Let us ever remember that the Lord has a governing object in mind in the family, and that the family is not an end in itself. Spiritual fulness is His end, not only spiritual fellowship. Much loss has been suffered by the Lord and His people by other forms taking the place of the spiritual fulness. Beware of substitutes. Beware of letting go of something of the measure for which you have been apprehended. This is one of the perils of isolation and the scattering from the family where your home has been.
The one powerful bond of a true family is that desire and will of it's head governs all it's members.If the Lord's desire for spiritual fulness governs us all, it will be a safeguard or guiding principle, and motive -power which delivers from many personal and lesser interests or considerations which would eventuate in limitation and disappointment.
We are quite certain that spiritual fulness is only possible by emancipation from the artificial and man-made system of procedure which obtains today, and a return to a simple but powerful basis of organic life kept pure by the direct government of the Holy Spirit, as it was at the first. Well, beloved the Lord open your hearts to all that is of Himself, and our prayer is, in the words of an Apostle, that " none of you should be deemed to have come short".
T.Austin Sparks editor's letter March/April 1941
The one powerful bond of a true family is that desire and will of it's head governs all it's members.If the Lord's desire for spiritual fulness governs us all, it will be a safeguard or guiding principle, and motive -power which delivers from many personal and lesser interests or considerations which would eventuate in limitation and disappointment.
We are quite certain that spiritual fulness is only possible by emancipation from the artificial and man-made system of procedure which obtains today, and a return to a simple but powerful basis of organic life kept pure by the direct government of the Holy Spirit, as it was at the first. Well, beloved the Lord open your hearts to all that is of Himself, and our prayer is, in the words of an Apostle, that " none of you should be deemed to have come short".
T.Austin Sparks editor's letter March/April 1941
