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New Heart in Harmony with God's Throne
(Overcomer Wu)
“For thus says the High and Lofty One that inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.” -- Isaiah 57:15
It may come as a surprise to some for what I'm about to say: God has two throne rooms: one in the highest heaven and one in the lowliest of hearts of man who have received Him. In these lowly, humble hearts God in His great mercy has taken out the old, sinful heart and has put within a new heart and a new spirit (Eze 36:26), a heart that can know God, a heart in which is written the Word of Life and inscribed with His living laws on fleshy tablets of the heart. In these hearts He is pleased to establish His throne. When Isaiah saw the Lord high and lifted up, it changed his perspective to a heavenly one. It humbled him to the utmost and gave him a holy purpose in His life. When he wrote the words we find in Isaiah 57:15, he wrote directly from the heart of God, giving a revelation to us of the person who has a new heart: "For thus says the High and Lofty One that inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones." The humble ones dwell with Him in His throne room.
In Isaiah 66:1-2 we see His other throne room: "Thus says the LORD:' Heaven is My throne, and earth is My footstool. Where is the house that you will build Me? And where is the place of My rest? For all those things My hand has made, and all those things exist,' says the LORD. 'But on this one will I look: On him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at My word'" When this man hears the word of God, he’s moved on the inside. He’s walking in the fear of God. He respects the Lord. 'This is the person,' God says, 'in whom I will establish My throne room.' "In the world system when something is broken, it is set aside or thrown away. In contrast, in the Kingdom of God, He sets aside unbroken things. It is the precious, broken things and the despised (1 Cor 1:27-28) that He uses to confound the wise and show the world His great glory through vessels of clay.
Our Lord Jesus emptied Himself. Though in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily (Col. 2:9), He came down from heaven and tabernacled among us (Jn 1:14) or veiled in flesh. At the end of His earthly pilgrimage, Jesus Christ willingly obeyed God the Father’s will and was crucified and shed His blood for you and me that we might be redeemed and flowed out His water of life to give us His life. He was buried, raised, ascended, and enthroned by the Father, and now He sends His Holy Spirit back into the world to dwell within us. When we are saved, we received and welcome the Lord Jesus into our heart not only as our Savior but much more as our Lord. This means that we need to yield to Him the throne in our hearts. To the broken, the humbled, the contrite, and those who come knowing that they need the cross and that they’re a sinner who has no hope apart from the precious Blood of Jesus Christ and His resurrection from the dead, into this veil of flesh and into their inner man, the spirit of man, comes the risen Lord Jesus Christ as the Life-giving Spirit (1 Cor 15:45b). There in our hearts, He desires to be enthroned, and the Father’s throne room seeks a place in us.
Every man is comprised of an outer court (a body); you have a soul that is like a holy place (our volition, intellect, and emotion of your soul); but in the inner man is the spirit, which is the lamp of the Lord (Prov 20:27). In that secret place of the Most High, He wants to live and reign within us. God's Word says, "You are not your own…you are bought with a price" (1 Cor 6:19-20). You have the Holy Spirit in you if you’re a Christian and it’s of God’s doing. He’s placed Him in the hidden man of the heart. In your heart He wants to be enthroned in majesty and in power. He wants to establish His Lordship as it says in Romans 14:8-9, that to this end Christ was crucified, buried and resurrected that He might be the Lord of the dead and the living. He wants to establish "Thy Kingdom come; Thy will be done in earth as it is in Heaven." "Forever, O Lord, Your Word is established in the heavens" (Psalm 119:89), but we have the privilege of giving it a settling place on earth that the Lord's will may be accomplished on earth as it has already been accomplished in the heavens (this is based on the literal translation of Matthew 6:10). When He comes we can "reign in life" (Rom 5:17), of course it is not we who reign, but He reigns in and through us. We reign in life by the Lord Jesus and by His Life. He wants Christ in me to be the hope of glory (Col 1:27). Praise the Lord!
