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Christian Truth: Volume 2
By:
John Nelson Darby
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Knowing God's Will
From:
Christian Truth: Volume 26
• 1 min. read • grade level: 7
The knowledge of God's will is based on the spiritual state of the soul—wisdom and spiritual understanding. "For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding."
Col. 1:9
9
For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; (Colossians 1:9)
. And this is of all practical importance. No particular direction by man as to conduct meets this at all—rather saves us from the need of spiritual understanding. No doubt a more spiritual mind may help me in the discernment of God's will; but God has connected the discovery of the path of His will, His way, with the inward state of the soul, and causes us to pass
through circumstances—human life here below—to test and to discover to ourselves what that state is, and to exercise us therein. The Christian has by his spiritual state to know God's ways. The Word is the means. (Compare
John 17:17, 19
17
Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. (John 17:17)
19
And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth. (John 17:19)
.) God has a way of His own which the vulture's eye bath not seen, known only to the spiritual man, connected with, flowing from, and to, the knowledge of God. (Compare
Exodus 33:13
13
Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, show me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight: and consider that this nation is thy people. (Exodus 33:13)
.) Thus the Christian walks worthy of the Lord; he knows what
becomes
Him, and walks accordingly, that he may please Him in all things, bearing fruit in every good work, and growing
by
the knowledge of God.
J. N. D.
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