Knowing The Spirit (i)
SCRIPTURE: The Spirit of Truth whom the world cannot receive, for it seeth Him not,
neither knoweth Him: Ye know Him; for He abideth with you, and shall be in you.\’- John 14: 17.
\’Know ye not that ye are a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?’ -1 Cor. 3:16.
THE value of knowledge, that is, true spiritual knowledge, in the life of faith can hardly be
exaggerated. Just as a man on earth is none the richer for an inheritance that comes to him, or
a treasure in his field, as long as he does not know of it, or does not know how to get
possessed of it, and to use it,-so the gifts of God\’s Grace cannot bring their full blessing
until we know and, in knowing, truly apprehend and possess them.
In Christ are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge; it is the excellency of the
knowledge of Christ Jesus, his Lord, for which the believer is willing to count all things but
loss. It is owing to the want of a true knowledge of what God in Christ has prepared for us
that the lives of believers are so low and feeble.
PRAYER- The prayer Paul offered for the Ephesians– that the Father would give them
the Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, the eyes of their heart being
enlightened, that they might know the hope of their calling, and the riches of the
inheritance, and the exceeding goodness of the power working in them– is one we never
can pray enough, whether for ourselves or for others.
But of what special importance it is that we should know the Teacher through whom all the
other knowledge is to come! The Father has given each one of His children not only Christ,
who is the truth, the reality of all life and grace, but the Holy Spirit, who is the very Spirit of
Christ and the Truth. \’ We received the Spirit, which is of God, that we might know the things
which are freely given us by God.\’