We have to come into an inner agreement — the throne room of our heart with God’s throne room. If you want to know what’s to be in your heart, if you want to know the atmosphere and environment of what is supposed to fill our hearts, then you need to look at what is going on in the throne room of God. Whatever wouldn’t fit or belong there mustn’t fit or belong in our hearts either. Whatever is going on there has to likewise take place in our hearts. That’s the great key to practically letting the Lord reign in our hearts besides yielding our full headship to Him without any reservation. In any church revival, it is when God’s throne room is felt and known in and through us. For instance, the Lord Jesus said, "The Kingdom of Heaven is within you" (Luke 17:21), then in Romans 14:17 God's Word tells us, “For the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.” We know that righteousness, peace and joy pervade the heavenly throne of God and His sphere of reign; thus, we need to also let Him reign in our hearts that righteousness, peace, and joy may fill our hearts.
The Lord Jesus also said, "The Kingdom of Heaven comes not with observation" (Luke 17:20). This means it comes by revelation; it comes as God unveils Himself to the eyes of your heart, and you see Him high and lifted up. You see Him as a hymn says, "Beyond the sacred page." It’s when you’ve heard something beyond the human ear. Eye had not seen; nor ears heard, how much God has prepared for those who love Him by His Spirit (1 Cor 2:9). God wants our heart to have the same atmosphere, the same environment, the same setting, the same adoration, the same honor, glory, majesty and authority that you see around the throne room of God. This is His will for our lives.
"As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts, says the Lord" (Isa 55:9). We must have an elevated perspective to that of God and not merely our lowly, horizontal, limited, near-sighted perspective. There must be a reality shift in us. It’s the upward call of God. We have to be like Paul who said, "We look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporary but the things which are not seen are eternal" (2 Cor 4:18). The secret of the saints of old is none other than their constantly living in the throne room of God. It is living and walking in His presence. "In Your presence is fullness of joy" (Psa 16:11). This is not something we strive to attain. This is a pure gift of grace. If you are a Christian you are living in the heavenlies, and you are seated there with Christ by grace through faith (Eph 2:6). We must never forsake the cross, because it is to the broken and the contrite and those who take up the cross that the light of God shines upon and shines through. Flesh and blood cannot reveal it to you but the Father which is in heaven (Matt 16:17).
Have you seen beyond your personal, family, or even church activities? Have you seen that you have the great privilege of living without ceasing in the throne room of God and that He is saying, "Come unto Me, and come boldly by the Blood of Jesus Christ to the throne of grace? There you will find that your needs are totally met in Me." We are a joint-heir with Christ (Rom 8:17). We also have a new heart to appreciate it; thus we have to guard that heart above all that we guard (Prov 4:23), because our of it are the springs of living water. Who can stand in His holy place? The one who has clean hands and a pure heart, who guards his heart and does not take liberties (Psa 24:3,4).
As we read in the Book of Revelation studying heaven’s throne room, I found that above all the sound of the praise and adoration, and above all the glory of it, in Revelation 14 and 15, in those first verses as John is caught up, it says, "I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Zion, and with him a hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father’s name written in their foreheads, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder; and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps and they sang as it were a new song before the throne of God…" In the Old Testament sometimes they would have a thousand harps harping. Harps were identified with worship. In reality, the harp is like a picture of the human heart. Have you ever heard anyone say, "That struck a chord in my heart"? The harp is an instrument of praise. That’s why it says we’re to be singing and making melody in our heart to the Lord. He’s given us a new song. There is an instrument of praise in the inner sanctuary that is supposed to match up with what Revelation 15:1 says: "And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvelous, seven angels having the seven last plagues…; and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God. And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God and the song of the Lamb…" — a song of deliverance. Those who see Him most clearly and intimately in the universe are singing about His atonement; they are singing praise about His cross, His accomplished work on the cross, His resurrection, ascension, and enthronement, His victory over all His enemies and ultimately about His honor, glory and majesty expressed through His throne and through the Church. It seems that we are told of no other activity of the saints in heaven, those who are redeemed and regenerated.
