Prayerful Inner~searching
PRAYERFUL
INNER~SEARCHING
“May your whole spirit,
soul, and body be preserved blameless . . .” (1 Thessalonians 5:23)
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our
whole spirit . . .” The great, mysterious work of the Holy Spirit is in the
deep recesses of our being which we cannot reach. Read Psalm 139. The psalmist
implies—“O Lord, You are the God of the early mornings, the God of the late
nights, the God of the mountain peaks, and the God of the sea. But my God, my
soul has horizons further away than those of early mornings, deeper darkness
than the nights of earth, higher peaks than any mountain peaks, greater depths
than any sea in nature. You who are the God of all these, be my God. I cannot
reach to the heights or to the depths; there are motives I cannot discover,
dreams I cannot realize. My God, search me.”
Do we believe that God can fortify
and protect our thought processes far beyond where we can go? “. . . the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses
us from all sin” (1 John 1:7). If this verse means cleansing only on our
conscious level, may God have mercy on us. The man who has been dulled by sin
will say that he is not even conscious of it. But the cleansing from sin we
experience will reach to the heights and depths of our spirit if we will reach
to the heights and depths of our spirit if we will “walk in the light as He is
in the light” (1:7). The same Spirit that fed the life of Jesus Christ will
feed the life of our spirit. It is only when we are protected by God with the
miraculous sacredness of the Holy Spirit that our spirit, soul, and body can be
preserved in pure uprightness until the coming of Jesus—no longer condemned in
God’s sight.
We should more frequently allow our
minds to meditate on these great, massive truths of God.
MY
UTMOST FOR HIS HIGHEST
OSWALD
CHAMBERS
Edited by James Reimann
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