Things That Differ

by T. Austin-Sparks

Lack of spiritual perception and discernment is accountable for more confusion, paralysis, ineffectiveness, and failure in Christian life and service than we realise.

This lack is itself an indication of many things, but primarily of failure to mature or develop in spirit. In other words it implies spiritual infancy. There are very many of the Lord's children, truly born again, who, while they have become mature men and women, rich in experience so far as Christian work and works are concerned; and more or less mellowed by years, made steady by disillusionments and the vanishing of fancies, dreams, idealisms, romances, before the chilly winds of frigid facts; whose sympathies are enlarged because of an expanded knowledge of human weakness and suffering, and who, in many other ways have become good and kindly and full of that knowledge which restrains from extremes and checks preponderances, are, nevertheless, still very immature in those spiritual faculties which discriminate in things that differ.

(This e-book can be downloaded for free at Austin-Sparks.Net)

Genres: Biblical Studies

14 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 30, 2012

Reviews

[Erik · Rating 4 out of 5]

This a short survey on Ministry, Salvation, Service and Righteousness that first appeared in “A Witness and A Testimony" magazines, 1927 & 1932”. Since its so short it’s worth the read since it’s a small time commitment and if not for that reason than for the challenge of mulling over this statement on page 15: “We are saved when we come to see by Divine illumination that sin is what we are, and that in His Cross Jesus Christ representatively and substitutionally took us under the judgment of God against a sinful race, and has set us aside by nature, so that in Christ risen we take our stand by faith as having died to sin.” For all of you seeking the Lord in earnest, you won’t be disappointed in this one.