Down to You (part 2)

I just finished the book called "The Brokenness of the exterior and the liberation of the spirit" by Watchman Nee. It's been a while since I first started reading it, but in my defense I was fighting against wedding preparations, finals and hostess duties for the family of my sister's fiancee. The point is, I finished it and I may turn around and read it all over again it was so good.

In a previous blog I talked a little bit about David and how he was considered to be a man after God's own heart and that in order to become anywhere near presentable to Christ we should follow his example, looking only to God and our desire should focus wholly and entirely on Him. Have you ever been in love? This is how I imagine the relationship between God and David. David was so moved by God's beauty and grace and power that he stopped everything to praise him, and once even danced shamelessly before Him in the view of the whole city. This love that David had for God was so unbreakable, humble, and sincere that it brought all that excitement in his heart that he couldn't help but dance and leap before Him.

The connection I drew between what I read in this book and the story of David is that nothing can be accomplished by our own strength that will count in the Kingdom. Everything that we do for ourselves, even for others and even for God by the prompting of our own minds, will, soul, strength is done in vain. Everything has to be done in one Spirit with God and His Church and will total abandonment of what we think is what God wants or what is "right," or even what we know to be truth. If my spirit is not right before God, and if my flesh is not completely denied before Him, my effectiveness in the Kingdom will come to a halt and what I do will only bring more harm.

Bless Him too, Paul even mentions David's heart in Romans 4:

"...to him who does not work but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness, just as David also describes the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes righteousness apart from works: Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, and whose sins are covered; Blessed is the man to whom the Lord shall not impute sin."

This is huge!!! Our sins are covered! Even if we screw it up now, we are under the blood of Christ and have already been forgiven. The constant comunion of our spirit with the Holy Spirit is what counts in the Kingdom, not whether or not we're acting right... Although if we are sensitive to this spirit, we will know what the desire of God's heart is: when to act and when to stay still, when to be meek and when to yell, when to pray and when to listen... It's all in one place: in the spirit. So how do we get to that place? Allow God to break our will. Allow Him to show us the truth about who we are. Allow him to take over - the fun part is, He won't screw it up and with Him in control, and our trust safely placed in Him our joy will be uncontrollable, just like David's was.