Will you please turn to the Gospel of John, Chapter 4?
God is a Spirit: and they that worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.
For ye received not the spirit of bondage again unto fear; but ye received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
The Spirit Himself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are children of God:
and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with Him, that we may be also glorified with Him.
That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we beheld, and our hands handled, concerning the Word of life
(and the life was manifested, and we have seen, and bear witness, and declare unto you the life, the eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us);
that which we have seen and heard declare we unto you also, that ye also may have fellowship with us: yea, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ:
and these things we write, that our joy may be made full.
Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God abideth in him, and he in God.
And we know and have believed the love which God hath in us. God is love; and he that abideth in love abideth in God, and God abideth in him.
Herein is love made perfect with us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, even so are we in this world.
There is no fear in love: but perfect love casteth out fear, because fear hath punishment; and he that feareth is not made perfect in love.
We love, because He first loved us.
Dear Lord, as we continue together in Thy presence, we want to thank Thee for all Thy promises, because all Thy promises are true, and they are all yea and amen in Christ Jesus.
Thou who hast promised, Thou hast fulfilled, because Thou art faithful. So, Lord, based on Thy faithfulness, we come to Thee this morning. We open our hearts to Thee and pray that Thy Spirit will bring Thy own Word, living Word, into our very being.
Lord, we do not just want to hear what Thou hast to say. We want to live in what Thou hast said. And it is all for Thy glory. We ask in Thy precious name. Amen.
We have been considering together this matter of spiritual exercise. We feel that this is of tremendous importance, because if there is no spiritual exercise, there is no spiritual life.
It is the will of God, who has given us His own life in Christ Jesus, and He has even put His Spirit into our new spirit. All these wonderful provisions of God have one purpose: that we may have spiritual life.
But what is the new spirit He has given us if it is not being used and exercised? Why does the Holy Spirit dwell in our spirit if it is not because He is there to see to it that the life of Christ in us may grow into fullness?
So, dear brothers and sisters, we feel it is extremely important, and most fundamental, that every believer must know how to exercise his spirit and what is meant by exercising our spirit.
Spirit is not a material thing that we can see, but we know the reality of it because of its functions, its faculties.
We have mentioned that in our new spirit, in which is life and in which is the Spirit of God, there are three main functions.
Number one, it has the function of conscience.
After we are saved, our conscience has been cleansed by the precious blood of our Lord Jesus. God becomes the standard of our conscience, and by His Spirit He will speak to our conscience. We often say that our conscience is the voice of God.
And as believers, conscience is very important and most dependable. Before we believe in the Lord Jesus, the conscience is there, but it is not dependable. Why? Because it has lost its standard.
But with a believer, our conscience is under the righteousness of God. So whenever the Holy Spirit touches our conscience and speaks to our conscience, we know what is right and what is wrong. By that, we are able to live as believers.
Number two, we find that our spirit has the function of intuition.
Ordinarily, we get our knowledge from outside information. We gather it in our brain, store it, analyze it, and even come to a conclusion as to what is good and what is bad. That is knowledge—ethical knowledge, which is the highest of all human knowledges.
But, brothers and sisters, when we were in sin and transgression, all the knowledge that we gathered to ourselves made us wise, thinking that we were clever. We became almost like God. We became independent of God, and because of this, it brought us death.
But thank God, after we are saved, the tree of life is within us, and God gives us the real knowledge of good and evil.
In other words, good in the Scripture means the will of God. Whatever is the will of God is good for us. Whatever is not the will of God, no matter how good it is to human eyes, is bad.
Such knowledge only comes from God. So we call it intuition because it is direct knowledge. It is not from outside; it is from within our spirit. It is the Holy Spirit who reveals God and His mind to us. By that, we are able to live a holy life, separated from the world.
Now, this morning we would like to go into the third function in our spirit, which is communion.
As a matter of fact, communion is the foundational function of all the other functions of our spirit. If we are not in communion with God, our conscience will not work rightly. If we are not in communion with God, in touch with God, our intuition will not work either.
So we find that communion is the basic function in our spirit. It is not only the basic function; it is the highest function.
Why? It is like deep calleth unto deep. It is from the depths of God calling to the depths of our being. It is from the depths of our being that we respond to the depth of God. It is the highest of all our spiritual functions.
