A Voice in the Wilderness
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" The High Calling "
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Others May - You Cannot
If God has called you to be really like Jesus in all your spirit, He
will draw you into a life of crucifixion and humility, and put on you
such demands of obedience, that He will not allow you to follow 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 can brag on themselves, on their work, on their success, on
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 will be allowed to succeed in making great sums of money, or
having legacy left to them or in having luxuries, but God may supply
you daily, because He wants you to have something far better than gold,
and that is helpless dependence on Him, that He may have the
privilege of providing your needs day by day out of His unseen
treasury.
The Lord may let others be honored, and put forward, and keep you hid
away in obscurity, because He wants to produce some choice, fragrant
fruit for His coming glory, which can only be produced in the shade.
God will let others be great, but keep you small. He will let others
do 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 will let others get the credit for
the work which you have done, and this will make your reward ten times
greater when Jesus comes.
The Holy Spirit will put strict watch on 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, and He will not explain to you a thousand things which
may puzzle your reason in His dealings with you. God will take you at
your word; and if you absolutely sell yourself to be His slave, He will
wrap you up in jealous love, and let other people say and do many
things that you cannot do or say. Settle it forever, that you are to
deal directly with the Holy Spirit, and that He is to have the
privilege of tying your tongue, or chaining your hand, or closing your
eyes, in ways that others are not dealt with.
Now when you are so possessed with the living God that you are, in your
secret heart, pleased and delighted over this peculiar, personal,
private, jealous guardianship and management of the Holy Spirit over
your life, you will have found the vestibule of heaven.
by: G.D.Watson
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