Deeper Life #333

For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things.

—2 Corinthians 2:9

LET ME SHARE A VERY puzzling situation. You have all had experiences, I’m sure, in which people listened to clear Bible teaching, but failed to enter the kingdom of God. Yet, before that same congregation, a speaker gets up and shares a rambling testimony and—to your astonishment—people are born again.

I have attended the City Mission in New York City several times, for example, and I have never once heard correct biblical teaching there. But recently, I heard a man who had been wonderfully saved get up and tell what he was and what he had been. Then four or five others did this too. The Spirit of God got hold of the people in the congregation. Before I knew it, people went to the altar. These rough men knelt down and prayed with them, and the seekers “struck something,” as they say there. Something struck them!

God works in mysterious ways. Correct biblical teaching is a must. But so is obedience from the heart. This is true, no matter how strange or odd the circumstances happen to be.

Prayer Thought: Lord Jesus, I long to be obedient in every detail of Your will for my life—even if others do not understand.

SUGGESTED READING: 2 Corinthians 2