It is through communion that we come into union with God in life. It is that which fulfills the eternal purpose of God.
What is the eternal purpose of God concerning man? We are made in His own image, and we are to be transformed and conformed to the image of God’s beloved Son. This is the will of God for us.
How can this be fulfilled? It is through communion. As we commune with God, and God communes with us, we are transformed.
Perhaps you do not know exactly what the word communion means. Another word is fellowship. Often when we talk about fellowship, we mean fellowship with one another. But when we talk about fellowship with God, or God’s fellowship with us, we say communion.
Actually, it is a kind of fellowship. God opens up Himself to us, and we respond to Him. We open up ourselves to God. By such communication, by such communion, gradually we are being transformed out of ourselves and into Christ.
So, brothers and sisters, communion is the most basic, and yet it is the highest, function of our spirit.
If conscience gives us the righteousness of God, and intuition gives us the holiness of God, then communion gives us the glory of God, which is love. This is how important communion is.
Now let us retrace our human history. After God created man in His own image, after His likeness, He put man in the Garden of Eden, which is a garden of pleasure.
God planted all kinds of fruit trees for the food of man, to sustain our human body. Then God put in the midst of the garden the tree of life, which symbolized His own life.
If man should eat the fruit of the tree of life, what would happen? He would have God’s life in him, because we are created for God’s life.
When God created the universe and all the living creatures, none of them could receive God’s life. Only man was created in God’s image, and that is the reason why he can receive God’s life and be united with God in life. It is the highest blessing, the highest purpose that God has ordained for human beings.
Yet in the garden, by the side of the tree of life, God put the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
The tree of the knowledge of good and evil was not a bad tree. God could not put anything bad in the garden of pleasure. It was a better tree than all the fruit trees, but it was not the best. It was knowledge, by itself, of good and evil.
But unfortunately, if man should eat the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, he would declare independence from God. He would make himself a little god. He would think he knew everything and had the knowledge of good and evil like God.
The result was that he knew what was good, but did not have the power, the life, to do the good. He knew what was evil, but did not have the life to resist evil. Brothers and sisters, that is what happened to mankind today.
But thank God, even though our forefathers ate the wrong tree, and that has caused what human beings have been through the centuries, salvation has come.
Human beings live by the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. They do not have the life of God in them, because God said, “In the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.”
When Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, their spirit was dead. This means the cessation of communication. The proper environment of man’s spirit is God. But when man sinned against God, that proper communication was cut off. That was spiritual death.
The spirit is still there. Its function is still there. But it is not working properly anymore. That is the reason you find that in the world people can communicate with evil spirits, but they cannot communicate with God.
But thank God, that is what salvation is. Salvation is not something external.
Some people take the gospel of Jesus Christ as the highest ethical teaching, but that is completely wrong. It is true: if you read the Sermon on the Mount, it is the highest ethical teaching in the world. But who can do it? It condemns us; that is not salvation.
But thank God, when Christ Jesus died on the cross for the sin of the world, He not only cleansed our conscience—our bad conscience—and cleansed it so that we have a good conscience, a conscience without offense before God.
We can live with a good conscience before God and man. That is what salvation is. Salvation gives us a new spirit and restores us to that capacity, that possibility, of communicating with God.
It is the experience of all those who are saved. You may not know very much, even about the gospel, but you know one thing: you believe in the Lord Jesus as your Lord and Savior. When you do that, something happens. Immediately you find heaven open.
You and the invisible God, who is Spirit, begin to be in touch. Romans 8 tells us that we have received the Spirit of sonship. We cry out to God, “Abba, Father.” We are God’s children. We have His life in us, and our communication with God begins.
You know, I remember very vividly. I was brought up in a Christian family, a very devout family.
We had family altar every evening. My father would read from a big Bible, and after that we all knelt down, and he would lead us in prayer. I was educated from kindergarten to college in Christian schools.
When we were in middle school and high school, we were forced to attend Sunday church. All the students would line up and march into that church building. We occupied about one quarter of the building and listened to the sermons.
My father was the preacher. But the preacher’s son, when he sat there, put a novel behind the hymnbook.
I knew almost everything about Christianity. I could speak to others. I preached before I was saved. I led prayer meetings before I was saved. But I knew about God; I never knew Him.
