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Sensibility
Sensibility includes sensitiveness, and sensitiveness is
the power to receive delicate impressions. The soul can be
so sensitive that it be made to feel what God feels. It
can feel the presence of God everywhere. It can also feel
the presence of evil. This is a wonderful safeguard of the
soul. It feels the presence of evil in the vagrant
thought, in the lightly spoken word, the hasty action and
flees to God at once for refuge. It feels the presence of
evil in those little worldly things which many say are
harmless. The sensitive soul detects evil there and avoids
them. It is acquainted with the voice of the Shepherd. It
can distinguish between His voice and that of a stranger.
The more perfect the manhood. the more perfect the
sensibility. The higher we rise into the manhood of Jesus
the quicker scented we become, the more easily we detect
the presence of God and the presence of sin. This is
necessary to all holy living. Many a soul today has lost
the sensitiveness they once experienced. Evil things that
they once fled away from in horror they are now embracing.
It is our privilege to grow more sensitive as we grow in
years of service to God. The farther we walk with Him, the
closer we can walk with Him. We can keep step with Him
more perfectly.
The scriptures tell us that Christ was of such quick
understanding that He did not judge by the sight of His
eyes or reprove by the hearing of His ears (See Isa.
11:3). In the margin it reads, "scent or smell."
Christ was quick to detect an ill odor. He was sensitive
to the presence of sin. The more we become like Christ the
more sensitive we shall become. Christianity is a life. It
is a Divine life. In that life there are senses that can
sense Divine things. That life is susceptible to the
impulses of the Holy Spirit. The soul can feel God, taste
Him, hear Him. It is "alive unto God." The soul,
in this Divine life, is not only inwardly sensible to all
the movements of the Holy Spirit, but is also sensitive to
the feelings of men. The sensitive soul feels, not only
what is in God, but is sensible also of what is in man. It
is thus that when one member in Christ's body, the Church,
suffers, all the other members suffer with it. They feel
what the suffering member feels. Is that day past? Not
with all. The sensitive soul weeps with Christ over a lost
world. It feels what Jesus feels.
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