Reading and writing go hand in hand. As I read and study I am moved to write so that I can digest what I have read. As I write, I am emptied and find myself craving more to read. It is impossible for His manifold wisdom to be made know through one person. It takes the whole company of professed believers to reveal the Father.
On one hand, I need not be taught by another; on the other, I need Christ in you just as you need Christ in me. Paradox flows through the mystery of Christ like blood through veins. It is the enigma of our union in Christ. No longer one, now He is many; no longer separate, now we are one.
His intent was that now, through the church, the manifold [many-sided and varied] wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms, according to his eternal purpose which he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord. EPHESIANS 3:10-11 (NIV)
I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing the growth. So then neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but God who causes the growth. Now he who plants and he who waters are one; but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor. For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field , God’s building. According to the grace of God which was given to me, like a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another is building on it. But each man must be careful how he builds on it. For no man can lay a foundation other than the one which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 1 CORINTHIANS 3:6-11 (NASB)
He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross. COLOSSIANS 1:15-20 (NIV)
As for you, the anointing which you received from Him abides in you, and you have no need for anyone to teach you; but as His anointing teaches you about all things, and is true and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you abide in Him. 1 JOHN2:27 (NASB)
I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. HEBREWS 8:10-11 (KJV)