The Spiritual Resolution Plr Ebook

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Table of Contents

Intro
Chapter 1:
Seeking Him
Chapter 2:
Possess The Kingdom First And Things Later
Chapter 3:
Faith
Chapter 4:
Relationship With God
Chapter 5:
Basic Steps

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Synopsis

The urge to quest after God initiates with God, but the outworking of that urge is our pursuing hard after Him; and the whole time we’re questing after Him we’re already in His hand: “Thy right hand upholdeth me.”

When We Look

The modern man of science has lost God among the wonders of His world; we’re in real danger of misplacing God among the wonders of His Word. We have nearly blanked out that God is a Person and, intrinsically, may be cultivated as any individual may. It’s innate in personality to be able to understand other personalities, but total knowledge of one personality by another can’t be accomplished in one meeting. It’s only after long and loving mental encounters that the full possibilities of both may be explored.

All social encounters between humans is a response of personality to personality, scaling upward from the most common brush between man and man to the fullest, most familiar communion of which the human soul is able. God is a Person, and in the depth of His powerful nature He thinks, wills, delights, feels, loves, wants and suffers as any other individual might. In making Himself known to us He communicates with us by the avenues of our brains, our wills and our emotions.

This encounters between God and the soul is experienced by us in conscious personal awareness. Being created in His image we have inside us the mental ability to know Him. I wish deliberately to promote this powerful longing after God. The lack of it has brought us to our current depressed state. The stiff character about our spiritual lives is a result of our deficiency of holy desire. Complacency is a lethal foe of all spiritual maturation. Intense desire has to be present or there will be no manifestation of Christ to His masses. He waits to be needed. Regrettable that with a lot of us He waits in vain.

Each age has its own features. Right now we’re in an age of spiritual complexness. The simplicity which is in Christ is seldom discovered among us. In its place are programs, techniques, organizations and a world of nervous actions which absorb time and attention but may never fulfill the longing of the heart.

The superficiality of our inner experience, the hollowness of our worship, and that fakeness of the world which marks our promotional techniques all testify that we, today, know God merely imperfectly, and the serenity of God scarcely at all. If we’d discover God among all the religious externals we must first decide to find Him, and then go forward in the way of simplicity. We have to simplify our approach to Him. We have to peel down to essentials. We have to put away all effort to impress, and attach to the honest frankness of childhood. If we accomplish this, beyond any doubt God will quickly respond.

In prayer we exercise a further peeling down of everything, even of our theological system. When the Lord separated Canaan among the tribes of Israel Levi got no share of the land. God stated to him simply, “I am thy part and thine inheritance,” and by those words made him richer than all his brethren, more plentiful than all the kings and rajas that have ever lived in the world. And there’s a spiritual principle here, a precept still valid for every one.

The man who has God for his treasure bears all things in One. A lot of average treasures might be denied him, or if he’s allowed to get them, the enjoyment of them will be so normalized that they’ll never be essential to his happiness. Or if he has to see them go, one after one, he will barely feel a sense of loss, for owning the Source of all things he has in One all gratification, all pleasure, and all joy. Whatever he might lose he’s really lost nothing, for he now owns it all in One, and he has it purely, licitly and forever.

A Prayer to be closer.

O God, I’ve sampled Thy goodness, and it’s both gratified me and made me hungry for more. I’m painfully witting of my need of additional grace. I’m ashamed of my deficiency of desire. O God, I wish to want Thee; I yearn to be filled with longing; I crave to be made thirstier still. Show me Thy glory; I pray Thee, that so I might know Thee indeed. Start in mercy a fresh work of love inside me. State to my soul, “rise, my love, my fair one, and come away.” Then provide me grace to rise and follow Thee up from this foggy lowland where I’ve wandered so long. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

Synopsis

Before the Lord God made man on the earth He first of all prepared for him by making an existence of valuable and pleasant things for his sustenance and joy. In the Book of Genesis account of the creation these are named plainly “things.” They were created for man’s uses, however they were meant always to be extraneous to the man and subservient to him.

