We saw last week that the two irreplaceable factors for me to live as a Spirit-led believer who is “living by faith” are 1.) living as a little child who 2.) walks in the light with my brothers and sisters about my sin. 
It takes God’s divine revelation in my heart in order to see this truth experientially. This is, as we saw last week, ginosko (experiential) knowledge, and not simply eido (intellectual) knowledge.
However, I firmly believe that once He has this for me, I will self-consciously and joyfully embrace the “little-child-walking-in-the-light” lifestyle!. My job is over! I then become a very interested spectator, watching to see what my Abba (“Daddy”) Father will do in my life—naturally, spontaneously and unconsciously (NSU)!
As my mind is renewed in this way, I am learning, NSU, to live “in the Spirit,” or “by faith,” or “according to the Spirit.” As I do so, I notice two amazing and inevitable truths:
1. I discovered that I AM KEEPING THE LAW OF GOD : “…the righteous requirement of the Law (is) FULFILLED IN US (NOT “BY US”), who do not live according to human nature but according to the Spirit” (Romans 8:4). I literally find myself keeping the Law of God—NSU!
There is no “ought-to,” “need-to,” “or “should” effort to obey involved in this. My substitute teaching experience in the Spokane Public School system was a classic example of this for me.
After some 10 years as a high school chemistry teacher and basketball coach back in the 70s, I tried to return as a substitute teacher after a twenty-five year absence.
The results were unimaginably awful! The lack of respect, contempt for authority, and complete disinterest in learning by the current students was absolutely shocking to me. I lasted for two days and quit in disgust.
However, unbeknownst to me, at that time the Lord was just beginning to teach me the ideas behind “little children walking in the light.” Looking back, I can see my Abba Father had me right on schedule! He eventually led me to return to substitute teaching for a decade at two different geographical locations! The kids were the same (even worse!), but it was I who was changing!
I can see this clearly now, but at the time these changes were completely NSU! By the final year of my teaching career I was learning that this little child named Robert Andrews was called and destined to rule over the earth (Genesis 1:26-28)! As a sub, every time I walked into the 2000+ student high school to go to work, I found myself asking God, “Who are you going to touch today? How will you extend your Kingdom through me today? I can’t wait to see what you will do!”
Interestingly, not only did I find myself doing things like explaining to a fascinated high school class what I did as a New Testament church planter and how that was different from traditional church, but also being ministered to myself! One day I was mesmerized, humbled and greatly encouraged by watching a Middle School librarian at work. She took the very same 30 students I had just struggled to control in class during the previous period, instructed them as a group, and then released them in the library to find the books they needed to complete their assignments. She did so quietly but firmly.
I was impressed. After class, as I complimented her on how she handled those unruly students, I realized she was not even aware of what she had just done, which was all very much NSU. She responded, rather uncomfortably, with “They know that I love them.”
So, looking back now, some seven years later, I was finding myself, NSU, keeping the law of God by extending His Kingdom, as I was created to do!
The second inevitable result, of little children walking in the light, after keeping the law of God, is:
2. I find myself actually WANTING TO KEEP THE LAW OF GOD, not “to be obedient,” but because the behavior the Law of God describes is becoming the NSU behavior I naturally choose! “For it is God who is producing in you both the DESIRE and the ABILITY to do what pleases him” .(Philippians 2:13)
This approach has mind-blowing implications. This actually means I can do the will of God for me by simply being a “little child who walks in the light” and then DO WHATEVER I WANT TO DO! Just as the above verse clearly states, my mind is being renewed so that my desires are being changed without my knowledge to conform to my Abba Father’s desires. Paul tells us in the above verse that this is the way God works!
Do you see that if I am living in this way there will be times I am not “a little child walking in the light.” I will fall back into “trying.” I will no longer simply trust Daddy to make all decisions in my heart but fall into making my own decisions. This awakens old, fleshly habits, i.e., pornography, habitual lateness, fiscal irresponsibility, and other innumerable, already-forgiven sins.
But Paul says not to be discouraged when this happens but to “boast” in these “weaknesses” (2 Corinthians 12:9), because as I return to being a little child walking in the light, God is glorified! Hallelujah!
