Saturday, April 12, 2014

Toward the Greater

"Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh ... If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit" (Galatians 5:16, 25)

The Holy Spirit is a living Person and should be treated s a person. We must never think of Him as a blind energy nor as an impersonal force. He hears and sees and feels as any person does. He speaks and hears us speak.

We can please Him or grieve Him or silence Him as we can any other person. He will respond to our timid effort to know Him and will ever meet us over half the way.

However wonderful the crisis experience of being filled with the Spirit, we should remember that it is only a means toward something greater: that great thing is the lifelong walk in the Spirit, indwelt, directed, taught and empowered by His mighty Person. And to continue thus to walk in the Spirit requires that we meet certain conditions.

These are laid down for us in the sacred Scriptures and there all to see.

The highest point of Christian experience is to press forward. It is a distinguishing trait in the character of every good man, that he grows in grace.

~A. W. Tozer~

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