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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