June
29
The words that I speak to you are Spirit,
and they are Life (John 6:63).
This Life is a very vast Life. It reaches into
God's great purpose, and we are a part of it; we are "the called according
to His purpose." We want to know the purpose; we want to know our place in
the purpose; we want to know our faculties, our functions. How shall this be?
Not by studying up what they are, but by being in Life. It may be very
interesting to have a scientific knowledge of the workings of our human bodies,
but it is not necessary in order to live. Live, and the thing happens. You
never have to consider whether you will take your next breath, to sit down and
make a mental problem of it. You do it, and everything else is bound up with
it, and follows in proper order. Breathing properly has a great deal bound up
with it. Well then, live and everything else will follow. That is only saying,
in other words: move, have your life in the Holy Spirit, and all the plan and
order of God will follow. You are bound to come into it, you cannot help
yourself.
Thus the object is to get the Lord's people to a
place where they walk with the Lord, and are so open to Him that they are
prepared for all that walking with Him means. Sometimes it will mean that they
will have to leave a great deal that is of a secondary character; perhaps
forsake many things, even religious things, the accepted things, to walk with
the Lord. There may be a price attached to it; misunderstanding, and
loneliness, and much besides; but if you are so open to the Lord that nothing
else matters, and you mean to walk with God whatever the cost, no matter what
people say you ought to do as (in their thought) a part of a great Christian
order or religious machine, you will come into all God's secret thought as naturally
as a flower opens to the sun, and you will be making discoveries and finding
that there is a vast realm of meaning and possibility and capacity and power
that you never dreamed of. The Lord is not going to stretch it out before us,
and show us it. We shall discover it as we walk in the Spirit.
By T. Austin-Sparks from: Life in the
Spirit - Chapter 6
This photograph is by Liz Burnell.
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