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GETTING INTO GOD’S STRIDE

     Enoch walked with God.

     — Genesis 5:24

The test of a man’s religious life and character is not what he does
in the exceptional moments of life, but what he does in the ordinary
times, when there is nothing tremendous or exciting on. The worth of
a man is revealed in his attitude to ordinary things when he is not
before the footlights (cf. John 1:36). It is a painful business to
get through into the stride of God, it means getting your second wind
spiritually. In learning to walk with God there is always the
difficulty of getting into His stride; but when we have got into it,
the only characteristic that manifests itself is the life of God. The
individual man is lost sight of in his personal union with God, and
the stride and the power of God alone are manifested.

It is difficult to get into stride with God, because when we start
walking with Him we find He has outstripped us before we have taken
three steps. He has different ways of doing things, and we have to be
trained and disciplined into His ways. It was said of Jesus – “”He
shall not fail nor be discouraged,”" because He never worked from His
own individual standpoint but always from the standpoint of His
Father, and we have to learn to do the same. Spiritual truth is
learned by atmosphere, not by intellectual reasoning. God’s Spirit
alters the atmosphere of our way of looking at things, and things
begin to be possible which never were possible before. Getting into
the stride of God means nothing less than union with Himself. It
takes a long time to get there, but keep at it. Don’t give in because
the pain is bad just now, get on with it, and before long you will
find you have a new vision and a new purpose.

On this day

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