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From Heaven With Love
Secret of Personal Power
Jesus added, “Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits
are subject to you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written
in heaven.” Be careful lest self-sufficiency come in, and you work in
your own strength. Self is ever ready to take the credit if any success
attends the work. When we realize our weakness, we learn to depend
on a power not inherent. See
2 Corinthians 12:10
. Nothing reaches
so fully down to the deepest motives of conduct as a sense of the
pardoning love of Christ. We are to come in touch with God; then
we shall be imbued with His Holy Spirit that enables us to come in
touch with our fellowmen. The more closely you connect yourself
with the Source of light and power, the greater power will be yours
to work for God.
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As the Seventy listened to Christ, the Holy Spirit was writing
truth on the soul. Though multitudes surrounded them, they were as
though shut in with God.
Knowing that they had caught the inspiration of the hour, Jesus
“rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank Thee, O Father, Lord of heaven
and earth, that Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent,
and hast revealed them unto babes: even so, Father; for so it seemed
good in Thy sight.”
The honored of the world, the so-called great and wise men,
could not comprehend the character of Christ. But to fishermen and
publicans it had been given to see the Invisible. From time to time,
as they surrendered to the Holy Spirit’s power, the disciples’ minds
were illuminated. They realized that the mighty God, clad in the
garb of humanity, was among them. Often as He had presented the
Old Testament Scriptures, and showed their application to Himself,
they had been lifted into a heavenly atmosphere. They had a clearer
understanding than the original writers themselves. Hereafter they
would read the Old Testament Scriptures as a new revelation from
God. They beheld Him “whom the world cannot receive, because it
seeth Him not, neither knoweth Him.”
John 14:17
.
The only way in which we can gain a more perfect apprehension
of truth is by keeping the heart tender and subdued by the Spirit
of Christ. Human science is too limited to comprehend the plan
of redemption. Philosophy cannot explain it. But the science of