March
13
We are a part of a Body.
Many of our sufferings are not on our own account at all. Many of the
sufferings of the children of God have nothing whatever to do with their own
faults or their own failing. They are suffering in a related way, they are
suffering for the Body’s sake, they are entering into the battle; the conflict
of this one great testimony.
Sometimes it is almost
uncanny when the Lord has something in view in relation to His testimony of
Life, how for no reason whatever, on no account at all, we discover that we are
involved and ours is not an isolated experience. All sorts of people all over
the place are having the same kind of experience – a terrific sense of
pressure, upset, annoyance, anything to frustrate – it is happening all round,
testifying that in the spiritual realm, in the realm of the Spirit, there is a
fine, sensitive oneness which matters to the Lord, and therefore matters to the
enemy.
Do not always take your
sufferings as some controversy that the Lord has with you. That is the twist
the enemy often gives. Be open to the Lord to be checked up on anything, but do
not always take it that the things which are happening to you and causing you
trouble and suffering are due to your own failure or wrong. You are involved in
something very much more than that.
By T. Austin-Sparks from: The Testimony of
the Christ - Chapter 7
A postcard somebody gave me once. Please note the "Living Stones" I drew on His sleeve after he showed me that "in Christ" actually means in Christ!
No comments:
Post a Comment