THE VISION AND THE VERITY

     Called to be saints.

     — 1 Corinthians 1:2

Thank God for the sight of all you have never yet been. You have had
the vision, but you are not there yet by any means. It is when we are
in the valley, where we prove whether we will be the choice ones,
that most of us turn back. We are not quite prepared for the blows
which must come if we are going to be turned into the shape of the
vision. We have seen what we are not, and what God wants us to be,
but are we willing to have the vision “batter’d to shape and use” by
God? The batterings always come in commonplace ways and through
commonplace people.

There are times when we do know what God’s purpose is; whether we
will let the vision be turned into actual character depends upon us,
not upon God. If we prefer to loll on the mount and live in the
memory of the vision, we will be of no use actually in the ordinary
stuff of which human life is made up. We have to learn to live in
reliance on what we saw in the vision, not in ecstasies and conscious
contemplation of God, but to live in actualities in the light of the
vision until we get to the veritable reality. Every bit of our
training is in that direction. Learn to thank God for making known
His demands.

The little “I am” always sulks when God says do. Let the little “I
am” be shrivelled up in God’s indignation – “I AM THAT I AM hath sent
thee.” He must dominate. Is it not penetrating to realize that God
knows where we live, and the kennels we crawl into! He will hunt us
up like a lightning flash. No human being knows human beings as God
does.

On this day…

• Mathew 28 – 2024
• Mathew 27 – 2024
• The Solid Foundation of Trusting Christ – 2011
• Trick or Treat? It’s Martin Luther – 2011
• How to Serve “The Singles” ? Ministry to Unmarried Adults in Your Local Church – 2011
• Yahweh is unequalled – 2010
• Putting away false worship – 2010
• Identification with Jesus Christ’s sacrificial death – 2010
• Acceptable to God because of His Son – 2010
• Archangel – 2009