Knowing The Spirit (v)
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.
We shall also know Him, and that still more certainly and intimately, as we not only yield
ourselves to that life He works, but as we study the personal relation in which a believer
stands to Him, and the way in which His working may most fully be experienced. The habit of
soul the Spirit desires is contained in the one word-faith.
- Faith has ever to do with the Invisible, with what appears to man most unlikely. When the
Divine appeared in Jesus, in what a lowly form was it hidden! Thirty years, He lived in
Nazareth, and they had seen nothing in Him but the son of a carpenter. It was only with His
baptism that His Divine Sonship came into complete and perfect consciousness. - Even to His disciples His Divine glory was often hidden. How much more when the Life
of God enters the depths of our sinful being, will it be matter of faith to recognize it! Let us
meet the Spirit in holy, humble faith. Let us not be content just to know that the Spirit is in
us: that will profit us but little. - Let us cultivate the habit, in each -religious exercise, of bowing reverently in silence before
God, to give the Spirit, the recognition that is His due, and - Keep down the will of the flesh that is so ready with its service of God. Let us wait on the
Spirit in deep dependence. Let us have a season of quiet meditation, in which we enter the
inner temple of our heart, to see that all there is indeed surrendered to the Spirit, and then
bow before the Father to ask and expect from Him the mighty working of the Holy Spirit.
However, little we see or feel, let us believe.
PRAYER: If we know the Spirit in a little way we will not be able to deal with the
invisible and so doubts arise? Do you doubt at critical times?