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Lord! let me wait for Thee alone: My life be only this— To serve Thee here on earth unknown, Then share Thy heavenly bliss.Love for Jesus
sets one to work. I know no other way. All true service
must result from the knowledge of Himself. The grand secret
of power in these days is faith in the presence of the Spirit of God. Living to God
inwardly is the only possible means of living to Him outwardly.
All outward activity not moved … by this … tends to make us do without
Christ, and brings in self. … I dread great activity without great
communion. What need we have
to cast ourselves entirely on Him (the Spirit) in the work, and how
simple it is when we do this! There is one thing that gives strength
and that is to keep close to Christ. … The pressure of the work without
that … contracts the heart, tends to make us lose that largeness of
heart, that capacity of presenting the love of God freshly to souls. It is not that I
believe in the work one will always be in that liberty which sees all
in the light. It is necessary to walk by faith sometimes. Alas! the
best workmen have borne witness to it; an apostle, an earthen vessel …
placed in a contest between the Lord and the enemy of souls, will feel
sometimes the shock of the battle, seeing it takes place in him and by
him and the engaged forces. Oh! for labourers
who after God’s heart might present Christ to souls. A real workman,
“a man of God,” is a great, the greatest treasure in the world. It is a dangerous
thing to be raised all at once into a pulpit. … Man’s acceptation is
not God’s approbation, although God can give it to us to favour the
propagation of the truth; but if we stop at the result we are at a
distance from the source, and that becomes a snare to wither up our
soul, instead of a means to lead us to those upon whom we should pour
out His riches. In connection
with your work … seek the Lord’s face, and lean on Him. Work is a
favour which is granted us. Be quite peaceful and happy in the sense of
grace; then go and pour out that peace to souls. This is true service,
from which one returns very weary it may be in body, but sustained and
happy; one rests beneath God’s wings, and takes up the service again
till the true rest comes. Oh! how little
have we of the Spirit, to baffle the plans and devices and snares of
Satan! The church ought to be not only in possession of truth but so
possessed with the Spirit as, though tried, to baffle all his snares.
This is what so humbles me … no strength or adequate power to keep
every saint by the presence of His Spirit out of his power. “If any thirst, let him come unto me and drink, and out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.” You drink for yourself, you thirst for yourself, thus it is that rivers flow from us for others. Pilgrim Portions - Meditations for the Day of Rest - Selected from the Writings, Hymns,
Letters, etc., of J. N. Darby SEDIN-Servicio Evangélico |
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