Others Ma}) ~ You Cannot A Searching Message for every Christian. From a Tract by the Bible House o f Los Angeles
making money, or may have a legacy left to them, but it is likely God will keep you poor, because He wants you to have something far better'than gold, namely, a helpless dependence on Him, that He may have the privilege of sup plying your needs day by d'ay out of an unseen treasury. The Lord may let others be honored and put forward, and keep you hidden in obscurity, because He wants to pro duce 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 on 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 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 for wasting your time, which other Christians never seem distressed over. 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 ,puzzle your rea son in His dealings with you, but if you absolutely sell yourself to be His love slave. He will wrap you up 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 that He is to have the privilege
If God 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 good people do things which He will not let you do. Other Christians and ministers who seem 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 to make you sorely penitent. 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. Others may be allowed to succeed in Continued from Page 862 was Paul’s glory and joy. Never should it be overlooked, however, and - the apostle would have them understand it, that, after all, no matter who the human agent might be, the glory and power belonged to God. Paul may plant, and Apollos may water, but God must give the increase (1 Corinthians iii. 6). So, after all, not self-com mendation (in which the opponents of Paul Were indulging) but God-com mendation (such as Paul looked for ward to) alone counts in the final reckoning up of things (x. 8).
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