He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, far above all principality and power and might and dominion... and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places
in Christ Jesus. (Ephesians 1:20,21; 2:6)
Get a revelation of that to your heart by the Holy Spirit, and see its
emancipating power and its sustaining power. And that is for present revelation
to the heart. That is the thing which the Lord has been seeking to reveal to our
hearts more and more for a long time. The point is this, that, inasmuch as that
is the side of vision presented, you and I have to seek the Lord for spiritual
capacity to see it. And that leads us to that other fragment in the same letter,
from which we have just quoted: "That He would grant unto you a spirit of wisdom
and revelation in the knowledge of Him, the eyes of your hearts being
enlightened...." The eyes of your hearts being enlightened! That is the other
side of vision.
Will you pray this for yourself? Will you pray this for all
God's people? When the Lord's people get a new spiritual Holy Ghost revelation
of the Sovereign Headship of Christ, and begin to hold fast the Head, they let
go of everything that is local, and personal, and different, and scattered on
the earth. That is the place to which to come for unity. We cannot be at
variance with one another as the Lord's children if Christ is absolute Sovereign
Head in our lives. When the Lord Jesus gets the complete mastery as Head in our
lives, then all independence of action, and life, and all self-will,
self-direction, self-seeking, self-glory and
self-vindication will go. These are the things which set us apart from one
another. You pass from Isaiah, and as you do so you remember that you have the
results of such a vision seen in this man Isaiah. Such a vision immediately has
the effect of humiliating him to the dust. Oh, yes, we lose all our pride, all
our importance when once we see the Lord in glory. "Woe is me...." That
is humiliation! Then, after humiliation, there is consecration: "Lo, this hath
touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged." And,
after humiliation and consecration, there comes vocation: "...who will go for
Us?" "Then I said, Here am I; send me."