The Power of His Resurrection # 31

The Nature of the Life and Testimony of the Lord's People (continued)

2 Kings 3 and 4

The Supreme Need: Fullness of Resurrection Life (continued)

Here is a woman who had the child, and that is wonderful. When we are born again it is a miracle, a  glorious thing. But when the Lord takes  us through experiences to bring us to know Him in the power of His resurrection in our very being - not something done outside of ourselves, but something which has been done in us - and we are taken through deep depths, until in our very being we come to know Him and the power of His resurrection, that is sonship, that is the Testimony. The Testimony in its fullness is not bound up with spiritual infants, it is bound up with spiritual maturity. This woman was great, and yet there was a "but"! We may have a great deal, even in our Christian lives and in our Christian work, and yet there may remain that "but." There may be so much of it external, on the surface. The necessity is that that shall come right down into the depths of our inner being, so that we know Him in the very substance of our being as the Resurrection, and the Life.

It is only as the Lord's people come to that position that they are constituted a vessel of His full Testimony, and that explains why He takes us now, as His children, through the depths, that we may so learn to know Him.

Whatever the direction the principle remains the same, whether for conflict, as with the hostile forces around, or service, in the meeting of obligations, or in life, the coming to fullness of the Lord's thought. The one governing law is "Him and the power of His resurrection"; knowing the risen life of the Lord.

~T. Austin-Sparks~

(continued with # 32 - (The Healing of Naaman - 2 Kings 5)