April
28
The people who know their God shall stand
firm and take action (Daniel 11:32 ESV).
How much do you depend upon conferences and
teachers to keep you going? Must you attend meetings just because you feel that
the "last lot" you got has been used up and you must get a fresh supply? Or have
you been emancipated from all human props and put into a place of glorious
independence, because you KNOW YOUR GOD? It doesn't matter if you are plunged
into the middle of the Sahara, you know your God and can stand
independently of all natural helps – this thing has become YOU! That is the
kind of knowledge that means power. That is the kind of experience which
overcomes the world. That is the kind of thing that makes all the other systems
go down, and you rise triumphantly above them. That was the secret of the
apostolic church. Let kings do what they like, let the people rage – it goes
on, and it is the Roman Empire that goes to pieces before this thing, and not
this thing that goes down before the Roman Empire. It is an independent, personal knowledge of God, resultant from an inward birth, that lives. Not only
an objective truth, but a subjective power, and it is a great day when the
slightest fragment of known truth becomes a vital personal experience in its
working ability. That is what we want. First-hand knowledge, not second-hand
truth.
May God work this into our very beings until it
becomes us. Take it in fragments if you like, and ask the Lord to work it out
in you and make it live in you.
By T. Austin-Sparks from: The People That
Do Exploits
This photograph is by Eric Jonas Swensson of Sound Shore Media.
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