The Spirit and the Believer

Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is. And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit [or, as the Greek has it, “in Spirit”]—Ephesians 5:17-18.

As the declarations or revelations of God are to be accepted with implicit faith, when they tell us of a salvation infinitely beyond anything we could have expected or hoped for; so the commands of God are to be received with implicit faith, when they bid us do things far beyond anything we could expect to see carried out in ourselves. True faith bows before the Word of God; for that word can only convey divine facts or principles concerning the salvation accomplished for us. We do wisely to lay our heads in the dust; or we may be tempted to say that the thing revealed is impossible for us, because it is beyond what we could have expected to be true. When, therefore, God lays upon us a command, we should say at once, “It must be true and possible;” though by nature we may be inclined to think, “It is impossible; and