{"id":7704,"date":"2011-07-11T22:31:07","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T02:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/?p=7704"},"modified":"2011-07-11T22:31:07","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T02:31:07","slug":"spiritual-saint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2011\/07\/11\/spiritual-saint\/","title":{"rendered":"THE SPIRITUAL SAINT"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n

That I may know Him.
\n — Philippians 3:10<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The initiative of the saint is not towards self-realization, but
\ntowards knowing Jesus Christ. The spiritual saint never believes
\ncircumstances to be haphazard, or thinks of his life as secular and
\nsacred; he sees everything he is dumped down in as the means of
\nsecuring the knowledge of Jesus Christ. There is a reckless
\nabandonment about him. The Holy Spirit is determined that we shall
\nrealize Jesus Christ in every domain of life, and He will bring us
\nback to the same point again and again until we do. Self-realization
\nleads to the enthronement of work; whereas the saint enthrones Jesus
\nChrist in his work. Whether it be eating or drinking or washing
\ndisciples feet, whatever it is, we have to take the initiative of
\nrealizing Jesus Christ in it. Every phase of our actual life has its
\ncounterpart in the life of Jesus. Our Lord realized His relationship
\nto the Father even in the most menial work. “Jesus knowing…that He
\nwas come from God, and went to God…took a towel…and began to wash
\nthe disciples’ feet.”<\/p>\n

The aim of the spiritual saint is “that I may know Him.” Do I know
\nHim where I am to-day? If not, I am failing Him. I am here not to
\nrealize myself, but to know Jesus. In Christian work the initiative
\nis too often the realization that something has to be done and I must
\ndo it. That is never the attitude of the spiritual saint, his aim is
\nto secure the realization of Jesus Christ in every set of
\ncircumstances he is in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That I may know Him. — Philippians 3:10 The initiative of the saint is not towards self-realization, but towards knowing Jesus Christ. The spiritual saint never believes circumstances to be haphazard, or thinks of his life as secular and sacred; he sees everything he is dumped down in as the means of securing the knowledge…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}