Fall
1982
True Spirituality
By IQ Spencer
Rewritten by Wade
E Taylor
Many today are presenting truth and revelation from the Word
of God as an end in itself, feeling that this is the mark
of spirituality. The revelation may be genuine and true to
the Word of God, yet unless it finds release and expression
through the body of believers through whom it was received,
it is, in the words of I Corinthians 12:1, but sounding brass
and a tinkling cymbal.
Concerning Jesus, the Word says in John 1:14 that “the
word was made flesh and dwelt among us.” The eternal
creative Word; the Logos of God, the greatest revelation that
God could give to man—His Son, was made flesh, and dwelt
among us as Jesus of Nazareth. That is, in Jesus, the Word
and life were one, and through His life the world saw the
expression of the Word. John said in I John 1:1: “That
which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we
have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our
hands have handled, of the Word of life.”
Our consecration to the Lord, our walk with Him, our fellowship
with the body of believers of which we are a part, our relationship
to the world in which we live must be such that the word and
the revelation we hear and receive finds expression and fulfillment
through our lives: the Word becoming flesh. In Acts 1:8, Jesus
said, “Ye shall be witnesses.” Our growth to maturity
is not determined by the amount of or the greatness of our
revelation, but rather by the application of spiritual laws
and truths to our lives. Israel saw the deeds of God but Moses
walked in the ways of God, and through Moses’ life Israel
saw the result of God’s revelation.
If we today will begin to practice and live what we know,
this nation will be shaken and brought to God. Objective truth
must be personalized in our lives and in our experience before
it is really ours. The Word must become “flesh”
through our lives as the world “handles” us, and
sees his life manifested through us; then they will again
marvel and say “never man spake as this man, for he
speaks as one having authority.”
God is looking for lives that will conform to the truth and
revelation coming forth in this hour; that the truth which
he is speaking today might find its fulfillment in and through
the lives of those whose hearts hunger to know Him. This is
true spirituality.