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It doesn't matter
what your experience is or how skilled you have been in living
out the Christian life. If you are not fresh in the Lord, you
are like the writer of Ecclesiastes - your vision is horizontal. The freshness that heaven offers does not come apart from the presence of God and the revelation of Jesus, but it is so easy for the believer to slip into the "on the track" mode. Even without knowing it, we have a gravitational pull to "what works" - that is, our flesh craves security. That is why it is so important to come as the Psalmist says "with clean hands, raised unto the Lord. . ." and state as Paul did, that we make a show of the knowledge of nothing "save Jesus Christ, and Him crucified." Real experience with God teaches us to avoid reliance on human experience because our lives are just museum composites of what has been. What God does is never what has been, and even in the story of each heart given to the Lord, there is an element that is unique to that individual, and although it may appear on the outside to be repeated in the next story, it is not so. That is how infinitely varied our God is. So, the man who relies on his own sense of touch in a situation, sets up a future based on the past. Many of today's ministers have fallen into this trap. If only we could take the Lord at His word and learn to follow, lean and wait, we would know God's creativity in the smallest and greatest moments. |
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