God's Spirit gives us a fuller experience of Christ to the degree that we are willing to face terrifying truths about ourselves and life, truths that will either destory us or drive us to trust in the Lord. To every Christian, the Holy Spirit reveals just enough about God to support the next level of personal honesty.
If we choose to face the difficult realities the Holy Spirit enables us to face, he then grants a fuller vision of God that permits the process to continue. If we turn from those realities, refusing to believe that God can keep us intact no matter what pain we feel, the Spirit is quenched. He reveals no more of God to us.
Part of our job then, if we are to find God, is to look honestly at those disturbing realities about ourselves and life - realities that could destory all our joy unless God gives us hope.
The Spirit will focus our blurred vision of God as we pursue an awareness of ourselves that immobilizes us into a state of spiritual alertness, in which we are eager to hear the voice of God.
from Moving Through Your Problems Toward FINDING GOD by Dr. Larry Crabb
ISBN 981-00-6401-2
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