He said, “My grace is all you need. My
power works best in weakness.” So now I am glad to boast about my weaknesses,
so that the power of Christ can work through me. 2 Corinthians 12:9
What is
your idea of power? What is your mentality concerning power? Are you clamoring
for power, wanting power? Well, it all works out this way. True power from
God's standpoint is Calvary power. Christ crucified is the power of God. What
is Calvary power? Well, it is emptiness of self, you and I being emptied of
self – and truly, that is easier said than endured! Oh, how very much there is
of this self about us still! How we hate – how we suffer – being emptied of
ourselves! What a terrible thing it is to feel our inability – to know that we
do not count in ourselves. Oh, to be ABLE! And yet have we not
proved, again and again, that our times of greatest emptiness and weakness have
been the times when God has done most, and got glory by what He has done? Yes,
it has been true. We have learnt it along various lines and different ways, but
God has been working right into the very inside of us, so that the thing is
done – it becomes a part of us. He does not have to maintain it by external
conditions. But He frequently uses such – very often physical – conditions, to
bring us to that place of utter dependence upon Himself. It is really not good
enough, is it, to be forced to it, compelled to it? That is God's way of
education, but it would be very much better for us to be fit and well and as
dependent upon God as ever.
So it all
resolves itself into the need, in the first place, for what is meant by being
born from above: an entirely new nature and disposition, to begin with, and
then a letting God do His work of conforming us to the image of His Son. I am
not saying that works and words do not come in, but it is a heartbreaking
business to be working and speaking with no power, and no registration of
heaven. The Lord give us light as to what He means by this.
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