Since we live by the
Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. Galatians 5:25
That
which is called Christianity is essentially a spiritual thing, and not an
earthly order or system, and every fragment of it has to be entered into in a spiritual
way, by way of Life and Revelation. There is all the difference between
imitation and Life. Oh, what a difference there is between seeing a thing in an
objective way and coming into it in Life! It is just there that the wonder, the
glory, the vitality, the energy, the power of things is found. You have perhaps talked for years
about things in the Word of God, as in the Word of God, and you believed them
and gave them out as truth, and after doing that for years suddenly you saw
what they meant, and the whole thing came in another way. All your talking, and preaching, and believing
before was quite true, quite right, correct as to doctrine, but what effect had
it on you? Now that it has broken like this it is transfiguring, and has
brought real joy and delight, life and ecstasy. That is what we mean by
entering into things by Life and by Revelation. In other words, it is coming
into things by the Spirit and seeing....
If
we become spiritual in this sense, if the Holy Spirit is the commanding reality
in our life, and we are walking by the Spirit, we are bound inevitably to come
into all God's thought. The Lord wants a people to come into His full thought.
That is only possible as they cease to be governed by some outward order of
things, and learn what it is to move with God in the Holy Spirit.
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