His
name is the Word of God. Revelation 19:13
There is one all-governing fact which runs right through the
ages. It is that Christ is in all the thoughts and ways of God. That is a
statement that is comprehensive. Through all the ages, in all the thoughts of
God, and in all the ways of God, Christ is central, Christ is supreme.
Everything relates to Him, and everything connects with Him; Christ is the end,
for Christ was the beginning. If we could stand by the side of God and see
through God’s eyes, and become governed by God’s mentality, we should recognize
that God has but one thought and that one thought is influencing Him in every
one of His dealings with men, with nations, and with the world throughout all
the ages. That one thought centers in His Son, Jesus Christ, and therefore the
very essence of revelation, and the very heart of spiritual enlightenment is
that you see Christ in all those thoughts and ways of God as they are expressed
in His Word and in His activities.
If you ask: "What is revelation, what is it to have
spiritual enlightenment?" The answer is this: that you are able to see in
a living and ever-growing way God’s thoughts as centered in Christ. We could
put that in another way, and say that you are growingly able to see Christ and
His place and His meaning in this universe, that this universe is interpreted
and explained in the light of Christ, and that everything in our own lives in
God’s dealings with us, is connected with Christ in some way. If that is true
universally, and if that is true sovereignly and providentially; if that is
true not only in the whole history of things in this universe, but true in a
special way in human life, it is true, perhaps, in the most essential way in
the Word of God as the expression of God’s thought. So that revelation,
spiritual illumination, is to see Christ in all the Word of God; not truths,
not doctrines, but Christ.... The question then, that we ever need to ask, is:
In what way does this or that lead us to Christ? In what way does this mean an
increase of Christ, a knowledge of Him in a living and experimental way? We are
looking for what is of Christ.
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