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Originally Posted by Igzy
Simply put, enjoying God is the way to experience God and walk with him, because everything about him is delightful.
Like I said to OBW, if you are not enjoying what you are doing, if you are not enjoying your life here on earth, then there is something very wrong with your approach. Likewise for your relationship with God. If you are not thoroughly enjoying it, your approach has gone awry, you’ve gotten religious or negative or something, but you’ve missed the boat.
Lee understood this in a very fundamental way. Although he went off the rails in other areas, this one idea, the idea of enjoying Christ in the Spirit, he got right.
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Actually I would say this is the one idea Lee most definitely got WRONG, because of it was hyper-emphasized to the exclusion of all else. Was Job so wrong to suffer in misery rather than rejoice in the Lord? When we read the Psalms, and hear David crying out to the Lord, do we reprimand him for failing to "enjoy Christ"? This kind of thinking doesn't lead to a strong faith - but a superficial one. A faith based on feelings and emotions. A faith that is rocked whenever life's trials come... and come they will. Both the house built on sand the house built on the rock suffered in the same storm. Do not think your time won't come.
Faith in Christ is Faith in action. Under inspiration of the Holy Spirit James wrote
"What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.
But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works."
Lee didn't know what to do with that Word, so he disparaged the human hand that wrote it - just as he disparaged David in his psalms. What a fool Lee was. David was the man after God's own heart, and the Davidic covenant exceeded all others. James was man whom God used to pen His Holy Word, and a man who died for his faith in Christ. Who was Lee? Lee didn't write scripture, only personal interpretations. Interpretations that lack Biblical support... although they sure did tickle the ears pleasantly, didn't they?