Only One Revelation

"According to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Spirit" (Titus 3:5)

I have always felt that when we read and study the Word of God we should have great expectations. We should ask the Holy Spirit to reveal the Person, the glory and the eternal ministry of our Lord Jesus Christ. Perhaps our problem is in our approach. Perhaps we have simply read our Bibles as we might read a piece of literature or a textbook.

In today's society, great numbers of people seem unable to deal with God's revelation in Christ. They run and hide, just as Adam and Eve did. Today, however, they do not hide behind trees but behind such things as philosophy and reason and even theology - believe it or not! This attitude is hard to understand.

In Jesus' death for our sins, God is offering far more than escape from the much-deserved hell. God is promising us an amazing future, an eternal future. I often wonder if we are making it plain enough to our generation that there will be no other revelation from God except as He speaks it through our Lord Jesus Christ.

A real Christian is an odd number. He feels supreme love for One whom he has never seen...dies so he can live ... sees the invisible, hears the inaudible, and knows that which passeth knowledge.

~A. W. Tozer~

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Revelation - By His Spirit, Through His Word

"With my whole heart have I sought Thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments" (Psalm 119:10).

Years ago my family and I enjoyed Christian fellowship with a Jewish medical doctor who had come to personal faith in Jesus, the Saviour and Messiah. He gladly discussed with me his previous participation in Sabbath services in the synagogue.

"I often think back on those years of reading from the Old Testament," he told me. "I had the haunting sense that it was ood the feeling that something was missing." Then, with a beautiful radiant smile he added, "When I found Jesus as my personal Saviour and Messiah, I found Him to be the One to whom the Old Testament was in fact pointing. I found Him to be the answer to my completion as a Jew, as a person and as a believer."

Whether Jew or Gentile, we were made originally in God's image, and the revelation of God by His Spirit is a necessity. An understanding of the Word of God must come from the same Spirit who provided its inspiration.

The Holy Spirit never comes into a vacuum, but where the Word of God is, there is fuel, and the fire falls.

~A. W. Tozer~