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Last Journey From Galilee
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Secret of Personal Power
Jesus added, “Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits
are subject to you, but rather rejoice because your names are written
in heaven.” Be careful not to let self-sufficiency come in, leading you
to work in your own strength. Self is always ready to take the credit
if any success follows the work. When we realize our weakness, we
learn to depend on a power that is not our own. See
2 Corinthians
12:10
. Nothing reaches down to our deepest motives of conduct as
fully as a sense of Christ’s pardoning love. We are to come in touch
with God. Then His Holy Spirit will fill us, enabling us to come in
touch with those around us. The more closely you connect yourself
with the Source of light and power, the greater power you will have
to work for God.
As the Seventy listened to Christ, the Holy Spirit was writing
truth on their hearts. Though crowds surrounded them, it was as
though they were shut in with God.
Knowing that they had caught the inspiration of the hour, Jesus
“rejoiced in the Spirit and said, ‘I thank You, Father, Lord of heaven
and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and
prudent and revealed them to babes. Even so, Father, for so it
seemed good in Your sight.’”
The honored of the world, the socalled great and wise men,
could not comprehend Christ’s character. But fishermen and tax
collectors were enabled to see the Invisible. From time to time, as
they surrendered to the Holy Spirit’s power, God illuminated the
disciples’ minds. They realized that the mighty God had wrapped
Himself in humanity and was among them. Often as Jesus had
presented the Old Testament scriptures and showed how they applied
to Himself, they had been lifted into a heavenly atmosphere. They
had a clearer understanding of these things than the original writers
themselves had. Ever afterward, they would read the Old Testament
scriptures as a new revelation from God. They saw Him “whom the
world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him.”
John 14:1
.
The only way for us to gain a more perfect grasp of truth is
by keeping the heart tender and subdued by the Spirit of Christ.
Human science is too limited to understand the plan of redemption.