The words that I speak to you are Spirit, and they are Life. (John 6:63)
This Life is a very vast Life. It reaches into God's great
purpose, and we are a part of it;
we are "the called according to His purpose." We want
to know the purpose; we want to know our place in the
purpose; we want to know our faculties, our functions.
How shall this be? Not by studying up what they are,
but by being in Life. It may be very interesting to have a
scientific knowledge of the workings of our human
bodies, but it is not necessary in order to live. Live, and
the thing happens. You never have to consider whether
you will take your next breath, to sit down and make a
mental problem of it. You do it, and everything else is
bound up with it, and follows in proper order. Breathing
properly has a great deal bound up
with it. Well then, live and everything else will follow.
That is only saying, in other words: move, have your life
in the Holy Spirit, and all the plan and order of God will
follow. You are bound to come into it, you cannot help
yourself.
Thus the object is to get the Lord's people to a place
where they walk with the Lord, and are so open to Him
that they are prepared for all that walking with Him
means. Sometimes it will mean that they will have to
leave a great deal that is of a secondary character;
perhaps forsake many things, even religious things, the
accepted things, to walk with the Lord. There may be a
price attached to it; misunderstanding, and loneliness,
and much besides; but if you are so open to the Lord
that nothing else matters, and you mean to walk with
God whatever the cost, no matter what people say you
ought to do as (in their thought) a part of a great
Christian order or religious machine, you will come into
all God's secret thought as naturally as a flower opens to
the sun, and you will be making discoveries and finding
that there is a vast realm of meaning and possibility and
capacity and power that you never dreamed of. The Lord is not going to stretch it out before us, and show us it. We shall
discover it as we walk in the Spirit.