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OTHERS MAY…YOU
CANNOT
Author
Unknown
If God has called you to be really like Jesus,
He will draw you into a life of crucifixion and
humility,
And put upon you such demands of obedience,
That you will not be able to follow other people,
Or measure yourself by other Christians,
And in many ways He will seem to let other people
Do things 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 you sorely penitent.
Others may boast of themselves,
Of their work, of their successes,
But the Holy Spirit will not allow you to do any such
thing
And if you begin it,
He will lead you into some deep mortification
That will make you despise yourself and all your good
works.
Others may be allowed to succeed in making money,
Or have a legacy left to them,
But it is like God will keep you poor,
Because He wants you to have something better
Than gold, namely a helpless dependence upon Him,
That He may have the privilege of supplying your
needs
Day by day out of an unseen treasury.
The Lord may let others be great,
But keep you small.
He may let others do a work for Him and get credit
for it,
But He will make you work and toil on
Without knowing how much you are doing;
And then to make your work still more precious,
He may let others get credit for the work
Which you have done,
And thus make your reward ten times greater
When Jesus comes.
The Lord may let others be honored and put forward
And keep you hidden in obscurity,
Because He wants to produce some choice fragrant
fruit
For His coming glory,
Which can only be produced in the shade.
The Holy Spirit will put a strict watch over you,
With a jealous love,
And will rebuke you for little words and feelings
Or for wasting your time,
Which other Christians never feel distressed over.
So, make up you mind that God is infinitely Sovereign
And has a right to do as He pleases with His own.
He may not explain to you a thousand things
Which puzzle your reason in His dealings with you,
But if you absolutely sell yourself as His love
slave,
He will wrap you up in a jealous love,
And bestow upon you many blessings
That comes only to those who are in the inner circle.
Settle it forever,
That you are to deal directly with the Holy Spirit,
And He is to have the privilege of tying your tongue,
Or closing your eyes,
Or chaining your hands,
In ways that He does not seem to use with others.
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!
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