Gods Trust in Us
The speed of our progress in being led of the Spirit is dependant upon our submission to His will. God moves us ahead as swiftly as He can in the proportion that he can trust us. The walk with God, therefore, is not so much our learning techniques of how to be led of God. the primary concentration is pressing in the interior life to submit to God’s will so perfectly that He might be able to trust us with a greater measure of His Spirit.
- A Voice In the Wilderness, Loran W. Helm
What does this mean? if God only moves as sqiftly as He can trust us… what does that tell us about out own walk with God.? Nobody else can measure how fast or slow we are moving, noone else can see what God is trying to do in the interior of our lives. We may seem to be moving very slowly, on the outside, and God is doing huge works in the interior. Or we may seem to be moving liek the wind on the outside, and yet God is doing very little.
Don’t judge others based on what they are doing or not doing. We only see from the outside, not the inside. We can not judge others based on what God is doing in our interior life. We can only look at ourself, and knowing that we woudl fail without His aid, throw ourselves on the mercy of the Lord. Please His blood, and ask Him to help us get where we are supposed to go. AS we cast all our cares on Him, then he can better trust us to respond to His leadings and guidances and thus can move us ahead much more quickly than we can even imagine.
However, if we try to manage and manipulate. Or if we try to take shortcuts to get where He is leading God will not be able to trust us and our forward movememnt will slow or stop completly while we are refined further inthe fires and trials of the wilderness.
Even if we are moving in complete obediance to Him:
My Friend, are you really determined to wait on God until He finishes the work He has begun at conversion? Will you let Him slay out of you that selfish, prideful, jealous, murmuring, fault-finding, analytical, self-sufficient spirit? He wants to uproot these poisonous weeds so that He might sow in us the seeds of His divine nature. But most people are unwilling to wait for God to produce His precious fruit. they want all that God has for them immediately. Most everybody wants a victoriou, overcoming life in Christ; but often they want the prize without the race. They desire the ends without the means. they wish to read a book and find out in a few hours how to walk with God.
We want to have the benefits of walking with God without the actual walking. We want to talk to our pastor and have him pray over everything we do, whether it is right or wrong, and then we don’t have to feel responsible for the decision ourselves. It’s like asking someone to go run 5 miles everyday, and expecting our bodies to get the benefit of that exercise. That simply is not going to happen. If we want the benefits of running 5 miles every day, then we are going to have to run 5 miles every day.
If we want the fruit of the Spirit in our lives then we have to be willing to let Him plant that seed in our hearts and in order for Him to plant, the weeds of sin and self, resentment, lies, anger and lust have to be pulled from our heart. It is not easy nor is it clean work, but once it’s done then the fruit can be planted, and not until then.
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understandings in all your ways acknowledge him and He shall direct your paths. Prov 3:5-6
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