Luk 12:49 I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled?
Fire always finds things out.
As it creeps and
encroaches and overtakes, it makes one discrimination between things
that it can devour and things over which it has no power.
It puts them
into those categories; the finding out, the classifying, the deciding.
Look at the context, Luke 12:51 – “Think ye that I am come to give peace in the earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division.” He goes on – “There
shall be from henceforth five in one house divided, three against two,
and two against three. They shall be divided, father against son, and
son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against her
mother; mother in law against her daughter in law, and daughter in law
against her mother in law...” – discriminating, setting things in the category to which they belong.
One category is that which can go on and abide and
endure because it is of God. The other will be licked up by the fire,
and simply pass out of existence.
The fire shall try every man’s work,
said Paul (1 Cor. 3:13). The fire of unavoidable and unerring
discrimination.
That has ever been the effect of a work of the Holy
Spirit; to put us into the place to which we belong. It is a kind of
dividing thing all the time.
Are you for, or are you against? Are you
with, or are you not with the Lord?
Are you going on with the Lord, or
are you not going on with the Lord?
The Holy Spirit is pursuing that
course all the time to find us out and to just classify us like this, so
that when the Holy Spirit has worked we are in definite categories.
Division has come, and it is unavoidable.
~T. Austin Sparks~
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