If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit. (Galatians 5:25 ESV)
That which is called Christianity is essentially a spiritual thing, and not an
earthly order or system, and every fragment of it has to be entered into in a
spiritual way, by way of Life and Revelation. There is all the difference
between imitation and Life. Oh, what a difference there is between seeing a
thing in an objective way and coming into it in Life! It is just there that the
wonder, the glory, the vitality, the energy, the power of things is found. You
have perhaps talked for years about things in the Word
of God, as in the Word of God, and you believed them
and gave them out as truth, and after doing that for years
suddenly you saw what they meant, and the whole thing
came in another way. All your talking, and
preaching, and believing before was quite true, quite
right, correct as to doctrine, but what effect had it on
you? Now that it has broken like this it is transfiguring,
and has brought real joy and delight, life and ecstasy.
That is what we mean by entering into things by Life and
by Revelation. In other words, it is coming into things by
the Spirit and seeing....
If we become spiritual in this sense, if the Holy Spirit is the commanding
reality in our life, and we are walking by the Spirit, we are bound inevitably
to come into all God's thought. The Lord wants a people to come into His full
thought. That is only possible as they cease to be governed by some outward
order of things, and learn what it is to move with God in the Holy Spirit.