March 30, 2020-Chapter 3: Separated Unto The Holy Ghost- Question 5

QUESTION: 5

What danger do we face with the “work of God” that He gives us to do and with our own Christian lives, that can lead us to crash and burn in our walk with Him? (Page 37)

ANSWER To Question 5 (As stated by the Author)

A terrible danger in Christian work, just as in a Christian life that is begun with much prayer, begun in the Holy Spirit, is that it may be gradually shunted off on to the lines of the flesh; and the word comes: "Having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?" In the time of our first perplexity and helplessness we prayed much to God, and God answered and God blessed, and our organization became perfected, and our band of workers became large; but gradually the organization and the work and the rush have so taken possession of us that the power of the Spirit, in which we began when we were a small company, has almost been lost.

As new Christians in the Lord, we understand and know the power of the Holy Spirit in our lives. But as Andrew Murray states in this chapter, we begin to gradually lose the power of the Holy Spirit and begin to rely on our own power of the flesh and then start to question where is God in our life.

It's not God who's abandon us...it is us who have abandon God in our surrender to Him as we gave to Him in our salvation. Remember what Ephesians 2:8-9 says...it is by His grace we are saved, His free gift, not works. And then in verse 10, Paul continues to say, that His work in us still continues by His grace, not by our flesh. "For we are His workmanship created in Christ Jesus..."

May we all continue to remember to be daily surrendered to our Lord, moment-by-moment, to see God work in our lives by His power not ours!