The way of Illumination

You remember again how Psalm 139:23 the writer says: " Search me, O God, and know my heart." You realize, do you not, what it means to say that I search myself. "Search me" means "You search me!" That is the way of illumination. It is for God to come in and search; it is not for me to search. Of course that will never mean that I may go blindly on, careless of my true condition. That is not the point. The point is that however much my self-examination may reveal in me that needs putting right, such searching never really gets below the surface. My true knowledge of self comes not from my searching myself but from God searching me.

But you ask, what does it mean in practice for us to come into the light? How does it work? How do we see light in his light? Here again the Psalmist comes to our help. "The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple" (Pslam 119:130). In spirtual things we are all "simple". We are dependent on God to give us understanding, and especially is this so in the matter of our own true nature. And it here that the Word of God operates.

A staple in my diet of life.

Wathman Nee, Page 238 The Cross and the Soul of life; The Normal Chrisitan Life

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Daily as I lay at your feet to be searched you overwlem me God with your love and I persevere in your strength. We never get this moment again.

alone, present, greatful , illuminating; may I honor you

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