Our Visiting God
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Bible Verses~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1Pet 2:12 Having your manner of life excellent among the
Gentiles, so that in the matter concerning which they speak
against you as evildoers they may, by your good works, as they
see them with their own eyes, glorify God in the day of His
visitation.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Words of Ministry~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Greek word translated "visitation" is episkopes. The basic
meaning of this word is to observe, inspect, oversee, look
upon. The day of visitation is the day when God will look upon
His pilgrim people, as a shepherd over his wandering sheep. He
will look upon them and will become the Shepherd and Overseer
of their souls (2:25). Hence, the day of visitation is the
time of God's overseeing care. To make the matter simple, we
may say that the day of God's visitation is the day God comes
to visit us. When God pays us a visit, that is the day of
visitation.
I can testify that…deep within I often have the feeling that
God is visiting us in His overseeing care. In meeting after
meeting, God comes to pay us a visit. Many of us can testify
that we have experienced Him as the divine Visitor in recent
days.
What does God intend to do when He comes to visit us? Does He
come to judge us? No, instead of coming to judge us, God
visits us for the purpose of looking upon us and observing how
we are doing and what we are doing. It may seem that He says
to us, "How is everything with you? What are you doing? Is
everything all right?" God's visitation is like that of a
shepherd. It is also the visit of an overseer. This is the
reason Peter speaks of the Lord as the Shepherd and Overseer
of our souls (2:25). Our Savior is the Shepherd and Overseer.
He shepherds us and oversees us in order to take good care of
us.
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(c) 2007 Living Stream Ministry. Bible verses are taken from
the Recovery Version of the Bible and Words of Ministry, from
Witness Lee, Life-study of First Peter, pp. 168-169. Both are
published by Living Stream Ministry, Anaheim, CA.
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