You desire truth in the inner being. (Psalm 51:6)
In the course of
our spiritual history God deals with us in ever-deepening ways. Down, down,
down, He goes, until He touches bottom to have things true at our very depth.
He undercuts all our professions, doctrines, assumptions, pretensions,
illusions, and customs.... There is no mere
formalism about this; no mere Jewish ritual in this; no mere outward
observance of rites and ceremonies in this! No! This has got to go right into
the inmost being, in the inward parts. God works toward that. God is
ever working toward the most inward parts. Do you recognize that? Do you
understand what He is doing with us? Oh, He will meet us with blessing on a
certain level, as we walk before Him, like the man in Psalm 1. He will
meet us with His gracious provision when we transgress and trespass and fail,
and do wrong – He will meet us there in grace. But God is going to pursue this
matter to the most inward place of our being, and register there His work of
grace and redemption.
The Godhead, Father, Son
and Holy Spirit, are characterized by this one feature –
truth! And God desires and has set His heart upon having
people who are partakers of the Divine nature, and so He
is working ever more deeply toward this end: what is true
of Himself shall be true of His children – those begotten
of Him – that they should be true sons of God in
this sense.