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There is rest in the blessed yoke That knows no will but His; That
learns from His path, and All power and
real effective service will be found to spring from entire submission. Circumstances
would not trouble if they did not find something in us contrary to God;
they would rustle by as the wind. Until the will
has been crushed in the presence of the majesty of God, there cannot be
a right state before God. There is nothing
that forms the heart, breaking down the will in us, like the delight
that we have in Christ in fellowship with the Father. Whenever I act in
my own will in anything, I am wronging God of His own title through the
blood of Christ. The breaking of
the will is a great means of opening the understanding. It is only when
the will mixes itself up with the sorrow that there is any bitterness
in it, or a pain in which Christ is not. “So it seemed
good in thy sight” was the hinge of the Lord’s comfort. Liberty of will
is just slavery to the devil. We want our
hearts to get right; we want our wills broken down; if we go to look at
Christ as … presented to us in Gethsemane, can we seek to satisfy the
will now? There is a
wonderful difference between a soul … whose will has been broken and
made subject, and one which, while seeking to do right, does it
according to its own will. If the soul walks
with God, it is not hard, but it is submissive; and there is no softer
spirit, nor one which is more susceptible of every feeling than
submission; but then it takes the will out of the affections without
destroying them, and that is very precious. God is full of
mercy and has compassion on us and on our weakness. He is tender and
pitiful in His ways; but if we are determined to follow our own will,
He knows how to break it. … The worst of all chastening is that He
should leave us to follow our own ways. He (the Lord
Jesus Christ) takes the sorrows of human nature—weariness, hunger; but
with a heart that never was weary when a service of love was to be
performed. … It is most sweet and blessed to see it, and to see He had
no will of His own in it. When they tell Him, “He whom thou lovest is
sick,” we should have thought He would have started off at once. No, He
abode two days still where He was, He had no commandment from His
Father. We see it was to shew His Godhead. Still, as a servant, He had
no word, and He did not stir. It seemed very hard. His home, if He had
one on earth, was that house at Bethany. You never find Him going out
of the place of a servant, and He never was anything but the perfection
of love in it. 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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