We've Forgotten Our Place

Excerpt- The Spiritual Man - by Watchman Nee

'Upon losing its natural affection on the cross the soul cedes ground to the Holy Spirit that He may shed abroad in the believer’s heart the love of God, and enable him to love in God and with the love of God. '

*My thoughts- Ceding ground to the Holy Spirit. The idea of ceding any of ourselves isn't a very acceptable one, especially in this day and age. We don't even like to have wedding vows with the words 'obey' in them, it's too demeaning any longer to have to 'obey' anyone.  We desire to be masters of ourselves and have no master over us. Yet, truly God wills us to 'cede ground' to the Holy Spirit. We need to allow self to be diminished in the hope that the Holy Spirit will fill us. As we've already studied some, the soul-self part of us will never be replaced- it is a part of us we need.  Soul-self will not be done away with. What needs to happen is the soul-self needs to LEARN its place in us. 

Truly we've all heard of 'people' needing to learn their place. And as soon as I say these words something inside us has been taught to rebel against them saying we are all equals, we should have no place to learn of. The servant is as great at the master, the ditch diggers as wonderful as the surgeons, the drunk as worthy as the policeman, the billionaire as amazing as the homeless man. Equally they are all the same this is what we wish to believe and you know what? It's true in God's eyes, we are all sinners with none of us righteous. However we need to KNOW our place in connection to God, and we are NOT and NEVER will be equal to God. God is our master, God is our Creator. We will NEVER be like the Most High. We will NEVER take the place of God. We can be children of God. We can be the sons and daughters of God.

We need to cede the ground in us that has been overtaken by our soul-self and return it to God so the Holy Spirit can not only live in us, but work in us, through us.

We need to learn our place in relation to God!

We've forgotten our place.

Excerpt- The Spiritual Man - by Watchman Nee

'Upon losing its natural affection on the cross the soul cedes ground to the Holy Spirit that He may shed abroad in the believer’s heart the love of God, and enable him to love in God and with the love of God. '

2Co 6:17  Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, 

2Co 6:18  And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty. 

2Co 7:1  Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. 

Gal 3:26  For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. 

Rom 6:1  What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? 

Rom 6:2  God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? 

Rom 6:3  Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? 

Rom 6:4  Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. 

Rom 6:5  For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: 

Rom 6:6  Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. 

Rom 6:7  For he that is dead is freed from sin. 

Rom 6:8  Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: 

Rom 6:9  Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him. 

Rom 6:10  For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. 

Rom 6:11  Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.