My Utmost for His Highest

December 21st.
	EXPERIENCE OR REVELATION
"We have received . . . the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God." 1 Corinthians 2:12 Reality is Redemption, not my experience of Redemption; but Redemption has no meaning for me until it speaks the language of my conscious life. (the evidence of transformation is inward , because the language of transformation is in relationship to our hearts ) When I am born again, the Spirit of God takes me right out of myself and my experiences, and identifies me with Jesus Christ.(the product of a supernatural encounter with Christ is that our lives are swallowed up and we identify with Him in all that we say, all that we do, our life become His, His expression ) If I am left with my experiences, my experiences have not been produced by Redemption. The proof that they are produced by Redemption is that I am led out of myself all the time, (yesss , what we behold is Him and we are being changed more and more into His likeness) I no longer pay any attention to my experiences as the ground of Reality, but only to the Reality which produced the experiences. (we become deeply conscious that we are not producing anything in terms of spiritual life in us, the Son in us is the river of life that is flowing taking us whereever it would) My experiences are not worth anything unless they keep me at the Source, Jesus Christ. (aware that it is Him in us) If you try to dam up the Holy Spirit in you to produce subjective experiences, you will find that He will burst all bounds and take you back again to the historic Christ. Never nourish an experience which has not God as its Source and faith in God as its result. If you do, your experience is anti-Christian, no matter what visions you may have had. Is Jesus Christ Lord of your experiences, or do you try to lord it over Him? (is it Him we glorify in all things or is it self, or another) Is any experience dearer to you than your Lord? He must be Lord over you, and you must not pay attention to any experience over which He is not Lord. There comes a time when God will make you impatient with your own experience - I do not care what I experience; I am sure of Him. (we see Him in the center of our circumstances, whatever they may be .. and from Him comes the peace and faith to stand, to believe, to hope, to endure) our faith should not be dependant on what is or isn't happening all around us) Be ruthless with yourself if you are given to talking about the experiences you have had. Faith that is sure of itself is not faith; faith that is sure of God is the only faith there is.