A Higher Walk

There is a higher walk. It is true that the only way to the Father is through our Lord Jesus, but after accepting salvation and receiving the baptism of the Holy Spirit, there is still a higher walk.

There is a song called 'Show Me Your Glory' and a lyric of the song reads 'when I climb down the mountain, and get back to my life, I won't settle for ordinary things.' I remember some years back, when I was just a babe in Christ, my father-in-law said to me, 'Ryan, you don't have to come down the mountain.' I believe this is what the Lord would say to us, today, if we would go to the place where we can hear His voice clearly. And in the times to come, when darkness covers the earth, and the former and latter rain is poured out, we will not be offered that liberty to go up and down the mountain as we please. Simply put, when judgment and destruction has come upon the nations and even those who say they are Christians (judgment begins at the house of God), those who choose to taste of this world and deny the very place of protection that God has offered His people will have no second chance. When the time of the Gentiles is fulfilled, a time of grace and mercy, God will seal the door and outside of it will be whaling and knashing of teeth. The five wise virgins will be sealed by God, but the five foolish virgins, those who did not take the time to attain the oil (the Spirit of God), those who will say 'didn't we do this or that in your name,' will not be able to enter into the chamber of God. God will shut the door, and they will not be ready. They were offered the same amount of time as the wise, but did not value the Spirit of God. They looked the same, walked the same, and even said some of the same things, but the wise took the time to know the voice of God and live their life in the Spirit. God is not looking for those who are pleased with the words of men, but rather those who live by every word that proceeds out of His mouth and who frame their very life around what God speaks to them. The Spirit of God is a necessity for living and communing with God, and the time soon comes when He will make the difference between those who are filled with the oil and those who are not. The earnest of the Spirit, the best life insurance, is what God desires to give all who spend their time listening to what He has to say.

There was a great man of God named Smith Wigglesworth (mighty signs and wonders following after him), who once said, 'I wouldn't want anyone to build anything around me, but one thing is certain. If you find me out of conversation with man, you will find me in conversation with God.' There is a place in God where He is always communing with you, always speaking, a place where He calls you friend. And if you and I would believe God's word, surely He would do nothing unless He revealed it unto His servants first (Amos 3:7). God is looking for those who will come and continually worship at His throne. Those who choose to humble themselves before Him and put on humility that He may lift them up. God does behold us daily, waiting for us to seek Him out, but we must know that entering into His presence and staying at the feet of our Lord Jesus is where our strength is. It is there where the Lord will take you by the hand, lift you up and tell you to come with Him. To show you the things to come. I tell you this from experience. The Lord wants to lift up His people so that we may walk as He walked, to think it not robbery to be equal with Him. You will not hear this in the churches of today because they want you to think that you should aspire to be like their best minister or their most eloquent speaker --they love the approval of men more than the approval of God. But I tell you , if the Lord has spoken it, let it be so in us. Remember, Jesus will be our shepherd in these times, not any man.

The Lord wants us to be without spot and wrinkle, to be blameless before men and to stay unspotted from the world. Then we can put on the mind of Christ, who was perfect in every aspect of His life, and walk as He walked. Doing greater things here on earth than He did, if we believe. The Lord said it so why shouldn't we believe Him? But we must never let pride be lifted up because it is here were many people who were once in God, go left or right. They forget that without faith there is no pleasing God, and they begin to speak their own words and desires rather than just humbling themselves before God to be used as a mouthpiece. The word doesn't come to us only, or through us only. It was established before the beginning of the world by God Himself, we should just be thankful that He reveals it to us by His Spirit.

There is a higher walk. We do not have to come down the mountain, but can stay in the place where God's Spirit is so strong in us, that we have no desire for sin. Doubt and fear will flee, and condemnation will have no place in us. Let it be so, Lord Jesus, even as you have spoken it.

Love In Him,
Ryan

Matthew 25: 1-12
¹Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. ²And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. ³They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:⁴But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.⁵While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.⁶And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him. ⁷Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps. ⁸And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out. ⁹But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves. ¹⁰And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut. ¹¹Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. ¹²But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.