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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