Section 9
testimony meeting." This brother's motive for healing was to be able to give a testimony. He sought an experience in order to have some thing to talk about. Oh! This superficial kind of living brings grave loss to us; it rules out the possibility of spiritual progress.
TESTIFYING WITHOUT EXHIBITING
Then should we not bear testimony? Yes, we should. Paul did so, and multitudes of God's chil dren from generation to generation have done so too. But bearing testimony is one thing; de lighting in exhibiting one's experience is quite another. What is our object in testifying? Is it that others may profit or that we may have the pleasure of talking? The love of hearing one's own voice and the desire to be helpful to others are two totally different things. We testify be cause there is a problem, and we have to speak about it. A testimony is not an after meal conver sation piece. Many times while we gossip, spiri tual riches leak away. When the Lord so leads, we should testify because we want to render help to others. Paul testified in 2 Corinthians 12, but he did not lightly disclose his experience four teen years earlier. He hid his experience for fourteen years, and no one knew about it. Even