Jesus Christ wanted to take religion out of the external and make it internal and put it on the same level as life itself, so that a man knows he knows God the same as he knows he is himself and not somebody else.22
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When we finally have our meeting with God, it has to be alone in the depths of our being. We will be alone even if we are surrounded by a crowd. God has to cut every maverick out of the herd and brand him all alone. It isn’t something that God can do for us en masse.23
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My plea is that we will not be satisfied to continue on as “external” Christians. The extroverted Christian lives largely for the externals of Christianity, and therefore sadly neglects his inner life and growth.24
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If we do not see beyond the visible, and if we cannot touch that which is intangible, and if we cannot hear that which is not audible, and if we cannot know that which is beyond knowing—then I have serious doubts about the validity of our Christian experience. The Bible tells us that eye hath not seen nor ear heard, neither has it entered into the hearts of men the things that God has laid up for them that love Him.25
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If you are longing after God with the expectation that you are going to be able to think your way through to Him, you are completely mistaken. This is a hunger that cannot be filled by human effort and our travail cannot be in the area either of our wits or our imagination, for in all of this there is an element of “unknowing,” a deep, divine abyss of the Godhead. We dare not settle for anything less!26
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The Spirit of God never promised to fill a man’s head. The promise is that God will fill the heart, or man’s innermost being. The Word of God makes it very plain that the Church of Jesus Christ will never operate and minister and prosper by the stock of knowledge in the heads of Christian believers, but by the warmth and urgency of God’s love and compassion flowing through their beings.27