However sin has introduced ramifications and has made those very gifts from God a possible source of downfall to the soul.

1st Things 1st

Our sufferings started when God was routed out of His central shrine and “things” were allowed to come in. Inside the human heart “things” have claimed a place. Men have now naturally no peace inside their hearts, for God is king there no more.

This isn’t a mere metaphor, but a precise analysis of our true spiritual trouble. There’s inside the human heart a hard fibrous root of diminished life whose nature is to own, always to possess. It covets “things” with a rich and fierce passion. The pronouns “my” and “mine” look guiltless enough in print, but their ceaseless and universal utilization is significant.

They convey the true nature of man better than 1000 volumes of theology could do. They’re verbal symptoms of our mysterious disease. The roots of our hearts have gone to things, and we dare not lose one root or we will die. Things have become essential to us, a matter never originally intended. God’s gifts today take the place of God, and the entire course of nature is disquieted by the heinous substitution.

It would appear that there’s inside each of us a foe which we tolerate at our risk. Its main feature is its possessiveness: the words “acquire” and “profit” indicates this. To let this enemy live is ultimately to lose everything. To renounce it and relinquish all for Christ’s sake is to lose nothing in the end, but to save everything unto eternal life. And potentially also a hint is given here as to the sole effective way to destroy this enemy: it’s by the Cross. “Let him take up his cross and follow me.”

The way to richer knowledge of God is by soul poverty and denial of all things. The blessed ones who possess the Kingdom are they who have renounced every external thing and have rooted from their hearts all sensation of possessing. These are the “poor in spirit.”

Let me urge you to take this seriously. It isn’t to be translated as mere Bible teaching to be hived away in the brain along with a heap of additional doctrines. It’s a marker on the route to greener pastures. We dare not try to go around it. We have to rise a step at a time. If we pass up one step we bring our advancement to an end.

Abraham possessed nothing. Yet wasn’t this poor man rich? Everything he had owned was his still to love: sheep, camels, herds, and goods of every type. He had likewise his wife and his acquaintances, and best of all he had his son Isaac by his side. He had everything, but he possessed nothing. There’s the spiritual secret. There’s the fresh theology of the heart which may be learned only by renunciation. There’s no doubt that this possessive clinging to things is among the most injurious habits in the life. Because it’s so natural it’s seldom recognized for the evil that it is; but it’s tragic.

Our gifts and talents ought to be turned over to Him. They ought to be recognized for what they are, God’s loan to us, and ought to never be thought about in any sense our own. We have no more right to take credit for particular abilities than for blue eyes or solid muscles. If we’d indeed know God in growing familiarity we have to go this way of renouncement. And if we’re set upon the quest of God He will sooner or later bring us to this test.

There are times when we get discouraged and depleted of strength and don’t think that we can go on. There are times when our nerves are damaged and we’re ready to quit. But God can take the little we have, and once we give it to Him, we’ll be astonished to see what God will do and can do in our lives. We have to take what we have no matter how small or large it is, and give it to Him.

We have to give Him our talents, our gifts, our finances, and our physical assets. Obedience leads to blessings. God’s power to provide will forever exceed our capability of receiving. God spills out His blessings when we’re willing to spill out what we have. God can fill each need, and move each mountain, and solve each issue. His supply is fixed only by our faith. God is ready to take your little bit and make it more than you may ever envisage.

Prayer to renounce:

Father-God, I wish to know Thee, but my coward heart fears to abandon its toys. I can’t part with them without inward pain, and I don’t try to hide from Thee the panic of the parting. I come shaking, but I do come. Please take from my heart all those things which I’ve treasured so long and which have become a real part of my living self, so that Thou may come in and dwell there without competition. Then shall Thou make this place glorious. Then shall my heart have no demand of the sun to shine in it, for you will be the light of it, and there shall be no dark there. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.