I read the Bible. I knew what was in the Bible, but it did not speak to me. It was a foreign book to me.
But one day, when He saved me, something happened.
I remember, I went to my room and opened the Bible. It was 2 Peter 1. I read it, and every word began to speak to my heart. It was like my Father was writing a letter to me.
Brothers and sisters, it is different. There was communication.
This should indicate to us that this is what God wants us to be. He wants to communicate with us, and He wants us to communicate with Him. He wants to have a life with us, and we must have a life with Him. That is the highest of human destiny.
Brothers and sisters, since we have begun in this way, are we continuing in this way? Do we grow in this way?
Unfortunately, we find that Christianity has led us astray, because the teaching of Christianity gives us lots of rules and regulations: “You should do that. You should not do that.”
We simply obey the rules, and then we are called good Christians. We are led into an outward way. When we do not know anything, we ask, and our teachers tell us, “This is it. You do this and you are all right. If you do not do this, you are wrong.”
If we listen to them and do whatever is prescribed, everything is from outside. We forget there is an inward way of life that God has ordained for us.
So communion is the one thing that we as believers must cultivate throughout our life. If we miss this matter of communion with God, we miss the whole thing.
God is Spirit. You cannot see Him with your naked eyes. He is everywhere. He is here, but you do not see Him because He is Spirit.
The only way you can see Him is by your spirit. If your spirit is living, active, and alive, then you are in touch with God every moment of your life. This is real spiritual life.
So, dear brothers and sisters, we who are redeemed of the Lord, are we cultivating this communing life with God? Are we in real, living touch with God every day?
Do we live in the presence of God, moment by moment? This is what spiritual life really is.
There are various expressions of communion. How can we commune with God? There are various expressions. For instance, worship.
Worship today is grossly misunderstood. We make worship something limited by time and space. On Sunday, we go to worship. The Sunday service is called worship. But actually, it is often simply listening to a sermon.
Do you remember our Lord Jesus in John 4? He met a Samaritan woman and talked with her. Because of what our Lord had told her, she realized that He must be a prophet.
So she tried to discuss with our Lord Jesus the matter of worship. She said, “We Samaritans worship at Mount Gerizim, but you Jews worship in Jerusalem. Where should we go to worship?”
In other words, to her, worship was a matter of where and when. Where to go and when to worship; outside that time, there was no worship. If there is no worship, what are you doing? You are living your own life.
Our Lord Jesus said, “It is neither in Jerusalem nor at Mount Gerizim. The hour cometh, and now is, when God is seeking true worshippers, who worship Him in spirit and truth, because God is Spirit.”
Brothers and sisters, what is worship? In old English, the word worship actually means worth-ship. In other words, you consider God worthy, so you worship Him.
Worship is really putting God—placing God—in His rightful place, and putting yourself in your proper place. That is worship.
Worship is an attitude. Worship is a spirit. What God desires is a worshipping spirit. It is neither restricted by time nor space. You worship God everywhere, anytime, because worship comes out of your spirit.
I remember one day when I was in the Philippines. I went to an island called Davao, and I saw a Catholic church. Before the altar were four white kneeling statues.
But when I approached closer, I found that there were four nuns kneeling there without moving. My first reaction was, “How pious these nuns are.” But then my second thought came: Is it godliness? Is it worship?
Do you worship God just with your posture? Is that worship? If the spirit is not there, no matter how you prostrate yourself, it is no worship. God is not worshipped.
Today, so-called worship is mainly a matter of physical postures. I do not say that real worship does not include any posture. I do not say that. But I say that worship does not originate from the physical body.
No matter how pious you may appear physically, if your heart is not there, if your spirit is not exercised, God is not worshipped.
You remember our Lord Jesus said in Matthew 15, “Ye hypocrites, Pharisees and scribes, ye worship with your lips, but your heart is far from Me.” This is not worship.
Worship is not merely a mental thing. You may pray a beautiful prayer. If you read a prayer book, there are beautiful prayers. But if it is only with your lips and your heart is not there, it is not worship.
You may have high thoughts about God, high-sounding words praising God, but if your heart is not there, that is not worship.
