Relevant Words from Other People
"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is really a large matter- it's the difference between a lightning bug and the lightning." -Mark Twain
Welcome to resistance
The tension is here
Between who you are and who you could be
Between how it is and how it should be
From Kept for the Master...I could post the whole first chapter that I read today! Amazing book based upon the song "Take my Life and Let it Be."
"Take my life!" We have said it or sung it before the Lord, it may be many times; but if it were only once whispered in His ear with full purpose of heart, should we not believe that He heard it? And if we know that He heard it, should be not believe that He has answered it, and fulfilled this, our heart's desire? For with Him hearing means heeding.
Have we not been wronging His faithfulness all this time by practically, even if
unconsciously, doubting whether the prayer ever really reach Him? And if so, is it
any wonder that we have not realized all the power and joy of full consecration? By some means or other He has to teach us to trust implicitly at every step of the way. And so, if we did not really trust in this matter, He has had to let us find out our want of trust by withholding the sensible part of the blessing, and thus stirring us up to find out why it is withheld.
Consecration is not so much a step as a course; not so much an act, as a position to which a course of action inseparably belongs. In so fas as it is a course and a position, there must naturally be a definite moment when that entrance is made. That is when we say, "take"' but we do not want to do on taking a first step over and over again. What we want now is to be maintained in that position, and to fulfill that course. So let us go on to another prayer. Having already said, "Take my life, for I cannot give it to Thee," let us now say, with deepening conviction, that without Christ we really can do nothing,--"Keep my life, for I cannot keep it for Thee."
Have we not been wronging His faithfulness all this time by practically, even if
unconsciously, doubting whether the prayer ever really reach Him? And if so, is it
any wonder that we have not realized all the power and joy of full consecration? By some means or other He has to teach us to trust implicitly at every step of the way. And so, if we did not really trust in this matter, He has had to let us find out our want of trust by withholding the sensible part of the blessing, and thus stirring us up to find out why it is withheld.
Consecration is not so much a step as a course; not so much an act, as a position to which a course of action inseparably belongs. In so fas as it is a course and a position, there must naturally be a definite moment when that entrance is made. That is when we say, "take"' but we do not want to do on taking a first step over and over again. What we want now is to be maintained in that position, and to fulfill that course. So let us go on to another prayer. Having already said, "Take my life, for I cannot give it to Thee," let us now say, with deepening conviction, that without Christ we really can do nothing,--"Keep my life, for I cannot keep it for Thee."
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