Coming of Age
As you grow in spiritual power and understanding you will find that many outer regulations will become unnecessary; but this will be because you have really risen above them. This point in your development, where your understanding of Truth enables you to dispense with certain outer props and regulations, is the spiritual coming of age.
However, this spiritual coming of age cannot be hurried or forced, but must appear when the consciousness is ready, exactly as the flowering of a bulb can only be the result of natural growth. You have to demonstrate where you are. To seek to demonstrate beyond your understanding is not spiritual. Fix your attention upon spiritual things, and without consciously trying to make haste you will be amazed to discover the pace at which your soul has hastened.
To take a simple example: Suppose that in a street accident you find that a man has severed an artery and the blood is spurting out. The normal course is that unless this bleeding is stopped the victim will die. Now, what is the spiritual attitude to take in such a case? Claim the ability of God to heal. If your faith is strong enough the severed artery will immediately be healed. But if your faith fails, you must take the usual steps to save the man’s life by immediately improvising a tourniquet, or whatever the proper procedure may be, still claiming divine aid.
Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised) …(Hebrews 10:23).
With great freedom comes great responsibility. As we mature spiritually we must be ever conscious that as our spiritual power grows, we must use it more to serve God every day. If we let it start serving ourselves, then we turn on to a very unsafe path that will deny us further spiritual growth. If we proceed down that path, it will lead us to a loss of spiritual power and ultimately to our downfall.
Staying on the path,
Z Gardener
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