SPIRIT LED: WE WILL OBEY THE WORD OF GOD

                            By A. W. Tozer

      And it is the Spirit that beareth witness,

        because the Spirit is truth          -- 1 John 5:6

   When the Holy Spirit is in full control of our lives. He

 will expect our obedience to the written Word of God.

    But it is part of our human problem that we would like

 to be full of the Spirit and yet go on and do as we please!

    The Holy Spirit who inspired the Scriptures will

 expect obedience to the Scriptures, and if we do not give

 that obedience, we will quench Him. This Spirit will

 have obedience; but people do not want to obey the

 Lord. Everyone of us is as full as he wants to be. Every-

 one has as much of God as he desires to have. We do not

 want to meet the conditions.

    Let's use an expensive Cadillac automobile for an

illustration.  Here is Brother Jones, who would love to

drive a Cadillac. But he is not going to buy one, and I will

tell you why. He does not want a Cadillac badly enough

to be willing to pay the price for it. Certainly he wants

it, but he does not want it with that kind of desire; so

he is going to continue to drive his old Chevrolet!

    Now, it is plain that many people want to be filled with

the Spirit, but it is not with that kind of extreme desire that

will not be denied. So, we settle for something less!

   We do say, "Lord, I would like to be full; it would be

wonderful!" but we are not willing to proceed to meet His

terms. 

   We do not want to pay the price: the Holy Spirit will

expect loving obedience to the Word of God!

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Yours in Christ,

 

    Paul N. F.