June 8th — WHAT NEXT?
June 8th.WHAT NEXT?
Determine to know more than others. "If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them." John 8:17
If you do not cut the moorings, God wil have to break them by a storm and send you out. Launch al on God, go out on the great swel ing tide of His purpose, and you wil get your eyes open. If you believe in Jesus, you are not to spend al your time in the smooth waters just inside the harbour bar, ful of delight, but always moored; you have to get out through the harbour bar into the great deeps of God and begin to know for yourself, begin to have spiritual discernment.
When you know you should do a thing, and do it, immediately you know more. Revise where you have become stodgy spiritual y, and you wil find it goes back to a point where there was something you knew you should do, but you did not do it because there seemed no immediate cal to, and now you have no perception, no discernment; at a time of crisis you are spiritual y distracted instead of spiritual y self-possessed. It is a dangerous thing to refuse to go on knowing.
The counterfeit of obedience is a state of mind in which you work up occasions to sacrifice yourself; ardour is mistaken for discernment. It is easier to sacrifice yourself than to fulfil your spiritual destiny, which is stated in Romans 12:1-2. It is a great deal better to fulfil the purpose of God in your life by discerning His wil than to perform great acts of self-sacrifice. "To obey is better than sacrifice." Beware of harking back to what you were once when God wants you to be something you have never been. "If any man wil do . . . he shal know."