EXTRACT

As we grow in the blessed grace of God, and abide in the Son of God, we are spiritually formed according to God. It is not only that we become more familiar with the letter and doctrine of things, but the truth forms our affections so that we are enlarged in our knowledge and appreciation of the Father and the Son. Thus coming up to the stature of "young men" (1 John 2.14), we become capable of intelligent discernment, and we recognize that the world and its things are not of the Father. We do not need to go into the merits or demerits of things in detail. We have a judgment of the whole system, and of all that it contains. It is "not of the Father". Through grace we find our blessedness and joy in another system of things where everything is of the Father – things that have their eternal Centre in Christ glorified at the right hand of God.

C.A.Coates ‘The Paths of Life’, p.54