Basic HTML Version
Vital Principles of Relationship
409
expect to receive the golden oil of goodness, patience, long-suffering,
gentleness, love.
Everyone is to keep himself separate from the world, which is
full of iniquity. We are not to walk with God for a time, and then
part from His company and walk in the sparks of our own kindling.
There must be a firm continuance, a perseverance in acts of faith. We
are to praise God; to show forth His glory in a righteous character.
No one of us will gain the victory without persevering, untiring
effort, proportionate to the value of the object which we seek, even
eternal life.
The dispensation in which we are now living is to be, to those
that ask, the dispensation of the Holy Spirit. Ask for His blessing. It
is time we were more intense in our devotion. To us is committed
the arduous, but happy, glorious work of revealing Christ to those
who are in darkness. We are called to proclaim the special truths for
[512]
this time. For all this the outpouring of the Spirit is essential. We
should pray for it. The Lord expects us to ask Him. We have not
been wholehearted in this work.
What can I say to my brethren in the name of the Lord? What
proportion of our efforts has been made in accordance with the light
the Lord has been pleased to give? We cannot depend upon form or
external machinery. What we need is the quickening influence of the
Holy Spirit of God. “Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit,
saith the Lord of hosts.” Pray without ceasing, and watch by working
in accordance with your prayers. As you pray, believe, trust in God.
It is the time of the latter rain, when the Lord will give largely of
His Spirit. Be fervent in prayer, and watch in the Spirit.
* * * * *
How shall we follow Him to learn of Him who is our Teacher?
We can search His word, and become acquainted with His life and
works. His words we are to receive as bread for our souls. In every
sphere where man shall be placed, the Lord Jesus has left us His
footprints. We do well to follow Him. The Spirit by which He spake,
we must cherish; we are to present the truth as it is in Jesus. We are
to follow Him especially in heart purity, in love. Self must be hid
with Christ in God; then when Christ, who is our life, shall appear,