March
27
If
we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit (Galatians 5:25 ESV).
That which is called
Christianity is essentially a spiritual thing, and not an earthly order or
system, and every fragment of it has to be entered into in a spiritual way, by
way of Life and Revelation. There is all the difference between imitation and
Life. Oh, what a difference there is between seeing a thing in an objective way
and coming into it in Life! It is just there that the wonder, the glory, the
vitality, the energy, the power of things is found. You have
perhaps talked for years about things in the Word of God, as in the Word of
God, and you believed them and gave them out as truth, and after doing that for
years suddenly you saw what they meant, and the whole thing came in another
way. All your talking, and preaching, and believing before was quite true,
quite right, correct as to doctrine, but what effect had it on you? Now that it
has broken like this it is transfiguring, and has brought real joy and delight,
life and ecstasy. That is what we mean by entering into things by Life and by
Revelation. In other words, it is coming into things by the Spirit and
seeing....
If we become spiritual
in this sense, if the Holy Spirit is the commanding reality in our life, and we
are walking by the Spirit, we are bound inevitably to come into all God's
thought. The Lord wants a people to come into His full thought. That is only
possible as they cease to be governed by some outward order of things, and
learn what it is to move with God in the Holy Spirit.
By T. Austin-Sparks from: Life in the
Spirit - Chapter 6
This photograph is by Jo Chaney.
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