Page 27 His people, ,I will teach you which way to go. Don’t be like the horse and mule which have no understanding. There is a great need for understanding among the Lord’s people today. Scores of Christians have imbibed a doctrine that essentially throws out the element of understanding and reduces them to that of a horse or mule where they expect God to pull them to the left and to the right saying, ,Go here; go there. Go here; go there. This is what you do in this situation. This is what you don’t do in this situation. And the Lord says to His people, ,Do not be like that. The point of the passage is simply this: God teaches, instructs, and guides us by giving us understanding. Therefore, seek understanding. And that brings us to the passage that we opened with: Brethren, DO NOT BE CHILDREN IN UNDERSTANDING; however, in malice be babes, but IN UNDERSTANDING BE MATURE. (1 Cor. 14:20, NKJV) I would like to close this chapter by making the following proposition: God’s will for you and me is not like a train track. It’s like a parking lot.
It is the truth which is assailed in any age which tests our fidelity. It is to confess we are called, not merely to profess. If I profess, with the loudest voice and the clearest exposition, every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christianity. Where the battle rages the loyalty of the soldier is proved; and to be steady on all the battle-field besides is mere flight and disgrace to him if he flinches at that one point (Fritz - German Monk and contemporary with Martin Luther).
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