Only Servants of Truth Can Know the Truth

By A. W. Tozer

Just as you can hear the wind but can't tell where it comes
from or where it will go next, so it is with the Spirit. We do not
know on whom he will next bestow this life from heaven."
 --- 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 justification 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.