Joh 7:18 He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.
You and I are going to face God sometime. We are
going to come face to face with God literally in eternity and then the
question is going to arise, has God at any point failed us?
Shall we be
able, on any detail, to say, "Lord, You failed me, You were not true to
Your word"? Such a position is unthinkable, that ever any being should
be able to lay a charge like that at God's door, to have any question as
to God's truth, reality, and faithfulness.
The Holy Spirit has been
sent as the Spirit of truth to guide us into all the truth, so that
there shall be no shadow whatever between God and ourselves as to His
absolute faithfulness, His truth to Himself, and to all His word. The
Holy Spirit has come for that.
If that is true, then the Holy Spirit
will deal with all disciples in the School of Christ to undercut
everything that is not true, that is not genuine, to make every such
disciple to stand upon a foundation which can abide before God in the
day of His absolute and utter vindication.
But in order that this may be
so, you and I, under the Holy Spirit's teaching, have to be dealt with
very faithfully, and have to come to the place where we are perfectly
adjustable before God, where there is all responsiveness to the Holy
Spirit, and nothing in us that resists or refuses the Holy Spirit, but
where we are perfectly open and ready for the biggest consequence of the
Holy Spirit putting His finger upon anything in our lives needing to be
dealt with and adjusted. He is here for that.
The alternative to such a work of the Holy Spirit
being allowed to be done in us is that we shall find ourselves in a
false position, and it is far, far too costly to find ourselves in a
false position, even though it only be on certain points.
This is a
false world we are living in, a world that is carried on upon lies.
The
whole constitution of this world is a lie, and it is in the very nature
of man, though multitudes do not know it, but think they are true.
They
are trying to build the world on a false foundation.
The Kingdom of God
is altogether other. It is built upon Jesus Christ, the Truth.
~T. Austin Sparks~