The last post about “being brought into His chamber” was heavy, I know, and long. I don’t make any apologies for it, as everything isn’t for everybody, and it helped bring things together for me, in my Spirit. I’m not always able to make things easy for other people to understand. Call it a writing style, or whatnot, but sometimes after the fact I hear someone else put it into less, more succinct words, and I’m like, “Ahhh, perfect! So much simpler!” :-)
Like the following, which I give credit to another author for writing. Forgiving some of the religious language whose overuse has become problematic in my opinion, I think you’ll get the overall gist.
“The certainty that all Christians experience the ‘abiding presence’ of the Holy Spirit is absolute. There are no conditions to meet, apart form receiving Jesus as Savior. For all who are redeemed, the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit is a reality that can be depended upon. The Holy Spirit is always faithful in His ministry of maintaining our redemption and of making Jesus known to us, and very real within us.
However, the possibility of our experiencing the ‘manifest presence’ of Jesus is conditional. To have the ability to recognize His personal presence when He comes and knocks on the door of our heart, and the capability of being able to rightly respond to Him when He does, is dependent on the ‘set of our spirit’ and upon the development of our spiritual sensitivity.
This means that we must prayerfully keep our spirit poised upward, so we will be able to ‘sense’ His presence when He comes to make known His desire to fellowship with us.
As our love for Jesus grows, we should find ourselves expectantly looking forward to these visitations of His manifest presence. This requires our learning how to open the ‘door of entrance’ into our inner spiritual being, when He comes.
In our new birth, we become a spiritual being – a new creation (2 For 5:17-18). Our spirit has newly born senses that must be developed, just as our natural senses gradually matured as we grew.
“There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body” 1 Cor 15:44b
It it is through these inner spiritual senses that we perceive, or recognize the manifest presence of the Lord.
“Behold, I stand at the door, and knock.” Rev. 3:20a
Those who truly desire His friendship will quickly respond to the manifestation of the fact of His presence (knocking), and invite Him to come within the ‘room’ of their spiritual being. This room (chamber) is the area within our inner being where we commune with the Lord. It is a ‘set apart’ place where He is alone with us (‘His chambers’).” – By Wade E. Taylor, The Secret of the Stairs.
I ran across this after I wrote the last post, and it was very confirming. I’m convinced that those who have the ears to hear, will discern the difference between the “abiding” (i.e. dwelling) presence of Christ in our lives, and the “manifest” presence. The latter is something we have to actively cultivate in our everyday lives if we want to function as the Bride of Christ, and demonstrate to ourselves that we are truly His.
My prayer is to be sensitive to the Spirit’s wind, when it wants to blow upon me, (and not be affected by other winds) and not miss out on “being there,” with God, when He is manifesting His living presence.
Happy Sunday. I hope you enjoyed that last author’s piece. :-)
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