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Thoughts from the Mount of Blessing
divine element combines with the human when the soul reaches out
after God and the longing heart can say, “My soul, wait thou only upon
God; for my expectation is from Him.”
Psalm 62:5
.
If you have a sense of need in your soul, if you hunger and thirst
after righteousness, this is an evidence that Christ has wrought upon
your heart, in order that He may be sought unto to do for you, through
the endowment of the Holy Spirit, those things which it is impossible
for you to do for yourself. We need not seek to quench our thirst
at shallow streams; for the great fountain is just above us, of whose
abundant waters we may freely drink, if we will rise a little higher in
the pathway of faith.
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The words of God are the wellsprings of life. As you seek unto
those living springs you will, through the Holy Spirit, be brought into
communion with Christ. Familiar truths will present themselves to
your mind in a new aspect, texts of Scripture will burst upon you with
a new meaning as a flash of light, you will see the relation of other
truths to the work of redemption, and you will know that Christ is
leading you, a divine Teacher is at your side.
Jesus said, “The water that I shall give him shall be in him a well
of water springing up into everlasting life.”
John 4:14
. As the Holy
Spirit opens to you the truth you will treasure up the most precious ex-
periences and will long to speak to others of the comforting things that
have been revealed to you. When brought into association with them
you will communicate some fresh thought in regard to the character or
the work of Christ. You will have some fresh revelation of His pitying
love to impart to those who love Him and to those who love Him not.
“Give, and it shall be given unto you” (
Luke 6:38
); for the word
of God is “a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams
of Lebanon” (
Song of Solomon 4:15
). The heart that has once tasted
the love of Christ, cries out continually for a deeper draft, and as you
impart you will receive in richer and more abundant measure. Every
revelation of God to the soul increases the capacity to know and to
love. The continual cry of the heart is, “More of Thee,” and ever
the Spirit’s answer is, “Much more.”
Romans 5:9, 10
. For our God
delights to do “exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think.”
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Ephesians 3:20
. To Jesus, who emptied Himself for the salvation of
lost humanity, the Holy Spirit was given without measure. So it will be
given to every follower of Christ when the whole heart is surrendered