My Utmost for His Highest!

This might be one of the BEST devotionals I have ever read....a real admonishment for Christian's today...especially me! I love the refining fire of the Lord...as painful as it can be, I know it leads to a more mature Christian walk, life and testimony!
We all know people who do not accept God's Word as Truth period.
We also know of Truth that we KNOW to be true yet is still refused by a friend or loved one. There is also Truth that WE know to be Truth that our Christian friends yet still do not accept and yet still there is some Truth that we ourselves have not yet accepted but are still learning of and is being revealed to us...but how many of us can admit that even WE do not have understanding enough to even SPEAK yet!!! OWWWWWCH!
We should be very careful as Christians when we speak to be sure that the Word is developed in us fully or at least fully enough that we do not malign the Word of God...What we THINK to be True or what we FEEL to be True is not what is necessarily TRUE. May God watch the Words spoken from my lips today and tonight especially....as we begin our women's fellowship group...

April 7, 2008

Why We Lack Understanding

He commanded them that they should tell no one the things they had seen, till the Son of Man had risen from the dead —Mark 9:9

As the disciples were commanded, you should also say nothing until the Son of Man has risen in you— until the life of the risen Christ so dominates you that you truly understand what He taught while here on earth. When you grow and develop the right condition inwardly, the words Jesus spoke become so clear that you are amazed you did not grasp them before. In fact, you were not able to understand them before because you had not yet developed the proper spiritual condition to deal with them.
Our Lord doesn’t hide these things from us, but we are not prepared to receive them until we are in the right condition in our spiritual life. Jesus said, "I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now" ( John 16:12 ). We must have a oneness with His risen life before we are prepared to bear any particular truth from Him. Do we really know anything about the indwelling of the risen life of Jesus? The evidence that we do is that His Word is becoming understandable to us. God cannot reveal anything to us if we don’t have His Spirit. And our own unyielding and headstrong opinions will effectively prevent God from revealing anything to us. But our insensible thinking will end immediately once His resurrection life has its way with us.
". . . tell no one . . . ." But so many people do tell what they saw on the Mount of Transfiguration— their mountaintop experience. They have seen a vision and they testify to it, but there is no connection between what they say and how they live. Their lives don’t add up because the Son of Man has not yet risen in them. How long will it be before His resurrection life is formed and evident in you and in me?