Led by the Spirit

Here's a little meditation for you based on a short passage from T. Austin-Sparks. Sparks says:

"No one can understand the Gospels truly until they have received the Holy Spirit, and have come into a true deep experience of death with Christ, burial with Christ, and resurrection with Christ. Because that experience, not that doctrine, that experience brings an open heaven."

Ah yes! Sparks hits on one of the great eternal truths. The Scripture is powerful Light in the presence of the Holy Spirit. Without the Spirit, it is impossible to understand it. You can have all the doctrine and correct teaching from the finest seminaries in the world, but without the Holy Spirit, you can see nothing and understand nothing of the Spiritual realm. It's impossible for the natural man to know God and the things of God. The Holy Spirit is our only guide to the Scripture. There is no other guide.

The Spirit only comes on the ground of death, burial and resurrection via the Cross. That experience with the Cross brings us into an open heaven - a place where there is nothing - ABSOLUTELY NOTHING - blocking the Spirit's connection to our heart. No man, no religious traditions, job, money, science, politics, or any other things. Nothing!

In an open heaven, Christ is all. There is nothing greater than to see and live in an open heaven. It is what the Cross is all about, beloved.

May you see an open heaven.

Agape,
Steve