I’ve heard that if you take a harp and strike any note or chord on the harp and put a silent harp beside it, very soon the strings of the same note or chord on the silent harp, will begin to vibrate. They call it "sympathetic vibrations." The second harp will pick up the vibrations of the first harp and there will be a resonation. If you have no song in your heart, hold your silent harp up next to the glorious worship sounds in the heart of our fellow saints and we will catch the divine fervor of worship. Thus, Psalms 42:6 says, “deep calls unto deep.” The depth of a worshipping heart will resonate in the hearts of other saints to render worship to our Father God Who is worthy of all our praise and worship. And just as any string instruments, that needs constant tuning, so do our hearts. How then do you tune your heart? There are at least three ways that the Bible suggests:
Firstly, an open Bible and an open heart in the Presence of God. Beyond the sacred page, seek the living instant Word, the rhema Word, of God. As you turn to the Scriptures and your heart is lifted, you are brought into a growing oneness with the mind of God, renewed in the spirit of your mind, sanctified by the renewal of your mind. As you receive His thoughts and the mind of Christ shines through the Word of God and you hide that living Word in your heart, your heart will be tuned to resonate with the will and the thoughts of God. Agreeing with God in a daily, deepening basis, requires a deepening daily repentance, the applying of the Blood of Christ, and the washing of the water in the Word to wash away our blemishes and oldness, including the our old way of thinking according to our old man. Thus, we shall have the mind of Christ; and as we all have the mind of Christ, we will all be attuned to the same mind and be of one mind (Phi 2:2) in pursuing Christ and the building of the Church.
As we come to the Lord with an unveiled face, beholding as in the Word of God the very face of the Lord Jesus, as we worship Him, we are being transformed even by the Spirit of God into that same image from glory to glory (2 Cor 3:18) that you behold in the mirror of the Word. It has been observed that many couples who are married for decades start to look like each other because they behold each other's face day in and day out. Likewise, we will be transformed into the image of Christ as we behold Him more and more each day through His living Word.
Secondly, we tune our hearts to the Lord's by our time alone with God in prayer. It is not just reading His Word and having an open heaven, but it is hearing His voice. It is trembling at His Word, hearing that holy resonation of the living God opening to us, the Spirit of wisdom and revelation taking the things of Christ and showing them to us. As we are in prayer, being still before Him, maintaining our heart in the throne room of God, we will come to know Him deeply in a subjective way and we shall be changed.
Thirdly, we need the balancing and the adjustment of the Body of Christ, the Church, especially by the godly saints. We need their fellowship and they need us as well to seek the mind of Christ. God will show something of what He is like through other saints, and by His Spirit will adjust our hearts to agree with that reality. We see the blending of His heavenly will and the sharing of His heart and mind in a more intensified fashion as we gather together in His Name, for we know that He will definitely be in our midst based on His promised made in Matthew 18:20. When there is intimate communication and a meeting together at the throne of God, the power of His Presence and His speaking is released in our lives corporately. How clearly this is seen in those first few chapters of the book of Acts.
We need to see and practice what John the Baptist realized and proclaimed: I must decrease that Christ might increase (Jn 3:30). And it’s the bearing of the precious cross of Christ daily that we enter into the reality of “It is no longer I that live... but Christ” (Gal 2:20). The cross as revealed to me — a sinner is redeemed and justified; the cross revealed in me — the saint is purified and sanctified; the cross revealed through me — the Savior is proclaimed to a world that is lost and has no answers except the one He has put in our hearts as a stewardship. Therefore, we need to have the throne room of the Lamb of God there in our hearts.
