Knowing God’s Ways (8)

Why is it so important to wash oneself with God’s Word?  Because only then can we learn and know God’s ways.  This explains the fundamental reason why God gave us a written Bible.  The Bible witnesses his truth, his ways.  Has the Word of the LORD been revealed to you?  Do you know beyond all doubt that Jesus is God’s Word become flesh?  Make no mistake, you cannot come to know God until the Word of the LORD is revealed to you.  You may know a few maxims of truth, but not the reality of Christ in you….

Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says,
    “Today, if you hear his voice,
    [8] do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
        on the day of testing in the wilderness,
    [9] where your fathers put me to the test
        and saw my works
    [10] for forty years.
    Therefore I was provoked with that generation,
    and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart;
        they have not known my ways.’
    [11] As I swore in my wrath,
        ‘They shall not enter my rest.’ ”
    [12] Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.  [13] But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.  [14] For we share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end. 
  Hebrews 3:7-14 (ESV) 

Notice the warning again, “if indeed we hold….”  This earth is our testing place, our wilderness.   Will we bend our necks, yoking them with Jesus’, and learn his ways, or not?  Will we choose to wash ourselves with his water (learn and obey the truth found in his Word), eat his bread (learn to hear and obey his truth), and drink his blood (see with Spiritual eyes)?  Or will we go astray into unbelief and sin?

Those who know God’s ways enter into his rest.  These learn to cease from their own agendas.  They drop out of the programmed church life with its myriad of  planned “services” and “good works.”  They have learned to be led of the Holy Spirit.  They quit going from town to town to the next “big event” where God will “certainly do something miraculous.”  No longer do they act as vultures visiting the corpse of the dead body of Christ in their quest for spiritual food.  They’re not looking for the next great prophet because they have become the prophet.  They themselves speak forth the word of God.  They can because they know God’s ways.  And, like lightning, from the east to the west, these proclaim God’s truth to all who will hear.

I do not counsel you with this teaching to leave your present church or fellowship (unless the leaders there follow Satan instead of Christ).  I counsel you to take God’s Word, his rest, and his ways there with you when you go.  By doing this you will become a prophet of God’s truth in the midst of his people.

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