Many of our ills today stem from the fact that we are content with a merely objective acceptance of doctrine. We seek an outward, mental light on the Scriptures, but stop short of their inward applications to experience. We encounter many intellectual difficulties in the Bible; and light, to us, is the solving of these. For many of us it is the case of feeling all is well if we are conservative or orthodox in our doctrine, and give mental assent to this and mental dissent from that. It is by this reasoning that fundamentalists consider themselves on a so much higher plane than modernists. Yet surely it must be obvious to us that we all measure up spiritually in Gods eyes only in so far as we possess a true inward knowledge of His Son, and no further. We may be perfectly right, but unless we possess His life and live by that, we lack the supreme essential. (Watchman Nee)
Posted on: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 12:31:01 +0000
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