Deeper Life #71

This is the way, walk ye in it.

—Isaiah 30:21

WE CANNOT GROW INTO ENTIRE sanctification; but after we attain this experience, we must grow into all the fullness of Christ. We are not saved and filled with the Holy Spirit to do any special work, but simply to let God work through us.

Oh, we are so desperately concerned about erecting the scaffolding in our lives to build a great work! When God begins to remove it—the scaffolding of our works, etc.—we begin to totter. And when our scaffolding falls, and we are sitting among the ruins, the Holy Spirit whispers, “That was not my staff, upon which you should rest. So I am removing it. You are the work I am after, not your little works. I want you where I can work through you.”

For God’s sake, let Him do what He likes with you.

Prayer Thought: Help me, God, never to hesitate to embark on the path of duty You set before me.

SUGGESTED READING: Isaiah 30:18–21