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THE HIGH
CALLING .... 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 your 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 things, and if you begin it,
He will lead you into some deep mortification that will make you despise
yourself and all your good work. Others
will be allowed to succeed in making great sums of money, or having a 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 dependence on Him,
that He may have the privilege of providing your needs day by day out of the
unseen treasury. The
Lord may let others be honored, and put forward, and keep you 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 a work for
Him, and get credit for it, but He will make you work and toil without knowing
how much you are doing; then to make your work more precious, He will let others
get the credit for the work you have done, and this will make your reward ten
times greater when Jesus comes. The Holy Spirit will put a 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 a
jealous love, and let other people say and do many things that you cannot say or
do. 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 .....author unknown Provided
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