"ARGUMENTS OR OBEDIENCE"-- OSWALD CHAMBERS

                       ARGUMENTS OR OBEDIENCE

       Simplicity is the secret of seeing things clearly.

           A saint does not think clearly until  a

      long time passes, but a saint ought to see clearly

           without difficulty. You cannot think through

      spiritual confusion to make things clear; to make

           things clear, you must obey. In intellectual

      matters you can think things out,  but in

           spiritual matters you only think yourself into

      further wandering thoughts and more confusion.

           If there is something in your life upon which

      God has put His pressure, then obey Him in that

           matter. Bring all your "arguments... every

      thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ"

           regarding the matter, and everything will

      become as clear as daylight to you. (2 Corinthians

          10;5). Your reasoning capacity will come later,

      but reasoning is not how we see. We see like

           children, and when we try to be wise we see

     nothing (see Matthew 11:25.).

•      -Even the smallest thing that we allow in our
• lives that is not under the control of the Holy
•       Spirit is completely sufficient to account
• for spiritual confusion, and spending  all of our
•       time thinking about it will still never make
• it clear. Spiritual confusion can only be conquered
•       through obedience. As soon as we obey, we 
• have discernment. This is humilating, because 
•      when are confused we know that the reason
• lies in the state of our mind. But when our natural
•      power of sight is devoted and submitted in
• obedience to the Holy Spirit, it becomes the very
•      power by which we perceive God's will, and
• our entire life is kept in simplicity."
• "It was never meant by God for Christianity to be complex."
•                                 (Byrl B. Brockman)

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