We have to be so one with God that we do not need to continually ask for his guidance. Sanctification means that we have been made God\u2019s children, and the natural life of a child is obedience\u2014until the child wishes to be disobedient. The instant we are disobedient, we get a warning; a kind of intuitive jolt alerts us. In the spiritual domain, this jolt comes from the Spirit of God. When he checks us, we have to stop at once and be renewed in the spirit of our mind so that we may discern God\u2019s will.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If we have been born again of the Spirit, we do not dictate to God where he should guide us. We simply know that \u201cthe Lord has led\u201d us on our journey. When we look back, we see the presence of an amazing design, a design which, because we\u2019ve been born of God, we credit entirely to him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anyone can see God in exceptional things, but it requires spiritual discipline to see him in every detail. If we have this discipline, we\u2019re ready to discover divine designs everywhere. What appears random and haphazard to most people is to us nothing less than God\u2019s appointed order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Beware of making a fetish of consistency to your own convictions instead of being devoted to God. If you are following Jesus Christ, you\u2019ll probably find yourself doing things you swore you\u2019d never do, because there was never a more inconsistent being on this earth than our Lord. But he was never inconsistent to his Father. The one consistency of the disciple is loyalty not to a conviction or a principle but to the divine life. It is the divine life which continually makes more and more discoveries about the divine mind. It\u2019s easier to be a fanatic than a faithful soul, because there is something amazingly humbling\u2014particularly to our religious conceit\u2014about being loyal to God.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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