Christ
is all, and in all. (Colossians 3:11)
Beloved,
the Cross was intended only to make the Lord Jesus all, and in all, for us; and
is it not true that, because of the way that the Lord has dealt with us, the way
in which He has applied the Cross, planting us into that death and burial, we
know Him in a way in which we never knew Him before? Is it not by that way that
He has become what He is to us, ever more and more dear to our hearts? The
increase of the Lord Jesus in and to us is by the way of the Cross. We know
quite well that our chief enemy is ourselves, our flesh. This flesh gives us no
rest, no peace, no satisfaction; we have no joy in it. It obsesses, engrosses,
and constantly struts across our path to rob us of the very joy of living. What
is to be done with it? Well, in and by the Cross we are delivered from
ourselves; not only from our sins, but from ourselves; and being delivered from
ourselves we are delivered into Christ, and Christ becomes far more than we.
It
is a painful process, but it is a blessed issue; and those amongst us who may
have had the greatest agony along this line would, I believe, testify that what
it has brought to us of the knowledge and riches of the Lord Jesus has made all
the suffering worthwhile. So the work of the Lord for us and the work of the
Lord in us, by the Cross, is only intended in the Divine thought to make room
for the Lord Jesus.
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