"We have
to form habits to express what God’s grace has done in us.
It is not a question of being saved from hell, but of being
saved in order to manifest the life of the Son of God in our
mortal flesh, and it is the disagreeable things which
make us exhibit whether or not we are manifesting His
life.
"Do I
manifest the essential sweetness of the Son of God, or the
essential irritation of ‘myself’ apart from Him?
"The
only thing that will enable me to enjoy the disagreeable is
the keen enthusiasm of letting the life of the Son of God
manifest itself in me.
"No matter how disagreeable a
thing may be, say -- Lord, I am delighted to obey Thee in
this matter -- and instantly the Son of God will press to
the front, and there will be manifested in my human life
that which glorifies Jesus...
"The
moment you obey the light, the Son of God presses through
you in that particular; but if you debate you grieve the
Spirit of God. You must keep yourself fit to let the
life of the Son of God be manifested, and you cannot keep
yourself fit if you give way to self-pity.
"Our
circumstances are the means of manifesting how wonderfully
perfect and extraordinarily pure the Son of God is. ...
It is one thing to choose the disagreeable, and another
thing to go into the disagreeable by God’s engineering.
"If God puts you there, He is amply sufficient...."
[He
assures me:]
"'My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made
perfect in weakness.'
"Therefore most gladly I will rather
boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest
upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in
reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for
Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong."
2 Corinthians 12:9-10
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