You may sing, but if you do not sing with your heart, no matter how beautiful the sound may be, God does not hear it.
Today people try to sing soul songs, soul music, stirring up man’s emotions and stirring up the mind, thinking that this is worship. Brothers and sisters, no. It has to come from your spirit.
Your spirit bows before God. Your heart is open to Him, and your whole being is toward Him. That is worship: placing Him in His rightful place and putting yourself in your proper place.
It is true that if worship comes out of the spirit, it affects our mind and it also carries our body. That is true. But we have to see the origin.
The mistake we find in Christianity today is the origin. Instead of coming from the spirit, people try to work from outside in, and that is not God’s way. Whenever God works, it is always from inside and touches the circumference. But whatever the enemy works is always from outside, trying to reach the inside.
So, brothers and sisters, what is worship? Worship is communion with God. There your spirit is communing with God, who is Spirit, and out of that communion the worshipping spirit comes forth. That is worship.
Another thing is fellowship. What is fellowship? We have just mentioned that we always use the word fellowship as between believers. That is true.
But if you read 1 John 1, you find what the apostle John says: “That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen, that which we have contemplated, that which we have touched—even the Word of life.”
Here is the description of Christ, because Christ is the One who is from the beginning. He was taught to us by the prophets, so in the Old Testament we heard about Him.
Now He has come into this world in His incarnation. We see Him. But if you just see Him outwardly, you do not know Him. So we contemplate Him, think about Him, meditate upon Him, and receive revelation.
When we contemplate Him, we see that He is the glory of the only begotten from the Father. He is the One whom the apostles said they had touched.
How? Because Christ was raised from the dead, and He showed Thomas: “Touch Me. Touch My side. See, there is a hole. Touch My hands. See if there are nail prints there.” He is the Word of life. He is Christ.
“What we have seen and heard we report to you, that you may have fellowship with us; and our fellowship is indeed with the Father and with the Son.”
So, dear brothers and sisters, fellowship originates with our fellowship with God. We are all called into the fellowship of God’s Son, Jesus Christ. What is that fellowship? It is His fellowship with the Father in the Spirit.
If you are not rich enough to join a fraternity, thank God, you are rich enough to be in the family of God. We are in the most exclusive fellowship in the whole universe.
That fellowship is the fellowship between the Father and the Son in the Spirit, and it is now open to us.
Fellowship—koinonia—means sharing in common. Think of that. God and His beloved Son share in common with us.
He does not withhold anything from us. He shares His all with us. He shares His Son with us. What more could we ask?
Brothers and sisters, do we treasure this fellowship? Do you want to know Him more and more, or do you think that to be saved is enough?
There ought to be created within us a real desire for fellowship with God, with Christ. We want to know Him more and more, and He does not withhold anything.
Whatever we have received in fellowship with God, with His Son in the Spirit, we share with brothers and sisters. That is fellowship.
Oftentimes we misunderstand. We take social intercourse as fellowship. “Well, let us have fellowship.” What do you mean? “Let us have a chat together and gossip together.” Do you call that fellowship?
Fellowship is based on your fellowship with the Father and with the Son. What you have received, you report to your brothers and sisters. There is sharing in common.
God has no desire to have a few spiritual giants and leave all the other believers as spiritual paupers. God desires that we may all enter into the fullness of Christ, so that the result is that your joy may be full.
That is real joy. Oftentimes we sit and chatter together, and say that we have had a good time. But what kind of joy is that compared with the joy of fellowshipping in Christ? Fellowship in Christ—that is real joy. That is fellowship.
How much do we have fellowship with God? I always remember that story.
There was once a father and his little daughter. They were the family. Every evening, when the father came home after supper, he and his daughter would sit together and have a good time sharing.
The father would tell the daughter what happened during the day, and the daughter would tell the father what happened to her. Every night.
Then one day, suddenly after supper, the daughter said to the father, “Excuse me, I have something to do,” and she ran into her own room and shut the door.
The father did not know what had happened. For a month, perhaps more, the daughter acted like that. The father suffered greatly.
One day, it was his birthday, and the daughter came and presented to the father a pair of slippers that she had made with her own hands. She said, “Father, I made it for you.”
The father said, “Daughter, I do appreciate it, but you do not know how much I miss you.”
