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An acceptable spiritual life will start with a complete shift in relation between God and the person; not a judicial change simply, but a conscious and knowledgeable change affecting the person's entire nature. The atonement in Jesus' blood makes such a shift judicially possible and the working of the Holy Spirit makes it emotionally gratifying.
In ascertaining relationships we have to start someplace. There must be someplace a fixed core against which everything else is assessed, where the law of relativity doesn't enter and we may state "IS" and make no adjustments. Such a core is God. Everybody and everything else measures from that fixed point. "I am that I am," says God,” I change not."
So let us start with God. Above all, before all is God; first in sequential order, above in rank and post, exalted in dignity and honor. Each soul belongs to God and lives by His pleasure. God being Who and What He is, and we being who and what we are, the sole thinkable relationship between us is one of full lordship on His part and utter submission on ours. We owe Him every honor that it's in our power to give Him.
The minute we make up our minds that we're going to exalt God over all we step out of the Earths parade. We will find ourselves out of adjustment to the ways of the world, and more and more so as we make progress in the holy way. We shall gain a fresh viewpoint; a fresh and different psychology will be formed inside us; a fresh power will start to surprise us.
"Be thou exalted" is the language of triumphant spiritual experience. It's a little key to unlock the doorway to great treasures of grace. It's central in the life of God in the soul. Life ceases to be the perplexed thing it had been before and becomes the real essence of simplicity. He's set his course, and on that course he will stay as though guided by an autopilot. If blown off course for a minute by some harmful wind he will certainly return again. The shrouded motions of the Spirit are working in his favor. He's met his life issue at its core, and everything else has to follow along.
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