Ephesians 1:18 the eyes of your understanding being enlightened so that you may know what is the hope which His call to you inspires, what the wealth of the glory of His inheritance in God's people,
The eyes of your heart enlightened...discerning
love.
Love is as far removed from blindness as heaven from earth. Love
is blind? No – not true love.
The fact is that true love sees
everything, but transcends everything.
The love of Christ for His
disciples was not blind love that did not know His men, love that was
duped, deceived, misled, but eventually found out that they were not the
men He thought they were. No,"He... knew what was in man"
John 2:24.
His love saw everything and could tell them beforehand exactly what
they would do; but love persisted in face of it all.
Love is a great
seeing thing.
If you are consumed with a burning love for the Lord,
you will be very quick of scent as to what is doubtful and
questionable.
You will not need to be frequently and continuously told
when a thing is not right. No, love for the Lord will bring you quickly
to see and to sense there is something that needs to be adjusted. You
may not know what it is at the time, but you have a sense that all is
not well. Love will do it.
All the instruction in the world will not
bring you to it. You may have the Word of God brought to you on all such
points, and you might even say, "All right, because you say so, because
it is in the Bible, I will do it, I will be obedient." Do you think
that is good enough?
Such a thing has never come to you through the eyes
of your heart. But, mark you, if this love, this discerning love, has
really filled your heart by all the intelligence of the Holy Spirit
indwelling you, you will sense it without being told;
Or if it should be
brought
to you from the Word, that within you will say, "Yes, I know that is
right, the Lord tells me that is right." Do you not think that is the
kind of Christian that is needed, and what the Lord needs at the end?
That is what He has had in mind from the beginning and He calls that
first love that is quick of scent to see what needs to be cut off or
added, what adjustments are necessary, and does accordingly.
You do not
have to follow round and say, Please do this; have you never taken note
that you might be helpful in this way?
You do not have to do that
where there is devotion, love watchful all the time, aliveness,
alertness, perception, readiness to do without being all the time told
to do it.
Real devotion to the Lord is something that far outreaches
legality.
First love is discerning love.
~T. Austin Sparks~
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