Brothers and sisters, this is what our heavenly Father feels. We are busy, perhaps doing something for Him, but He treasures our presence with Him—our fellowship with Him, our opening our hearts to Him, and our listening to Him—more than anything else.
That is communion. How much time have we spent in His presence?
Prayer is another form of communion. Sometimes we think prayer is petition. We have a need, so we tell the Lord of our need, fully expecting Him to supply that need. That is prayer.
It is prayer, yes. But the base of prayer is communion.
What is prayer? Prayer is heart to heart. You open your heart to the Lord, and let the Lord open His heart to you.
When you have such communion with Him, then out of that communion petition will come into expression. You come with other things. That is prayer.
We often say that as Christians we should have morning devotion. When we get up in the morning, we are not supposed simply to rush out into the world and do our business. If we do that, how can we live as Christians?
We all know that the first thing in the morning, when you get up, should be to draw near to God. Have your morning devotion, have your prayer, read your Bible, have a time with the Lord. Then it gives us strength to go into the world and be a witness for the Lord.
I often say modern life is not conducive to Christian living. If we sleep late and get up late, we have no time. Shall we say to God, “Good morning. Goodbye,” and rush out?
What is prayer? How do we pray? Do we just say our prayer and then go away, not even remembering what we have said?
How do you pray in your private prayer? Do you draw near to God first? See if there is contact with God. See if your spirit is really open to God, who is Spirit. See if you are being brought into His very presence.
Then, out of your heart, you start to pour out to the Lord. Brothers and sisters, that is prayer.
Are we drawing near to Him, that He may draw near to us?
I often remember the song we sang in the beginning:
Nothing between, Lord, nothing between;
Let me see Thy glory,
Draw my soul close to Thee,
Then speak Thy love to me—
Nothing between, nothing between.
That was written by Evan H. Hopkins, a theologian of the Keswick Convention. He lived such a close life with the Lord. He wanted nothing between him and the Lord. He would draw near to God and listen to what He had to say. That was his life and his testimony.
I was greatly helped by him. Oftentimes in the morning, this was simply my prayer: “Nothing in between, Lord. Nothing between.”
“Show Thy glory to me. Draw me close to Thee. Let me see Thy face. Let me hear Thy voice.” There is communion there. If you commune with God, He will commune with you. What a blessed time it is.
When you go into the world, His presence goes with you. Brothers and sisters, prayer is a kind of communion.
Bible reading—we read the Bible. We all should read the Bible. But listen to George Müller.
George Müller read the Bible one hundred times in his life. He was a very methodical person. He wrote down everything and kept a record. He had read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation one hundred times.
God used him to open an orphanage in England. He was a German. He cared for thousands of orphans, all by prayer. In his life, he had ten thousand prayers answered. He kept a record of it.
But what did he do every morning? The first thing he did was approach God. He would take one verse in the Bible, read it, meditate upon it, and then begin to pray.
Sometimes what he read caused him to confess and repent before God. Sometimes what he read made him joyful, praising the Lord and worshipping the Lord.
So every day, he used a very short time: read a verse, meditate on it, and turn it into prayer. That is communion.
I found it very helpful in my early days. Find perhaps some book in the Bible that is more conducive to meditation. Every morning, read a verse a few times, meditate on what He says, and turn it into prayer. It is communion.
That is the spiritual food for your daily life. We read the Bible merely for knowledge; that is not enough. There is no food in that.
It is only when you really meditate on it before God and turn it into prayer that you have food for the day. It is wonderful.
The breaking of bread, as you find in 1 Corinthians 11, is remembrance. Remembrance is recalling the past and bringing it to the present. Because of what you remember, you are touched, you worship, and you give thanks.
But if you read 1 Corinthians 10:15-17, what is that? It is fellowship.
Do you not know that the cup which we drink is communion with the blood of the Lord Jesus? The loaf which we break is communion with the body of Christ. We, being many, are one body because we are one loaf. It is communion.
Do not think that the Lord’s Table is merely a remembering of the past. It is present communion. Communion is always present. It never becomes past, nor is it in the future. It is always present communion.
When we drink the cup, we are in fellowship with His blood. When we take the loaf, we are in fellowship with His life.
