To him who overcomes, I will give some
of the hidden manna to eat. Revelation 2:17
God
always keeps the revelation of Himself in Christ bound up with practical
situations. You and I can never get revelation other than in connection with
some necessity. We cannot get it simply as a matter of information. That is
information, that is not revelation. We cannot get it by studying. When the
Lord gave the manna in the wilderness (a type of Christ as the Bread from
heaven), He stipulated very strongly that not one fragment more than the day's
need was to be gathered, and that if they went beyond the measure of immediate
need, disease and death would break out and overtake them. The principle, the
law, of the manna, is that God keeps revelation of Himself in Christ bound up
with practical situations of necessity, and we are not going to have revelation
as mere teaching, doctrine, interpretation, theory, or anything as a thing,
which means that God is going to put you and me into situations where only the
revelation of Christ can help us and save us....
Now then,
that is why the Lord would keep us in situations which are acute, real. The
Lord is against our getting out on theoretical lines with truth, out on
technical lines. Oh, let us shun technique as a thing in itself and recognize
this, that, although the New Testament has in it a technique, we cannot merely
extract the technique and apply it. We have to come into New Testament
situations to get a revelation of Christ to meet that situation. So that the
Holy Spirit's way with us is to bring us into living, actual conditions and
situations, and needs, in which only some fresh knowledge of the Lord Jesus can
be our deliverance, our salvation, our life, and then to give us, not a
revelation of truth, but a revelation of the Person, new knowledge of the Person,
that we come to see Christ in some way that just meets our need. We are not
drawing upon an "it," but upon a "Him."
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