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us to? That is
the "armour of light"--true transparency. This may sometimes be
humbling, but it will help us to a new reality with Christ, and to a new
self-knowledge. We have become so used to the fact that God knows
all about us that it does not seem to register with us, and we inevitably
end by not knowing the truth about ourselves. But let a man begin to be
absolutely honest about himself with but one other, as God guides him,
and he will come to a knowledge of himself and his sins that he never
had before, and he will begin to see more clearly than ever before
where the redemption of Christ has got to be applied progressively to
his life. This is the reason why James tells us to put ourselves under the
discipline of "confessing our faults one to another."
In 1 John 1:7, of course, the purpose of "walking in the light" is that we
might "have fellowship one with another." And what fellowship it is
when we walk this way together! Obviously, love will flow from one to
another, when each is prepared to be known as the repentant sinner he

is at the Cross of Jesus. When the barriers are down and the masks are
off, God has a chance of making us really one. But there is also the
added joy of knowing that in such a fellowship we are "safe." No fear
now that others may be thinking thoughts about us or having reactions
toward us, which they are hiding from us. In a fellowship which is
committed to walk in the light beneath the Cross, we know that if there
is any thought about us, it will quickly be brought into the light, either
in brokenness and confession (where there has been wrong and unlove),
or else as a loving challenge, as something that we ought to know about
ourselves.
It must not, however, be forgotten that our walk in the light is first and
foremost with the Lord Jesus. It is with Him first that we must get
things settled and it is His cleansing and victory that must first be
obtained. Then when God guides us to open our hearts with others, we
come to them with far more of a testimony than a confession (except
where that is specifically due) and we praise God together.
Teams of Two for Revival.
Jesus wants you to begin walking in the light with Him in a new way
today. Join with one other--your Christian friend, the person you live
with, your wife, your husband. Drop the mask. God has doubtless
convicted you of one thing more than another that you have got to be
honest with them about. Start there. Be a team of two to work for
revival amongst your circle. As others are broken at the Cross they will
be added to your fellowship, as God leads. Get together from time to
time for fellowship and to share your spiritual experience with real
openness. In complete oneness pray together for others, and go out as a
team with fresh testimony. God through such a fellowship will begin to
work wondrously. As He saves and blesses others in this vital way,
they can start to live and work as a fellowship too. As one billiard ball
will move another billiard ball, so one group will set off another group,
until the whole of our land is covered with New Life from the risen
Lord Jesus.
CHAPTER 4

THE HIGHWAY OF HOLINESS
One of the things that we must learn if we are to live the victorious
Christian life is its utter simplicity. How complicated we have made it!
Great volumes are written, all sorts of technical phrases are used, we
are told the secret lies in this, or that and so on. But to most of us, it is
all so complicated that, although we know it in theory, we are unable to
relate what we know to our practical daily living. In order to make the
simple truths we have been considering even clearer, we want in this
chapter to cast them all in picture form.
The Highway.
An "over-all" picture of the life of victory, which has come to many of
us is that of the Highway in Isaiah 35: "And an highway shall be there
and a way and it shall be called the way of holiness." The picture is that
of a Highway built up from the surrounding morass, the world. Though
the Highway is narrow and uphill, it is not beyond any of us to walk it,
for "the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein." Though
there are many dangers if we get off the road, while we keep to the
Highway