Only Servants of Truth Can Know the Truth

     By A. W. Tozer
 

    . . .So is every one that is born of the Spirit.  John 3:8

        Only the servants of truth can ever know truth.  You
    can fill your head full of knowledge, but the day that you
    decide that you are going to obey God, it will get down
    into your heart.  You shall know!

        I once read a book about the inner life of a man who
    was a sharp intellectual.  By his own admission, he stood
    outside and examined spiritual people from the outside,
    but nothing ever reached him.  And that's possible!

        You cannot argue around this.  Read your Bible---any
    version you want---and if you are honest, you will admit
    that it is either obedience or inward blindness.  You can
    repeat the Book of Romans word for word and still be
    blind inwardly.  You can know the doctrine of justifica-
    tion by faith and take your stand with Luther and the
    Reformation, and still be blind inwardly.  For it is not the
    body of truth that enlightens: it is by the Spirit of truth.

        If you are willing to obey the Lord Jesus, He will
    illuminate your spirit, inwardly enlighten you; and the
    truth you have known will then be known spiritually,
    and power will begin to flow up and out and you will
    find yourself changed----marvelously changed.

        It is rewarding to believe in a Christianity that really
    changes men and women.  In that great day of Christ's
    coming, all that will matter is whether we have
    been  inwardly illuminated,  inwardly regenerated,
    inwardly purified!

        The question is: do we really know Jesus in this way?

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    Yours in Christ,
    Paul N. F.