“Every branch that beareth fruit, he cleanseth
it, that it may bring forth more fruit” (John 15:2).
“Training of all kinds today is aimed at developing the soul of the
natural man, to make him independent, proud, quick-witted, self-assured. This
generation loves men that can get the better of others. In thus fitting them to
Satan’s use it is doing his work for him.
“What God is engaged upon with you and me is the pruning work of the
vinedresser. That untimely growth in our souls has to be checked and dealt
with. God must cut it off. On the one hand he is seeking to bring us to the
place where we live by the life of his Son, planted within us by new birth. On
the other, he is doing a direct work in our hearts to weaken the fund of our
natural resources which led in the first place to Adam’s sin. Every day we are
learning these two lessons: a rising up of the life of this One, and a checking
and handing over to death of that other natural life, so that in the world’s
eyes we stand as weal, ignorant men who often have to admit: ‘I do not know –
but he knows, and that is enough.’ May God deliver us from today’s arrogance of
soul!”
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