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"Come up here, and I will show you things which
must take place . . ." - Revelation 4:1
A higher state of mind and spiritual vision can only be achieved through the
higher practice of personal character. If you live up to the highest and best
that you know in the outer level of your life, God will continually say to you,
"Friend, come up even higher." There is also a continuing rule in temptation
which calls you to go higher; but when you do, you only encounter other
temptations and character traits. Both God and Satan use the strategy of
elevation, but Satan uses it in temptation, and the effect is quite different.
When the devil elevates you to a certain place, he causes you to fasten your
idea of what holiness is far beyond what flesh and blood could ever bear or
achieve. Your life becomes a spiritual acrobatic performance high atop a
steeple. You cling to it, trying to maintain your balance and daring not to
move. But when God elevates you by His grace into heavenly places, you find a
vast plateau where you can move about with ease.
Compare this week in your spiritual life with the same week last year to see how
God has called you to a higher level. We have all been brought to see from a
higher viewpoint. Never allow God to show you a truth which you do not instantly
begin to live up to, applying it to your life. Always work through it, staying
in its light.
Your growth in grace is not measured by the fact that you haven’t turned back,
but that you have an insight and understanding into where you are spiritually.
Have you heard God say, "Come up higher," not audibly on the outer level, but to
the innermost part of your character?
"Shall I hide from Abraham what I am doing . . . ?" (Genesis 18:17 ). God has to
hide from us what He does, until, due to the growth of our personal character,
we get to the level where He is then able to reveal it.
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