Page 7 - The Divine Unfolding of God's Plan of Redemption

of His mighty power which He wrought in Christ when He raised Him from the dead,
we know that our scale of values was distorted by human and temporal considerations.
We had been occupied with the by-product of Christianity, lofty and laudatory things

in themselves, earthly means to spiritual ends (?), theoretically intended to
demonstrate the love and compassion of Christ. We had defended certain things as
necessary to broaden one‟s vision, enhance the personality by contributing to a store
of “culture,” or we had argued that the exquisite refinement of a certain individual

must betoken a latent spirituality, or we had condoned a certain state of mind or a
given course of conduct as “not so bad” because associated with someone bound to us
by love or kinship. Again, says the Spirit, these also are vanity! High things, they
are, that exalt themselves against the knowledge of God, but must be cast down in

order that our thoughts may come into full captivity to the obedience of Christ (II Cor.
10:5). Masquerading as Christ-glorifiers, they are in reality thieves of His glory,
traitors to self-exaltation, the praise of men, the pride of life.

To enter into the secret place of the Most High there must be definite exercise of the
will in complete surrender to the Holy Spirit working through the Oracles of God, a
strict orientation to the divine revelation. It is necessary to be totally divested of
human predilections and evaluations and to be prepared to take the bankrupt law on all

that pertains to nature.

When the Holy Spirit has brought us down, down, down to the place where we are
willing to say with the Apostle, “Let God be true, but every man a liar”(Rom.3:4),

then the mind of Christ Jesus Who humbled Himself from the pinnacle of the
heavenlies to the depths of the cross, will begin to be in us.

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