The Lord wants to raise our perspective to His. He wants us to sing and make melody in our hearts. Too many of us have lost that great wonder and astonishment and the awe that I believe is not just a sense of reverence, but truly and literally also a true sense of a healthy fear of the Lord, a sensing of who He is in His holiness that cannot tolerate a mixture of anything natural or worldly or of our self. Do words like astonishment, admiration, amazement, and adoration characterize our worship? If we have lost touch with the throne room of God, may the Lord tune our hearts by our time spent alone in His Word, prayers and worship. Yes, our worship is not just some singing with exotic musical instruments like an grand piano or organ, but a rendering of our true praise, honor, and adoration and majesty from our hearts to the Most High God. May He open the Scriptures to us as He did to the two disciples on the way to Emmaus that our hearts may burn as we turn the pages not of mere black and white letters, but the living, abiding, God-breathed Word of God as He reveals more of the excellency of the Lord Jesus Christ to us. We are to enter and live in His holy Presence in our mingled spirit until we are in the real and permanent throne room of God. We need to get a vision and revelation like Isaiah ... of the Lord Jesus high and lifted up.
The Beloved apostle John knew Jesus as well, if not better than anyone else while Jesus was on this earth, because he was known as the disciple whom Jesus loved; therefore, he must have been closest to the Lord Jesus. He saw the miracles Jesus performed; he walked and conversed with Him for at least three and half years; he knew much more of what we think we know on a tangible level. But when John was exiled to the island of Patmos and he was praying in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, he heard a loud voice like a trumpet and as he looked around he saw Him Who is the High Priest of the throne room of the kingdom of Heavens (Rev 1:9-). When John saw the Lord in His full glory, he wilted and he became as a dead man. He saw Him whose eyes were as a flame of fire, whose voice was like many waters, whose hair was white like white wool as snow, whose face was as the sun shining in its full intensity. He who once laid his head on Jesus’ chest at the last supper, and could have heard his natural heartbeat in His chest, when he saw Jesus as He is in glory – the glory He had with His Father before the foundation of the world, he fell at His feet as a dead man. The Lord Jesus in grace said, "Fear not; I am He Who was dead. And behold, I am living forever more. I want to show you something. Write therefore the things which you have seen..."
The Lord Jesus revealed Himself to John and showed him the consummation of all things. In the first three chapters of Revelation, Jesus revealed Himself where He desires and delights to live — in His churches, which collectively form the House of God (1 Tim 3:15). Revelation chapters 4 and 5 are put where they are, I believe, for a purpose. In chapter 6 you see the judgments begin to fall and looking at the judgments, could make your heart melt and wilt. God put chapters 4 and 5 together here, I believe, as an anchor for the soul. There is never panic in the throne room of God. Let us tune our hearts to these awesome things.
In Revelation chapter 4 we read: " I [John] looked, and behold, a door was opened in heaven…" and that is what you have opened before you. The historian Josephus tells us that the veil in the Temple was so heavy it took 3,000 priests to hang it. When the Lord Jesus was crucified, God tore it from top to bottom, saying, "The way into the holiest is now open because the blood of the One prophesied has been shed, and whosoever will, may come to Me." "And the first voice which I heard was like a trumpet speaking with me, saying, 'Come up here, and I will show you things which must take place after this.' Immediately I was in the Spirit; and behold, a throne set in heaven, and One sat on the throne." The Book of Revelation mentions the word "throne" 47 times, more than any other book of the Bible. The word "Lamb" is mentioned in Revelation 28 times, also more than in any other book in the New Testament. The word "worship" is used 22 times, again more than any book in the Bible even more than the book of Psalms, in Revelation. When one puts these three words together, we find that the focal message of this book is "Worship the Lamb Who is on the Throne." That is what’s happening in the presence of God in the third heaven... a continual worship by the angels, the four living creatures and the angelic elders. And that is what is happening in the hearts and minds of those who have the divine revelation of Christ in His excellency and who enthrone Him within our hearts.
John continues writing: "And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone; and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald." We see that the One who sits on this throne is a covenant-keeping God. This is the One that is suggested in Genesis 9 with the covenant rainbow of Noah, that I am the God who never breaks His Word. Heaven and earth will pass away but My Words and promises are sure and stedfast, and shall never pass away (Matt 24:35). "And round about the throne were…four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white garments; and they had on their heads crowns of gold. And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices…" What an fearful and awesome sight it is! "And there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God. And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal. And in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne were four living creatures full of eyes before and behind…And the four living creatures each had six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, ‘Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.’ And when those beasts give glory and honor and thanks to Him that sat on the throne, who liveth for ever and ever, the four and twenty elders fall down…" Seven times in the Book of Revelation, when they see Him on His throne, they fall down before Him and worship. When you and I see Him on the throne, we, too, should leave our throne, fall down before Him, and give Him the preeminence in all things.
