The river is the Holy Ghost the planting, the deep, abiding life in which, not occasionally, but habitually, we absorb the Holy Spirit and the fruit is not occasional, but continual, and appropriate to each changing season. “And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season his leaf also shall not wither, and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.” “His delight is in the law of the Lord, and in His law doth he meditate day and night.”ģ. “He walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.”Ģ. “Blessed is the man that walketh not” (Ps. Our business is to use the light He has given, and then He will give whatever more we need. Many persons are asking God to give them peculiar signs, tokens and supernatural intimations of His will. There are some things about which we do not need to pray, as much as to take the light which God has already given. The result was deliverance from a cloud of unbelief which was almost wrecking a Christian life. We met a friend the other day, who had been in years of darkness because God had failed to answer certain prayers, and the result had been a state bordering on infidelity.Ī very few moments were sufficient to convince this friend that these prayers had been entirely unauthorized, and that God had never promised to answer such prayers, and they were for things which this friend should have accomplished himself, in the exercise of ordinary wisdom. It needs as much wisdom to pray rightly as it does faith to receive the answers to our prayers. We need to watch for prayers as well as for the answers to our prayers. The Holy Spirit is willing to form such habits in every direction of our Christian life, and if we will but obey Him in the first steppings of faith, we will soon become established in the attitude of obedience, and duty will be delight. We have to take a stand and hold it steadily, and after we have done so a certain time, it becomes second nature, and carries us by its own force. The first stages always involve effort and choice. They begin, like every true habit, in a definite act of will, and they are confirmed by the repetition of that act until it becomes a habit. So God leads us into spiritual conditions and habits which become the spontaneous impulses of our being, and we live and move in the fulness of the divine life.īut these spiritual habits are not the outcome of some transitory impulse, but are often slowly acquired and established.
The highest spiritual condition is one where life is spontaneous and flows without effort, like the deep floods of Ezekiel's river, where the struggles of the swimmer ceased, and he was borne by the current's resistless force. “I will cause you to walk in My statutes” (Eze. Sometimes it is a moment of time to be saved sometimes a soul to be led to Christ sometimes it is an occasion for love sometimes for patience: sometimes for victory over temptation and sin. “Walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, buying up for yourselves the opportunity.” Be spiritually alert be not unwise, but understanding what the will of God is.
It is intimated that there are not many such moments of opportunity, because the days are evil like a barren desert, in which, here and there, you find a flower, pluck it while you can like a business opportunity which comes a few times in a life-time buy it up while you have the chance.
Wherefore art thou borderlands the pre sequel full#
They do not refer to time in general, but to a special point of time, a juncture, a crisis, a moment full of possibilities and quickly passing by, which we must seize and make the best of before it has passed away. They are translated “ ton kairon” in the revised version, “Buying up for yourselves the opportunity.” The two words ton kairon mean, literally, the opportunity. Two little words are found in the Greek version here.
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