Bro. John:
The Spirit woke me early this a.m. with something very simple but sobering.
“The words of Jesus are not just to read. They are to apply to our lives.”
When the Spirit comes with a simple truth like this, it makes you stop and examine yourself. It also makes me want to read again every word Jesus spoke. I love waking up to sobering thoughts that cut through the foolishness of this world.
Sandy
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Amen, Sandy. The way of the Spirit and of faith is not about God’s people waiting to hear “some new thing”, as the philosophers in Athens used to do (Acts 17). It is about rejoicing in the simple way which has already been revealed and established by God, the way that is already “nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart”. We rejoice because of what God has already given us and already promised us, and we seek no other doctrine but what the Spirit which we have already received teaches us. What Jesus has done for us already, and what he is doing, and what Jesus has already said to us, and is saying, and who Jesus is, and who he will always be, is enough.
jdc