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Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 2
If you look to yourself, you will see only weakness. There is no
saviour there. You will find Jesus away from yourself. You must look
to Him and live, look to Him who became sin for us that we might be
cleansed from sin and receive of Christ’s righteousness.
Now, Martha, do not look to yourself, but away to Jesus. Talk of
His love, talk of His goodness, talk of His power; for He will not suffer
you to be tempted above that you are able to bear. But in Christ is
our righteousness. Jesus makes up our deficiencies because He sees
we cannot do it ourselves. While praying for you I see a soft light
encompassing a hand stretched out to save you. God’s words are our
credentials. We stand upon them. We love the truth. We love Jesus.
Feelings are no evidence of God’s displeasure.
Your life is precious in the sight of God. He has a work for you to
do. It is not unfolded to you now, but just walk on trustingly without
a single word because this would grieve the dear Jesus and show that
you were afraid to trust Him. Lay your hand in His. He is reaching
over the battlements of heaven for it to be laid confidingly in His. Oh,
what love, what tender love has Jesus manifested in our behalf. The
Bible promises are the pinks and the roses and the lilies in the garden
of the Lord.
Oh, how many walk a dark path, looking to the objectionable,
unlovely things on either side of them when a step higher are the
flowers. They think they have no right to say they are children of God
and lay hold on the promises set before them in the gospel because
they do not have the evidence of their acceptance with God. They go
through painful struggles afflicting their souls as did Martin Luther to
cast himself upon Christ’s righteousness.
There are many who think they can come to Jesus only in the way
the child did who was possessed of the demon that threw him down
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and tore him as he was being led to the Saviour. You are not of the
kind that should have any such conflicts and trials. Richard Baxter was
distressed because he did not have such agonizing, humiliating views
of himself as he thought he ought to have. But this was explained to
his satisfaction at last, and peace came to his heart.
There is no requirement for you to take on a burden for yourself,
for you are Christ’s property. He has you in hand. His everlasting
arms are about you. Your life has not been a life of sinfulness in the
common acceptance of the term. You have a conscientious fear to do