All God’s Speaking Wrapped In One Person
Light already present, gently revealed, listening to the Father’s Word in Jesus.
Devotional Credit: Open Windows, T. Austin-Sparks, “The On-High Calling, Chapter 5”
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God has spoken in many ways in the past. In these days He speaks in one way, in His Son. That is the heart of today’s reading. Brother T. Austin-Sparks points our eyes to Jesus as the single, complete Word from the Father. If we want to know the Father’s mind, we look to Jesus. If we want to know how the Father moves toward us, we look to Jesus. If we want to understand our calling together as His people, again, we look to Jesus.
This is not a heavy message. It is a freeing one. The Father is not scattering His voice in confusing directions. He is centering every promise, every yes, every bit of clarity in the Person of His Son. The old ways were many. The new way is one, and that one is enough. In Jesus, we do not lack a single word we truly need.
There is honesty here about the road. The writer calls it the training of sons. Sometimes the lessons land in hard soil. Yet the Father’s aim is not to break us with demands. His aim is to share the life of His Son with us, to form a people who travel as companions of Jesus. We are not isolated achievers. We are a body called into a shared inheritance in the Messiah.
So I want to say thank you to T. Austin-Sparks for stirring this focus again. God is still speaking in His Son. Not as a private code for a few, but as the living center for the church. In Jesus we discover that God is not withholding anything. We have nothing apart from Jesus, and we need nothing apart from Him.
Journal Entry – Voice of the Holy Spirit Through Scripture
I speak in the Son. When you listen to Jesus, you hear My heart without distortion. In Him are all My promises as yes, and in Him you answer with amen. Look at Him and see My fullness made near. I am not giving you fragments. I am giving you a Person who is the image of the invisible God, the One through whom all things were made, the One in whom all things hold together.
I am forming you as companions of My Son. I lead you as children I love. My training is not rejection. It is participation in the life of Jesus. I set you apart in Him. I seat you with Him. I pour every blessing in the heavenly places upon you in Him. When the path is steep, remember that you share His life. I carry you through as you yield to Me.
You died with Jesus, and you live with Him. Count this true. Present yourselves to Me as those alive from the dead. Abide in My Son, and fruit will grow in season. Apart from Him you can do nothing. In Him you lack nothing. I am at work to will and to work for My good pleasure in you, so walk forward with open hands, trusting that I supply what I command.
Fix your gaze on Jesus. Draw near with confidence because your High Priest lives. I have given you everything needed for life and godliness through knowing Him. You are heirs with Him, indwelt by My Spirit. My witness in you is life in the Son. Rest in this, and move in this. I am faithful to complete what I began.
Real-Life Analogy
Think of a dimmer switch in your dining room. The power is already in the house. The wiring is in the walls. The fixture is set. When you slide the dimmer, the room brightens. You are not creating electricity. You are drawing on what is already present. In the same way, the Spirit of Jesus lives in you. The Father’s Word has already arrived in Jesus. You are not manufacturing light. You are yielding to a Person who is your light.
A simple practice for today. Before a conversation that tends to get tense, pause for a quiet second and set your heart toward Him. You might say, Lord, I yield this moment to You. Express Your patience and clarity through me as I listen and speak. Then go into the conversation with a gentle tone, letting Jesus carry the weight of the outcome while you respond in honesty and peace.
Prayer of Confidence
Father, thank You that You have spoken fully in Your Son. Thank You that in Jesus every promise is already yes. Thank You that Your Spirit lives in me, confirming my place in Your family and shaping me as a companion of the King. Today I accept Your training with trust. I count myself alive with Jesus. I abide, I yield, and I expect Your life to flow. In every word I speak and every task I touch, I rest in the completeness I already have in Christ. Amen.
Scripture References for the Voice of the Holy Spirit Through Scripture Section
Hebrews 1:1-2; 2 Corinthians 1:20; Colossians 1:15-20; John 1:1-3, 14; Hebrews 12:5-11; Ephesians 1:3; Romans 6:4-11; Galatians 2:20; John 15:1-8; Philippians 2:13; Romans 8:14-17; Romans 8:29-39; Hebrews 3:1; Hebrews 4:14-16; Colossians 2:9-10; 2 Peter 1:3; 1 John 5:11-12; Matthew 17:5