The Leading of the Spirit
The Leading of the Spirit
Many Christians have a mistaken, natural con cept regarding the leading of the Spirit. People in variably think that the leading of the Spirit comes suddenly from the third heaven or elsewhere. Some ask the Lord for a sign or an indicator.
Have you noticed the first word in verse 14 regarding the Lord's leading is "For," a word which refers us back to what Paul has mentioned previously and which indicates that verse 14 is a continuation of that matter. The main point of the previous verses is to walk according to the spirit that we might fulfill the righteous re quirement of the law of God. We may have the leading of the Spirit by walking according to the spirit.
The leading of the Spirit does not derive from nor depend upon outward things. The leading of the Spirit is an issue of the inner life. I would say that it comes from the sense of life, from the consciousness of the divine life within us. The word life is mentioned at least five times in Romans 8. Hence, the leading of the Spirit is a matter of life, a matter of the sense and con sciousness of life. The mind set upon the spirit is life (v. 6). How can we know that life? Not by