WE CAN’T HIDE FROM OURSELVES

 by "Wholly His"

The nature that generates our life, whether carnal or Divine, is always with us. Consequently, our soul always feels either the disturbance or the tranquility that stems from the nature that is given place to influence it. Anytime a soul is governed by the carnal nature it will be, at the very least, restless and uneasy. Anytime a soul is governed by the Divine nature, it will experience Heavenly peace. 

Though unaware of it, carnal man is constantly seeking something to numb himself or provide some form of escape from his inward discomfort. He often resorts to busyness as a means of temporary relief; going here and there, searching here and there, and trying this or that. It won’t work! 

The soul of fallen man is in a state of disorder which produces a perpetual whirling motion of anguish within it. There is only one way to re-establish the proper order which will bring an end to that which generates and sustains the whirling motion of anguish. It is by rejecting every influence of the beastly nature that was inherited through the fall of Adam and fully embracing the power of the gospel to produce a re-birth of the Light and Spirit of God within the soul to become it’s only sources of illumination and inspiration, just as they were so long as Adam continued in his original right state of being. 

There is no peace for the soul of man without receiving this work of restoration and continually yielding to the influences of the Divine nature in order for them to generate the mindset, all that is allowed, all that is consented to, all that is said and all that is done. See Genesis 3, Ecclesiastes 3:18, Matthew 7: 13-23, Luke 9:23-25, Romans 6, Romans 8: 1-14, Galatians 2:20, Ephesians 2: 1-10 and 2 Corinthians 5: 14-21.

Psalm 116:15 "Precious in the sight of the LORD [is] the death of his saints."

There is a death, a putting off of the old man that must take place in all those that would come after Christ. It is referred to as “death to self”. We are told from the beginning to count the cost. It will be a putting away of all that is of us and gives way to Christ and His Life. It is a giving up of our rights, our natural wants and desires and often to submitting to unpleasant and “unjust” situations, knowing we are in the Lord’s hands and only He can allow these things to come our way for our own good in the end. We naturally suffer when our will is crossed; “our” will does not want to die.

But OH! When we agree with the Lord and lay our will down, saying and meaning it, “not my will but your will be done. “I have counted the cost, I am totally in your hands Lord; do unto me as you will, my trust is in You”. With our eyes on Him, there is no better consolation than His Spirit, when His Life rises up in our soul giving us peace and a joy that this world cannot understand even in the roughest of situations.

The world doesn’t know, nor can it know, of this kind of contentment, peace, joy and security in Him. Instead it must fight for its rights and do want seems right in their own eyes. The world seeks after the things of this world to “fulfill” their life, but it is only temporary. It needs continual feeding from the things of the world and is activities. Many times the biggest pleasures they receive from the world, when it is over, they sink down into a greater depression than ever before. Always needing more, the things of the world can never satisfy the soul. Its pleasures only end in dryness and emptiness; leaving them looking for the “next” great thing.

The Lord’s will is that none should have to live that way. He has provided an eternal Life for us that will NEVER fade away.