Spring 1996
Leaving Room for God
T. Austin-Sparks

On the day of Pentecost, there was "a sound as of a mighty rushing wind."

Have you ever experienced a really mighty rushing wind? The thing about a wind storm is that it takes the government out of all other hands and proceeds to do as it chooses, without reference or deference to conventions, traditions, common acceptances, inclinations, or fixed ideas. While it lasts, it is sovereign.

That is how it was then; but there were those who were offended, shocked, scandalized, and who said in effect that such a way could never be of God.

So we see that for all enlargement and increase, we must leave room for God to do new things, strange things, things that we cannot understand for the moment.

We only put ourselves outside of His intention to enlarge spiritually, if we bind Him to our own fixed judgments.