WALK IN THE SPIRIT

WALK IN THE SPIRIT

Hebrews 10 is very interesting: when faith carries you into the holiest, then you hold fast your hope. That is in heaven; by faith you are full of hope of being in heaven!

I sometimes think if it costs every one as much personal humiliation as I have gone through, to know as much of the Lord’s ways as I do, I could almost despair of seeing any one come on to what I think every saint ought to come up to. I find it has a wonderful magnetic power to say to myself, Follow the Lord, that is, that following Him makes up for the deprivation of everything else, and scenes and duties, for which I have little or no attraction, seem invested with something greater and deeper than attraction the moment I realise that I am thereto called as pleasing Him.

The measure of every christian is the measure of the Spirit’s work in him - the course of the Spirit in us, from which He never deviates. One may be too much occupied with the flesh and its failings, but the way is to be apart from the flesh altogether, and to walk in the Spirit. Through grace we have been transferred from Adam to Christ; we often mistake light for the ^[p. 436] work of the Spirit in us, that is, we may see a truth and enjoy it before it is wrought in us by the Spirit, then we are governed by it. I am much struck with the greatness of the truth that “ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit” (Romans 8: 9), and the complete revolution the carrying out of this honestly would effect. The more one maintains this truth, the more simple every divine way is to one; as the flesh has been ended before God, it is plain that everything owned by Him must be directed by the Spirit. Meditate much on those words - “Walk in the Spirit”!