THERE CANNOT BE WALK BEYOND YOUR STATE - THE SNARE OF THE MOABITE
THERE CANNOT BE WALK BEYOND YOUR STATE - THE SNARE OF THE MOABITE
I know something of the tornado which sweeps away the whole of one’s nest! I have fancied a bird surveying after the storm the place where its nest once was, but it is gone [p. 215] The more simply you are cast on the Lord the better you will know that they who sow in tears shall reap in joy. This is true of every event in our lives, the evening before the morning.
How much of the faith once delivered to the saints (and within this century recovered) will they retain who, while accepting the calling of a Christian, sanction or permit an amount of worldliness? Isaiah 3 describes the present state of things. In order to escape from self-occupation, they make standing everything, and have lost or overlooked the divine state. Ephesians 3: 16 you will not require hereafter. It is the state given of God now for the one who is in heavenly association. If you do not know that prayer now you never will know it, because in glory you will be far beyond it. There cannot be walk beyond your state. You must make the tree good, and the fruit will be good. A great deal of walk is commendable to man because it is towards man, but there is more of “Martha” in it than of “Mary”, and in many things what is highly esteemed among men is not acceptable with God.... The beginning, and the kernel of all mischief amongst us is Balaam — sociality in some form with the Moabites. The hall-door is closed against the world, but worldly relations are admitted by the side door, and this and that is retained in order to be agreeable to one’s company. If you trace any departure to its source, you are sure to find it originated with the Moabite. It is simply a question whether I am fashioned by the world or by Christ. I cannot adopt the latter, but as I am in His presence; then I am transformed. I — ‘With adoring fervour, in this Thy nature grow.’ I need not write all this to you, but I am so impressed with the state of things that I cannot conceal it.