So how can this be applied to us spiritually, after all the purpose of this blog is to offer some spiritual refreshment in the middle of the day no matter what the season, even a stiff necked season.
What better way to find out the spiritual significance than to look to the Bible... so I did a search for verses in the Bible reference a stiff neck. Depending on the translation, you get roughly 15-20 results of verses that reference a stiff neck in relation to to rebelliousness and stubbornness of God's people, the children of Israel. Actually though, we are the same in nature as they are and we should have no trust in ourselves. Rather we need to continually come to the Lord and receive Him into our being. And for this we need some flexible, pliable, supportive necks that match our Head.
So what exactly are the functions of the neck anyway? We don't really think about these things until it it stops functioning in the proper way. But for the most part the neck...
- Attaches the head to the trunk, or the rest of the body. (Wow...very significant if you look at in from the perspective of the Body of Christ. The neck is what connects the head, Christ, to the body, the church.)
- Supports the head and facilitates its movements (also significant, since without the neck the body can't move or support the head. God needs us for His move.)
- It is a conduit for: the respiratory, digestive and nervous system (That means our neck can affect our breathing, eating, feeling/sensitivity.)
- It accommodates the larynx, endocrine glands (It also affects our speaking and proper growth.)
- Conducts arteries, veins and lymphatics to/from the body to/from the head (Finally, it affects the circulation and fellowship of the body to the head and the head to the body)
I know I could be totally off in these things, but I think there may be something here. (The Lord cover me. I'm not preaching this as a doctrine or anything.) However, it does seem to me that our spiritual "neck" so to speak is very much related to our relationship with Christ our head and the His body, all the other believers on the earth. What we need in our spiritual life is a neck that is beautiful and flexible. This is a matter of our transformed (or our being transformed as we speak) will, which is submissive and obedient to the Lord. If we have such a will, there will be no pain for the Head or the Body...and wouldn't that be nice? I can't really remember, where I got this stuff, but I'm hoping that it is something that has been constituted into me from the ministry of our dear brother Witness Lee. Anyway...may the Lord soften our "necks" for His purpose and my physical neck also, unless it is working out something for His purpose.
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Carolyn I just stumbled on your blog when I googled <1000 Crucial Verses for a Seeking Believer>. I know this post is old but it was fresh for me. So I've been going through the book and this entry triggered a memory of what I read:
"Christ is a Person with the strongest personality! We can be assured that His personality is much stronger than ours, and that it can never be subdued by ours. He is waiting continually to subdue our personality with His" (Lee 13).
So how does this relate to the neck thing-- The Lord mentions the seeking one's neck as a tower of ivory (Song of Songs 7:4). "In chapter four her neck was depicted as the tower of David, but here it is described as a tower of ivory. The tower of David was for fighting, but the tower of ivory means that her neck is full of resurrection life. Ivory in typology signifies the Lord's resurection life. Now her neck is not only full of submission for fighting the spiritual warfare, but it is also full of the resurrection life. Her neck is a tower ministering life in resurrection" (135).
Anyway, I would have never figured this out on my own, but it's a really sweet picture of the Lord's relationship with His seekers. He needs our heart, but not all the things that come with it. So he needs to purify us, to subdue us, and to soften us to the mold of His will.
I don't know if I fully understand the Lord's resurrection life. This morning I came to its definition in 1 Corinthians 15. "Such a resurrection is our destiny. It is as sure as our birth and should never be questioned" (1 Cor 15:49 note 1). What I've gathered is that the Lord allows us to go through negative situations and suffering that we may go through them with God. Out of these He gains our cooperation. In His mercy, the situations make us desperate for Him. Then he subdues our will in order to graft us into His life, His will, and His plan.
I've enjoyed praying that the Lord would not only exercise His permissive will in my personal universe, but His perfect will in my life in cooperation according to His eternal plan. Thanks for posting. -Joanna Chu
*sorry, in the beginning of my comment, I meant "I've been going through the book " -Joanna
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