reeps right to the very edges of the Highway, but
on the Highway itself all is light. Behind us is the Cross, no longer
dark and forbidding, but radiant and glowing, and we no longer see
Jesus stretched across its arms, but walking the Highway overflowing
with resurrection life. In His Hands He carries a pitcher with the
Water of Life. He comes right up to us and asks us to hold out our
hearts, and just as if we were handing Him a cup, we present to Him
our empty hearts. He looks inside--a painful scrutiny--and where He
sees we have allowed His Blood to cleanse them, He fills them with
the Water of Life. So we go on our way rejoicing and praising God and
overflowing with His new life. This is revival. You and I full of the
Holy Spirit all the time, loving others and concerned for their
salvation. No struggling, no tarrying. Just simply giving Him each
sin to cleanse in His precious Blood and accepting from His hands the
free gift of His Fulness, and then allowing Him to do the work
through us. As we walk along with Him, He is always there continually
filling so that our cups continually overflow.

So the rest of our Christian life simply consists now of walking
along the Highway, with hearts overflowing, bowing the neck to His
will all the time, constantly trusting the Blood to cleanse us and
living in complete oneness with Jesus. There is nothing spectacular
about this life, no emotional experiences to sigh after and wait for.
It is just plain day to day living the life the Lord intended us to
live. This is real holiness.

Off the Highway.

But we may, and sometimes do, slip off the Highway, for it is narrow.
One little step aside and we are off the path and in darkness. It is
always because of a failure in obedience somewhere or a failure to be
weak enough to let God do all. Satan is always beside the road,
shouting at us, but he cannot touch us. But we can yield to his voice
by an act of will. This is the beginning of sin and slipping away
from Jesus. Sometimes we find ourselves stiffening our necks to
someone, sometimes to God Himself. Sometimes jealousy or resentment
assails us. Immediately we are over the side, for nothing unclean can
walk the Highway. