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Resting in Him, February 23
Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in
heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
Matthew 11:29
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While you have been walking in meekness and lowliness of heart, a work
has been going on for you, a work which only God could do; for it is God
that worketh in you, both to will and to do of His good pleasure. And that
good pleasure is to have you abide in Christ, rest in His love. You must not
let anything rob your soul of peace, of restfulness, of the assurance that you
are accepted just now. Appropriate every promise; all are yours on condition
of your complying with the Lord’s prescribed terms. Entire surrender of your
ways, which seem so very wise, and taking Christ’s ways, is the secret of
perfect rest in His love.
Giving up one’s life to Him means much more than we suppose. We
must learn His meekness and lowliness before we realize the fulfillment of
the promise “Ye shall find rest unto your souls.” It is by learning the habits
of Christ, His meekness, His lowliness, that self becomes transformed—by
taking Christ’s yoke upon you and then submitting to learn. There is no one
who has not much to learn. All must come under training by Jesus Christ.
When they fall upon Christ, their own hereditary and cultivated traits of
character are taken away as hindrances to their being partakers of the divine
nature. When self dies, then Christ lives in the human agent. He abides in
Christ, and Christ lives in him.
Christ desires all to become His students. He says, Yield yourselves to
My training; submit your souls unto Me. I will not extinguish you, but will
work out for you such a character that you shall be transferred from the lower
school to the higher grade. Submit all things to Me. Let My life, My patience,
My longsuffering, My forbearance, My meekness, My lowliness, be worked
out in your character, as one that abides in Me.... Then you have the promise
not only “I will give,” but “Ye shall find rest unto your souls.”—
Bible Training
School, August 1, 1903
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