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"We walk by faith, not by sight" - 2 Corinthians
5:7
For a while, we are fully aware of God’s concern for us. But then, when God
begins to use us in His work, we begin to take on a pitiful look and talk only
of our trials and difficulties. And all the while God is trying to make us do
our work as hidden people who are not in the spotlight. None of us would be
hidden spiritually if we could help it. Can we do our work when it seems that
God has sealed up heaven? Some of us always want to be brightly illuminated
saints with golden halos and with the continual glow of inspiration, and to have
other saints of God dealing with us all the time. A self-assured saint is of no
value to God. He is abnormal, unfit for daily life, and completely unlike God.
We are here, not as immature angels, but as men and women, to do the work of
this world. And we are to do it with an infinitely greater power to withstand
the struggle because we have been born from above.
If we continually try to bring back those exceptional moments of inspiration, it
is a sign that it is not God we want. We are becoming obsessed with the moments
when God did come and speak with us, and we are insisting that He do it again.
But what God wants us to do is to “walk by faith.” How many of us have set
ourselves aside as if to say, “I cannot do anything else until God appears to
me”? He will never do it. We will have to get up on our own, without any
inspiration and without any sudden touch from God. Then comes our surprise and
we find ourselves exclaiming, “Why, He was there all the time, and I never knew
it!” Never live for those exceptional moments— they are surprises. God will give
us His touches of inspiration only when He sees that we are not in danger of
being led away by them. We must never consider our moments of inspiration as the
standard way of life— our work is our standard.
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