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"From that time many of His disciples went back
and walked with Him no more." John 6:66
When God, by His Spirit through His Word, gives you a clear vision of His will,
you must “walk in the light” of that vision (1 John 1:7). Even though your mind
and soul may be thrilled by it, if you don’t “walk in the light” of it you will
sink to a level of bondage never envisioned by our Lord. Mentally disobeying the
“heavenly vision” (Acts 26:19) will make you a slave to ideas and views that are
completely foreign to Jesus Christ. Don’t look at someone else and say, “Well,
if he can have those views and prosper, why can’t I?” You have to “walk in the
light” of the vision that has been given to you.
Don’t compare yourself with
others or judge them— that is between God and them. When you find that one of
your favorite and strongly held views clashes with the “heavenly vision,” do not
begin to debate it. If you do, a sense of property and personal right will
emerge in you— things on which Jesus placed no value. He was against these
things as being the root of everything foreign to Himself— “. . . for one’s life
does not consist in the abundance of the things he possesses” (Luke 12:15). If
we don’t see and understand this, it is because we are ignoring the underlying
principles of our Lord’s teaching.
Our tendency is to lie back and bask in the memory of the wonderful experience
we had when God revealed His will to us. But if a New Testament standard is
revealed to us by the light of God, and we don’t try to measure up, or even feel
inclined to do so, then we begin to backslide. It means your conscience does not
respond to the truth. You can never be the same after the unveiling of a truth.
That moment marks you as one who either continues on with even more devotion as
a disciple of Jesus Christ, or as one who turns to go back as a deserter.
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