have life. If you eat something of death, you will have death. The Christian life is not merely a matter of doing or working but a matter of partaking of God as the tree of life. This point was clearly made by the Lord Jesus in John 6 where He said that He was the bread of life (v. 35) and that the one who ate Him would live because of Him (v. 57).
The Tree of Life
Chapter 6 CWWL, 1965, vol. 2
(LSM)
g. Christ as the Tree of Life
Growing on the Two Sides
of the River of Water of Life
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Revelation 22:1 says, “He showed me a river of water of life, bright as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb in the middle of its street. ” Out of the throne of God and of the Lamb flows the river of water of life, and in this river the tree of life grows as a spreading vine. The river of water of life in the New Jerusalem signifies the consummated Spirit. Eventually, God’s Spirit will be a river. This river of water of life is in the city’s unique spiral street. In the whole city there is only one street. The street with the river spirals down the mountain to reach every part of the city and all its twelve gates. The street is the communication that ministers something to us. This is the ministering communication to water the whole city for the city’s drink. The tree of life, the life-supplying Christ, is a great vine growing on the two sides of the river to nourish the entire city for its food. God’s throne is for His government, the river is for our watering, and the tree of life is for our nourishment. The Triune God governs, serves, waters, and feeds the entire city.
The tree of life signifies God Himself in Christ as the life supply to us (Gen. 2:9 ; John 1:4 ; 14:6). This tree is the embodiment of life. According to the divine revelation, only God Himself is life in the entire universe. This God who is life is absolutely embodied in Christ (Col. 2:9). Christ is the tree of life, and in this tree of life is the full enjoyment of all the riches of life.
In brief, the tree of life in the Bible is a figure of the Triune God embodied in Christ to be the substance of the divine life. This tree is good for man to take and eat (Gen. 2:16 ; John 6:57b) that man may be constituted with God as the constituent of life. Thus, man and God become organically united and live together as one person (15:5 ; Phil. 1:20-21a). Colossians 3:4 says that Christ is our life. Therefore, we need to take Him as our supply, as the substance of the divine life, in which we can be victorious and overcoming, even reigning in His eternal life (Rom. 5:17). Eventually, we will be co-kings with Christ in the thousand-year kingdom (Rev. 3:21 ; 20:4).
The Conclusion of the
New Testament: Experiencing,
Enjoying, and Expressing Christ,
Message 433 (LSM)
Ho, Battor, Ghana
The Lord himself is food to me
He is my life supply
Lord Jesus we thank you
Round Rock, TX, United States
The Lord Himself is food to me,
He is my life supply;
He will my pure enjoyment be,
None else can satisfy.
Singapore
Thank you Lord I do not have to look at my crippled feet. I can freely eat You as the living tree!
Auckland, New Zealand
Thank you Lord that we can simply eat of this tree freely!
Auckland, New Zealand
Eating is the way!
Auckland, New Zealand
The Lord is for eating and enjoying!
Auckland, New Zealand
Thank You Lord for bringing us to the tree of life! Oh how precious is this living tree! Strengthen us to keep eating and drinking of You!
Auckland, New Zealand
The vision that God presents Himself to us as food ( the fruit from the tree of Life ) at both the beginning and end of the Bible is so profound