Something More About His Ways
When Jesus had made an end of commanding his disciples, he departed thence
to teach and to preach in their cities. -
Matthew 11:1
He comes where He commands us to leave. If when God said "Go," you stayed
because you were so concerned about your people at home, you robbed them of
the
teaching and preaching of Jesus Christ Himself. When you obeyed and left all
consequences to God, the Lord went into your city to teach; as long as you
would not obey, you were in the way. Watch where you begin to debate and to
put what you call duty in competition with your Lord's commands. "I know He
told me to go, but then my duty was here;" that means you do not believe
that Jesus means what He says.
He teaches where He instructs us not to. "Master, . . . let us make three
tabernacles." Are we playing the spiritual amateur providence in other
lives?
Are we so noisy in our instruction of others that God cannot get anywhere
near them? We have to keep our mouths shut and our spirits alert. God wants
to
instruct us in regard to His Son, He wants to turn our times of prayer into
mounts of transfiguration, and we will not let Him. When we are certain of
the way God is going to work, He will never work in that way any more.
He works where He sends us to wait. "Tarry ye . . . until . . ." Wait on God
and He will work, but don't wait in spiritual sulks because you cannot see
an inch in front of you! Are we detached enough from our own spiritual
hysterics to wait on God? To wait is not to sit with folded hands, but to
learn
to do what we are told.
These are phases of His ways we rarely recognize.
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Victoria E Gilkerson
