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The release of the Spirit | Diet 21



WE ARE HIS INSTRUMENTALITY. 

A doctor can use a variety of medical devices while diagnosing a patient. We are not like that. We don't have an x-ray machine, a thermometer, or any other similar tool to help us discern man's spiritual health. Then, how do we identify a brother's spiritual condition or ascertain the type of his problems? 

It's fantastic that God created us to act as measuring "thermometers." He would give us the ability to identify what "ails" a person by first working in our lives. We need to prepare internally well in our role as the Lord's spiritual "doctors."  We must have an inward thorough preparation. We must be deeply aware of how much duty we have. Imagine there was no such thing as a thermometer. The physician would have to decide by simply touching the patient, he could tell if they were feverish. He would use his hand as the thermometer. How delicate and precise would his hand have to be! In spiritual work, this is exactly the case.

To be continued in diet 22

Author: Watchman Nee

Compiled and edited by: Peter O. Olutoyese 


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