You see that God never takes our will away, nor our mind, nor our heart.
Some people expect God to come and do all their
choosing for them, and all their desiring for them, and all their
deciding for them, while they are simply to be poor things picked up by
God and put into things which He desires and wills. God never does that.
He is developing a humanity. Were we spirits I do not know how we might
act; we might act spontaneously. But we are not.
God has created a kind
of being with a rational mind. The three-fold element of spirit, soul
and body is still to be found, yet not now in Adam, but in Christ.
God
is developing the Christ mind; how He thinks, judges, understands, and
when we see the Lord's mind we see how very different it is from our own
natural mind; and our own natural mind is beside the mark altogether,
and we must repudiate it.
This is spiritual understanding, the mind of
the Spirit.
The same thing applies to our feelings and our
desires. They may lead us all astray.
There is a new outfit in Christ
for our hearts, but there is always the necessity for our standing with
the Lord in what is of Himself.
Passivity may be a most ruinous thing.
In all the values of Christ risen there has to be a taking of that risen
Life for the equivalent need of mind, heart, will; of spirit, soul, and
body.
~T. Austin Sparks~
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