“The
secret of the Lord is with those who fear Him…” (Psalm 25:14)
What is the sign of a
friend? It is that he tells you his secret sorrows? No, it is that he tells you
his secret joys. Many people will confide their secret sorrows to you, but the
final mark of intimacy is when they share their secret joys with you. Have we
ever let God tell us any of His joys? Or are we continually telling God our
secrets, leaving Him no time to talk to us? At the beginning of our Christian
life we are full of requests to God. But then we find that God wants to get us
into an intimate relationship with Himself – to get us in touch with His
purposes. Are we so intimately united to Jesus Christ’s idea of prayer – “Your
will be done” (Matthew 6:10) – that we catch the secrets of God? What makes God
so dear to us is not so much His big blessings to us, but the tiny things,
because they show His amazing intimacy with us – He knows every detail of each
of our individual lives.
“Him shall He teach in
the way He chooses” (Psalm 25:12). At first, we want the awareness of being
guided by God. But then as we grow spiritually, we live so fully aware of God
that we do not even need to ask what His will is, because the thought of
choosing another way will never occur to us. If we are saved and sanctified,
God guides us by our everyday choices. And if we are about to choose what He
does not want, He will give us a sense of doubt or restraint, which we must
heed. Whenever there is doubt, stop at once. Never try to reason it out,
saying, “I wonder why I shouldn’t do this?” God instructs us in what we choose;
that is, He actually guides our common sense. And when we yield to His
teachings and guidance, we no longer hinder His Spirit by continually asking, “Now,
Lord, what is Your will?”
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