God… was pleased to reveal His Son in
me. Galatians 1:15,16
Spiritual
discernment, perception, understanding and intelligence are all too rare. The
causes are many. The engrossment with the work and its multifarious concerns;
the rush and hurry of life; the restless spirit of the age; these, with an
exhaustive provision of external religious facilities, all tend to render the
inner place of Divine speaking inoperative or impossible of functioning.
Perhaps we have forgotten that the Bible is not only a revelation, but also
contains a revelation, and that that deeper spiritual content is only possible
of recognition and realization by such as have had their eyes and ears opened;
in other words – who have been awakened. Some of the Lord's most faithful
servants are still only occupied with the letter of the Word, the contents of
books, topics, themes, subjects, outlines, analyses, etc., and in the deepest
sense are not in "revelation." (This is not meant as a criticism).
The difference too often is that of a ministry to the mind or head, and not one
to the heart or spirit. The former will sooner or later tire and weary both the
minister and those ministered to. The latter is a ministry of Life to both, and
is inexhaustible in freshness.
Whether
it comes at the beginning or later, it is the greatest day in our history of
which we can say: "It pleased God to reveal His Son in me."
"I received it, not from men but by revelation." That is the
beginning of an inwardness of things which may have many critical issues. One
of these is the one of which we are particularly thinking now, namely, the
awakening to see what is the thought and desire of God at given and specific
times. Such a revelation – through the Scriptures – is nothing less than revolutionary,
though usually costly.
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