THE SPIRIT'S PATH

THE SPIRIT’S PATH

I have been greatly interested in seeing that the sure mark of justification and deliverance is that the Spirit is your one continual resource. It is only in the Spirit that you can be clear of the flesh, and if you are clear, you cleave to Him who makes you clear, and the next thing is you are in the fellowship of the Spirit who is here in Christ’s name.

I feel it is very important to press 1 John 5: 13, which shows that the object of the epistle is that you may know; that is, have conscious knowledge of eternal life. Where would things here be to us if we were truly and consciously in it? How varied are the ways which the Lord employs to effect the end He desires for His own! Oh, how we can justify Him and thank Him when the trial is over!

It is striking that those who are obscure about eternal life are dark on every point of truth, whether it is the gospel or deliverance, or the Spirit, or being over Jordan, or any other part of truth. As to the testimony, Christ’s present interest, they seem to ignore it, or rather to know nothing about it.

We see in Haggai that we cannot be in company with the Spirit unless the interest of God at the time is our paramount interest. How few there are with whom it is paramount, and where it is not we are neither ready for the communications of the Spirit, nor able to apprehend them. How ready was Anna the prophetess! She could see in the child Jesus what many could not.... How could the Lord’s chief interest be over until He comes?

We are reading 2 Timothy for our morning reading and are interested and encouraged at the way Paul was upheld in a more trying time than ours. The Lord keep you in concert with Himself. “Shall I hide front Abraham the thing which I do?” (Genesis 18: 17).