"And the four living creatures, fall down before Him that sat on the throne, and worship Him that lives for ever and ever and they throw their crowns before the throne of God and they say, ‘You are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power: for You have created all things, and for Your pleasure they are and have been created.’" It’s not how much satisfaction and pleasure you are getting, or your wife or children are getting from your life; rather we need to ask: how much pleasure is God getting in our lives? Have you seen that the way you let Him get one of the utmost pleasures is to enthrone Him in your life and in your heart? That is one of the prime reasons why we are created.
Thus, in chapter four of Revelation you see God praised as the Sovereign Lord and Creator of the universe, and we see there is a throne with Him sitting upon it. I've pointed out before that sin in the original Greek word means “missing the mark.” Now, let us consider once again in light of the book of Revelation this question: what is sin? Sin is not giving Christ the preeminence in our hearts and not yielding to Him the throne in our hearts, for that is definitely missing the mark of our creative purpose and of our high calling of God in Christ Jesus. The One who made you and bought you with His own blood has the full right to reign in your life, and if you refuse to yield to Him the throne in your heart and continue to act independently of His Headship and Lordship, it is a most serious sin! Acting independently of God was what caused the first man Adam to fall in the first place as well. Thank the Lord that there is provision for us when we’ve gone astray. Repentance in its simplest essence is coming back to the place where we have fallen away (Rev 2:5), that is the throne of God. Our shedding of tears without returning back to God's throne is just futile presumption. It requires our coming back to the throne of God without and our giving Him the throne of our hearts within, falling down on our face and humbly confess, "You are a covenant-keeping God. I was made for Your pleasure and to express Your glory. May You enthrone Yourself within my heart and in every areas of my life" – that is the heart-attitude of holiness before God.
Furthermore, we see in chapter 5 of Revelation the praise that even eclipses that of what we saw in chapter 4. "And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the back side, sealed with seven seals." This speaks of the kinsman redeemer’s scroll. It was not as one of our books, sealed with seven visible seals, but it was a scroll. A portion of the scroll was written on both sides, rolled and sealed; more was written on both sides, rolled and sealed, and so on, until the remaining portion of the scroll was written, rolled and sealed. Only the person who is qualified has the right to open the scroll. "And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, ‘Who is worthy…’ [who is the kinsman Redeemer?] ‘to open the book and to loose the seals thereof?’" It’s a challenge to the whole universe. "And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon. And I wept much," John says, because he loved the Lord and he wanted everlasting righteousness to come, the Kingdom of God to come in its power. "And one of the elders said to me, Do not weep; behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David" — which suggests strength and permanency — "has prevailed to open the book, and to loose its seven seals." He has overcome to open the book and to loose the seven seals. These are the majestic qualities of Christ, our Redeemer and the victorious Lion over all His enemies. And as John looks to see this One who has overcome. "And behold…" — a term of astonishment — "in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as having been slain" — this suffering Lamb with the marks of death is a standing Lamb — "having seven horns" — that signifies all power and His might in fighting as horns are used as a weapon, or one can say that they also symbolizes the power of the Scriptures —"and seven eyes" — that’s omniscience in the language of the Scripture — and "the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth" — that is omnipresence in the language of the Scriptures.
The Greek word used here for "Lamb" is a rather unique word. It means a "gentle lamb" whereas when you see the word "lamb" in other portions of the Scriptures, it is more a middle-aged lamb, grown and more mature. But this is a gentle baby lamb, a frolicking lamb. On the throne is a tender, gentle, compassionate One who is a Lamb, yet He is an all-powerful Lamb as well; thus, He is a Lion-Lamb. "And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne." Praise the Lord! Only our Lord as the Lion-Lamb is worthy to open the scrolls!