In other words, in our spirit—not in our physical body, but in our spirit—we are in fellowship with His blood, which cleanses us. We are in fellowship with His life, which gives us energy and strength to go forward for the week ahead of us.
Every time you take the bread and drink the cup, you go out strengthened for another week. Brothers and sisters, what a communion that is.
It is not just an objective thing; it is a very subjective experience. When we are taking the Lord’s Table, do we experience communion with our Lord Jesus?
Another expression is thanksgiving and praise. Praise and thanksgiving are all expressions of communion.
Praise waiteth for Thee, O God.
Whoso offereth praise glorifieth Me, saith the Lord.
We ought to come and offer the sacrifice of praise, which is the sacrifice of our lips. Brothers and sisters, give thanks in all things. These are expressions of communion.
The Bible says that Daniel prayed three times a day. The Psalmist said, “Seven times a day do I praise Thee.” That is a life of communion.
So, brothers and sisters, there is a life here. There is a communing life, and that is what God wants us to enter into. Out of that communion comes union.
Out of communion come transformation and conformity to the image of Christ.
Finally, let me try to give a few practical hints. How do we start?
Number one: very simple. Give time to the Lord.
Do not be so busy that you do not have time for the Lord. Try to have time with the Lord.
I remember a dear sister. She was the wife of our principal in high school. She had several children. She wanted to have time with the Lord, but she was so busy.
What did she do? She got up at four o’clock, when people were still sleeping, and spent time with the Lord. Then she went back to sleep.
Make time for the Lord. If you are so busy that you have no time, can you say that you have no time for the Lord? He has time for you. He is waiting.
So, very simply, we need to have time with the Lord. Do not overdo it. If you overdo it, you cannot continue.
Be before the Lord to see how much time you can really spend before Him. Then pursue it faithfully.
Number two: when you are spending that time with the Lord, learn to exercise your spirit.
Do not just spend the time there, say your prayer, and then read your Bible. That is what I did when I first got saved.
I usually got up first in the family, went to a room, shut myself in, and had my morning service. I sang a song, I knelt before the Lord, and I opened the Bible.
I was told that if I read four chapters a day, I could cover the Bible once a year. So I read four chapters, three times each chapter, and thought over it. Then I prayed. I had my morning devotion.
But after I came out, if you asked me what I had read, I had forgotten.
I spent my time, but I did not spend it well. Spend your time with the Lord. Approach Him. Draw near to Him. Wait upon Him. Abide. Make your home in Him. Be in His presence, within the veil.
In the Bible, you have all kinds of descriptions. Spend time. Use your spirit. Try to exercise your spirit.
Number three: when you exercise your spirit in communing with God, if there is any problem, your conscience will speak to you.
You find that these three functions cannot be separated. They can be distinguished, but they cannot be separated.
When you approach the Lord and find in your conscience that there is some sin that has not been confessed, confess it. Claim the blood of our Lord. It is a time of repentance.
Or when, intuitively, the Lord has shown you something and you have not obeyed, when you come into the presence of God, He will remind you. That is the time you surrender yourself and obey.
In other words, every morning is the time that you offer your burnt offering. Put yourself on the altar as a burnt offering for the Lord. Renew it every day.
With that kind of communing life, you will find that you have strength and quality.
Number four: during the day, do not allow anything to remain. Confess it right away. Do not wait until the evening, so that your communing with God may not be affected.
Keep a clear account with the Lord throughout the day.
In the beginning, the presence of God is maintained by our memory. In other words, when we remember, then we are in God’s presence. But when we are busy with other things, we are no longer conscious of God’s presence.
So we try to remember and recall from time to time. Perhaps just lift up your heart: “Thank You, Lord. You are here.” In this way, you maintain yourself in the presence of God.
But that is not the final thing; it is only the beginning. It is only when you learn the lesson of the breaking of your outer man that you begin to live really within the veil.
These are a few suggestions, and hopefully they will help us in this life of communion with God.
Just as 2 Corinthians 3:18 says:
But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord the Spirit.
That is what communion is.
Dear Lord, forgive us for our scattered words that cannot fully reveal Thy heart. We pray that Thy heart will open to each and every one of us.
Thou art longing to commune with us. Give us the same longing, that we may run after Thee. In Thy precious name.