Sometimes we try too hard to attain a deep understanding of truth. We feel that we need to have much knowledge, but this is not the truth, because God does not need your knowledge or your understanding in order to function. God functions “in a moment ye think not.” God functions clearly through something that passes understanding. God functions through you when you are unknowing. The Spirit of God flows through all those who are willing to remain an open channel as a beholder or a witness. The Spirit of God works through you, in you and as you when you rest back in a cloud of unknowing; when you have the attitude of a trusting child, then the Father can work It’s wonders.
We have read that “Where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty.” And it is the truth. But to demonstrate this truth it becomes necessary to have the simple awareness of a beholder. We do not need a deep understanding. We do not need a tremendous amount of knowledge. We only need the simple attitude of being still and beholding that Spirit of the Lord. And in this stillness, that Spirit flows through and does Its work in a way we know not of.
We learn to be receptive. We learn to stand a little to the side. Sometimes it is necessary to stop our studies, that is, stop trying to gain more knowledge. If we are to gain something, let us acquire this ability to trust; to step aside and be a beholder; to witness the Spirit working It’s works; to not have to know anything, not to have to understand anything, not have to be anything -- this is the way, the spiritual way of living and resting back in that cloud of unknowing. Here we have the firsthand experience of an inner "I" going before us to prepare a place for us, an Invisible Spirit which has come to give us Life and Life more abundantly. The greater works are always done through this inner state of unknowing.
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Bill skiles www.mysticalprinciples.com
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