"And when he had taken the book, the four living creatures and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials…which are the prayers of saints. And they sang a new song." With their harps and their hearts singing, they sing this song that eclipses the praise of what we saw in chapter 4: "You are worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for You were slain, and has redeemed us to God by Your blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; and has made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth." We shall reign on the earth — this is not just something that will take place in the future but is going on right now, for Romans 5:17 says, “... those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign (in the present tense) in life through the One, Jesus Christ.”
"And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne, and the living creatures, and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands; saying with a loud voice,"—listen to the harp that’s in harmony with heaven: "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honor, and glory, and blessing." That is the throne room’s heartbeat — praise to the Lamb of God! "And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honor, and glory, and power, be unto him that sits upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever. And the four living creatures said, Amen! And the four and twenty elders fell down and worshipped him that lives for ever and ever."
We see in Revelation chapter 4, the power, the eternality, and the sovereignty of the throne of God. In short, we see Him as the sovereign Lord in Revelation 4. However, in Revelation 5 we behold something that enhances what all that means to us. You behold the Lamb! Whereas in chapter 4 the praise is offered up to the sovereign Lord, the praise in chapter 5 eclipses that in chapter 4. How is that? In chapter 4 as sovereign creator, all He had to do to create was to speak things not being into being as we see how God created the universe in Genesis chapter 1. But in Revelation 5, as the Lion-Lamb of God, He had to shed His Blood. He’s the suffering Lamb as well as the overcoming Lion! They are praising Him around the throne at this moment as the Lamb of God, our Redeemer who shed His Blood and the One Who is victorious over all His enemies, including death and Hades! Also, in chapter 5, they are praising this One who alone is worthy to open the 7 scrolls of God's economy and God's eternal plan.
In chapter 5 we see the One Who is on the throne: the Lion-Lamb of God! That makes all the difference to us, because our Christ is the Lion-Lamb Who wants to reign on the throne of our hearts. It is both a gentle Lamb that seeks after our good and Who has loved us so much that He gave His life to redeem us, and at the same time He is the victorious Lion of the tribe of Judah Who assured us, "These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world" (Jn 16:33). Our Lord is victorious not just over the world, but also over sin, Satan, our self, and death! When we are saved, our names are written in the Lamb’s book of Life (Rev. 21:27). That’s the picture that God has chosen to relate to us what He is like. He’s as a lamb on the throne. That also means that if I’m going to be in harmony with the throne of God, I need to be in harmony with the Lamb of God Who is on the throne. In other words, are we living the life demonstrating that we have been redeemed by the Lamb of God? One who is no longer his own for we were bought by His blood (2 Cor 5:15), but whose life now belongs entirely and wholeheartedly to Him?
Our Lord Jesus says, "Come unto Me, all you who are labored and are heavy laden (if you’re weary and broken and contrite) and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you… for I am meek and lowly in heart" (Matt 11:28-29). As the crucified Lamb, or “the Lamb that has been slain” His yoke is the cross. That is where you will find rest. As we die to our own life by carrying our cross, we shall find Him enthroned. If you don’t lose your soul life and your throne, and choose instead to maintain your own throne room with you occupying it, you will miss out on the abundant life of God embodied in the Lamb of God.
We need to ask ourselves: are we living in harmony with the throne room of God? Is there a Lion-Lamb on the throne of our hearts? If you’re walking with the Lord Jesus as He wants you to walk, there will be a Lamb on the throne, and He will send you as He Himself was sent — to bear our cross and follow Him (of course, not in the same manner of death to redeem others as He alone could do, but simply to die to our self that He might live in and through us (Gal 2:20). This is our passion, to live in His throne room and to let that great throne room fill up this throne room of our heart. Dear saints, is the Lamb on the throne room of your heart? You must let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus. We must humbly yield to Him our will and bow our knees day by day. Take His yoke daily and walk in the beauty of His holiness. Thus, we shall live with a new heart in harmony with the throne of God!