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To Glorify Christ in Me, Fabruary 14
The Work of the Holy Spirit
He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it
unto you.
John 16:14
In these words Christ declares the crowning work of the Holy Spirit.
The Spirit glorifies Christ by making Him the object of supreme regard,
and the Saviour becomes the delight, the rejoicing, of the human agent
in whose heart is wrought this transformation....
Repentance toward God and faith in Jesus Christ are the fruits of
the renewing power of the grace of the Spirit. Repentance represents
the process by which the soul seeks to reflect the image of Christ to the
world.
Christ gives them the breath of His own Spirit, the life of His own
life. The Holy Spirit puts forth its highest energies to work in heart and
mind. The grace of God enlarges and multiplies their faculties, and every
perfection of the divine nature comes to their assistance in the work
of saving souls. Through cooperation with Christ they are complete in
Him, and in their human weakness they are enabled to do the deeds of
Omnipotence.
It should be the work of the Christian’s life to put on Christ and to
bring himself to a more perfect likeness of Christ. The sons and daugh-
ters of God are to advance in their resemblance to Christ, our pattern.
Daily they are to behold His glory and contemplate His incomparable
excellence.
O that the baptism of the Holy Spirit might come upon you, that
you might be imbued with the Spirit of God! Then day by day you will
become more and more conformed to the image of Christ, and in every
action of your life the question would be, “Will it glorify my Master?” By
patient continuance in well-doing you would seek for glory and honor,
and would receive the gift of immortality.
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