Knowing The Spirit (iii)
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.
As long as His presence is so little recognised, and His working straitened, how is He now to
be known ?
To this question the answer is very simple. To every one who honestly desires, not only to
know that he has the Spirit, but to know Him in His person, and as a personal possession and
Teacher, we say:
- Study the teaching of the Word in regard to the Spirit.
- Be not content with the teaching of men about the Spirit, but go to the Word.
- Be not content with your ordinary \’reading of the Word, or what you already know of
its doctrines. If you are in earnest to know the Spirit, go and search the Word specially
with this view, as one thirsting to drink deeply of the water of life. - Gather together all the Word says of the Spirit, His indwelling, and His work, and hide
it in your heart. - Be determined to accept of nothing but what the Word teaches, but also to accept
heartily of all it teaches.
But study the Word in dependence on the Spirit\’s teaching. If you study it with your human
wisdom, your study of it may only confirm you in your mistaken views. If you are a child of
God, you have the Holy Spirit to teach you, even though you do not yet know how He works
in you. - Ask the Father to work through Him in you, and to make the Word life and light in
you. If, in the spirit of humility, and trusting in God\’s guidance, you submit heartily to
the Word, You will find the promise surely fulfilled: you will be taught of God. - We have more than once spoken of the progress from the outward to the inward: be
whole-hearted in giving up all your thoughts and men\’s thoughts as you accept the
Word; ask God to reveal in you by His Spirit His thoughts concerning His Spirit: He
will assuredly do so.
Prayer: Please turn these 7 points into prayer