One of the most damaging things in the realm of God's work, a thing which eventually leads to shame and confusion and much sorrow, is Natural Soul Force projected by strong-willed, determined, aggressive Christians who have not come to a spiritual state where they are able to discriminate between stubborn indomitableness, personal determination and resolution, and which is altogether another thing: spiritual grace in endurance, perseverance, and Divine in-strengthening. The Lord has often to break the former to make place for the latter.
Do not talk about Paul's wonderful will to go through. Let Paul talk to you about the Lord's wonderful grace to continue.
Whenever a man or a woman really recognizing the truth that Calvary means the end of "I" commits himself or herself to the Lord to work it out, the flame of the sword will come round to the point where that "flesh" would seek to enter into the realm where the first Adam no longer has any standing.
The features of a personal
strength of will are hardness, coldness, death, resentment of
interference, suspicion of rivals, intolerance of obstructers, detachment, independence, secretiveness, heat, etc.
While spiritual
strength is always marked by love, warmth, life, fellowship, openness,
confidence, and trust in the Lord.... At the end, in the Revelation, the
dragon, the whole power of Satan is overthrown by the Lamb.
The Lamb is
the synonym for weakness and yieldingness. If the weakness of God can
do this mighty destruction, what can His strength not do?
Paul says of
Christ that "He was crucified through weakness," and, he adds, "we also
are weak with Him." Yes, but he also says, "by the Cross He triumphed."
Triumphed through weakness!
~T. Austin Sparks~
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