Reality is redemption, not my personal experience of redemption. But redemption has no meaning for me personally until it begins to speak the language of my conscious life.<\/p>\n
When I am born again and \u201chave received . . . the Spirit who is from God,\u201d the Spirit takes me right out of myself and identifies me with Jesus Christ so fully that I forget all about my personal spiritual experiences. If I\u2019m still clinging to my experiences, it\u2019s proof that they weren\u2019t produced by his redemption. Redemption leads me out of my own experiences, my own self, all the time. It shows me that my experiences didn\u2019t give rise to reality but rather that reality gave rise to my experiences. My experiences aren\u2019t worth anything unless they keep me at the source, Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n
If you hunger for personal spiritual experiences and try to dam up the Holy Spirit in yourself in order to produce them, you\u2019ll find that the Spirit will always burst through and take you back again to Jesus Christ. Never nourish an experience that doesn\u2019t have God as its source and faith in God as its result. Any such experience is anti\u2013Christian, no matter what visions you may have had. Is Jesus Christ Lord of your experiences? Or do you try to lord it over him? Is any experience dearer to you than your Lord? He must be Lord over you, and you must not pay attention to any experience over which he isn\u2019t Lord. There comes a time when God will make you impatient with your own experience, when you\u2019ll say, \u201cI don\u2019t care what I experience; I\u2019m sure of him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Be ruthless with yourself if you have a tendency to talk about your experiences. Faith that is sure of itself isn\u2019t faith. Faith that is sure of God is the only faith there is.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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