If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in
the Spirit. (Galatians 5:25).
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.
From:
Life in the Spirit - Chapter 6