POWERED BY FATHER’S LOVE
OTHERS CAN BUT YOU CANNOT
If Father has called you to be really like Jesus, He will draw you into a life of crucifixion and humility and put upon you such demands of obedience, that you will not be able to follow other people, or measure yourself by other Christians; and in many ways He will seem to let other people do things which He will not let you do.
Other Christians, and even ministers who seem to be very ‘religious’ and useful, may push themselves, pull wires, and work schemes to carry out their plans; but you cannot do it, and if you attempt it, you will meet with such failure and rebuke from the Lord as will make you sorely repentant.
Others may boast of themselves, of their work, of their success, of their writings, but the Holy Spirit will not allow you to do any such thing; and if you begin it, He will lead you into some deep mortification that will make you despise yourself and all your good works.
The Lord may let others be honoured and put forward, and keep you hidden in obscurity, because He wants to produce some choice, fragrant fruit for His coming glory, which can only be produced in the shade. He may let others be great, but keep you small.
He may let others do a work for Him and get the credit for it, but He will make you work and toil without knowing how much you are doing; and then, to make your work still more precious, He may let others get the credit for the work which you have done, and thus make your reward ten times greater when our Lord Jesus comes.
The Holy Spirit will put a strict watch over you, with a jealous love, and will rebuke you for little words and feelings, or even for wasting your time and money, which other Christians never seem distressed about.
So make up your mind that God is an infinite Sovereign, and has a right to do as He pleases with His own. He may not explain to you a thousand things which may puzzle your reason in His dealings with you; but if you absolutely sell yourself to be His love slave, he will wrap you in a jealous love, and bestow upon you many blessings which come only to those who are in the inner circle.
Settle it forever then, that you are to deal directly with the Holy Spirit, and He is to have the privilege of tying your tongue, or chaining your hand, or closing your eyes, in ways that He does not seem to use with others.
Now when you are so possessed with the living God, in your secret heart, pleased and delighted over this peculiar, personal, private and jealous guardianship of management of the Holy Spirit over your life, you will have found the vestibule of Heaven.
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