February
7
My yoke is easy, and My
burden is light (Matthew 11:30).
Dear friends, if any
truth has the effect of turning you in upon yourself, making you introspective,
self-occupied in a spiritual way, that truth has been wrongly apprehended. You
may assume the position of the most spiritual, but you are all wrong in your
apprehension. This great work which Christ did in His Cross was never intended
to make anybody miserable. Of course, that goes without saying; yet there are
multitudes who are miserable after trusting the Lord, miserable over the sin
question in their lives; and the number, I am afraid, is increasing. Always
keep a very distinct and broad line between fuller revelation, deeper truth
(whatever you may term it – all that going-on-to-full-growth realm of things)
and this whole matter of introspection.
Some people seem to
think that to become more spiritual we must become more intense and tied-up and
occupied with this whole matter of the spiritual life, and really they are the
most unbearable people, the joy has gone out of them. I am certain of this,
that nothing will ever come to you, however deep, however mighty, however
tremendous, by revelation of the Holy Spirit, that will make
you miserable. The revelation of Jesus Christ by the Holy Spirit – and there is
no other revelation – will never make a soul miserable. There is something
wrong if a Christian is miserable on spiritual matters, and it is either
failure to apprehend the one great, absolute reality that the victory was God’s
and that He won it in Christ, fully and finally, and we are not called to share
at all in that battle; or the truth which has come subsequently has been
misapprehended and has become something that is a burden grievous to be borne.
The Lord Jesus said, “My yoke is easy, and My burden is light” (Matt. 11:30).
From Daily Open Windows by T. Austin-Sparks.
This photograph is by Jo Chaney.
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