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.