Page 6 - Evidence of Things Unseen

Finally, I offer a word of caution that I have copied from the editor's preface to “The
Inner Life” by Francois Fenelon. I think it is highly appropriate to this work:

And now, beloved reader, one word in conclusion, from the love of God to you.
God has led you, in his Providence, to open this book that He may do you good. If
through His infinite mercy you have had a personal experience of the matters herein
written, your heart will be filled with thanksgiving and praise as you read. What hath
God wrought! If not, you will find many things strange, and it would not be
surprising if you should be ready to pronounce some untrue. But ah! beware of being
wise in your own conceit! The Spirit of God that searcheth the deep things of God,
alone can decide.
Do not distrust the reports of these spies whom God has sent before you into the
promised land. It is a land flowing with milk and honey; true, the children of Anak
are there, in whose sight we are but as grasshoppers, but they are bread for us. The
Lord God, He it is that shall fight for us, and He will surely bring us into that
exceeding good land.
The natural man receiveth not the things of God, for they are foolishness unto
him; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. If, then, you
have not experienced the things that follow, think it not strange that they should
seem foolish and false; in God's own time they shall be perceived, if you follow on to
know.
If you will be advised by one who knows nothing, and who is least in the
household of faith, you will deny nothing--reject nothing--despise nothing, lest haply
you be found fighting against God: you will receive nothing but what is accompanied
by the Amen of the Spirit of God in your heart; all else shall be as the idle wind.

Amen to that.

Glen Pickren