This past weekend I attended the 2008 Thanksgiving Weekend Conference in Toronto. One of the messages was titled, "Being Intensified to Be the Overcomers Who Follow the Lamb Wherever He May Go for the Consummation of the New Jerusalem." I was particularly touched by the following points:

• "Before the Lord's crucifixion the disciples followed Him in an outward way; now, after His resurrection, we follow Him in an outward way, because in resurrection Christ has become the life-giving Spirit dwelling in our spirit, and we follow Him in our spirit."
• Matthew 16:24 Then Jesus said to His disciples, If anyone wants to come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me.
  The cross is the will of God. To do God's will in this sense is to put aside your own preference and follow the Lamb.
• Being led by the Spirit in Romans 8:14 depends on the following points from the preceding verses:
  1. The Spirit's indwelling (8:9,11).
  2. Putting to death the practices of the flesh (8:13).
  3. The Spirit gving life to the mind, the spirit, and the body (8:6,10,11).

This morning, I had an inward conflict in trying to be one with a brother. I have realized from the Lord that I need to not struggle or compete with him, but just follow him in what he is doing; yet it has been a struggle. But this morning, with the word from the conference still settling in me, I realized that it is wrong to try to follow a brother outwardly. I realized that I am not following any person, but I am only following the Lamb. So I asked myself, where is the Lamb inside me going? I realized that the Lamb was following this brother in what he was doing. Immediately, I realized that I had to follow the Lamb where He was going. The struggle was over, and I easily and joyfully followed the Lamb.

I realized that I had been trying to submit and follow by my own natural effort based on my knowledge that submitting and following is how to be one with other saints. But I was truly off from God's economy. Praise the Lord for turning me back to His economy! Now I see that I need only ask, Where is the Lamb going? What is the Lamb in me doing? Then I should follow Him. This is new light for me, and I pray it might become my daily experience.