Teach me, Lord, that spiritual maturity is all a matter of directness. The child depends upon its mother for food, warmth, protection, and speech. All of this is indirection. Maturity means directly assimilating what I need.
Jesus is my example here. “I have food to eat of which you know nothing” (John 4:32, Amp.). What food? The food of direct partaking. Out of the spiritual realm Jesus appropriated nourishment, and by faith He was fed.
I sometimes feel jealous of the disciple John’s faith. “He saw and believed” (John 20:8). What did John see? Nothing! Yet he believed. Lord, I desire to see beyond the tangible, as John did, to the spiritual and, seeing that, to believe. My sight is so short, so powerless. It cannot escape space and time; it is trapped by the fleshly veil. If I could only see that heaven is not far away, that God is not remote, that divine resources are not hopelessly beyond me, but near, realizable, and available.
The more I think about it, Lord, the more I realize that great saints live in another world, feed on another food, see intangible things, and believe that which is plainly rubbish to the world. Like Moses, they constantly see the “invisible.” And like all powerful saints, they realize the spiritual and bring it into actuality. Jesus, the King of saints, did this when He fed the five thousand.
The heroes of faith (Hebrews 11) were people who lived in another world; but they maintained contact with this world in order to provide for earthlings the fruit of that other, more real, world.
So today, Lord, You are looking for spiritual heroes again. The world needs them so desperately. How I long to be one of them!
“While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal” (2 Corinthians 4:18).
Daily with the King 