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.
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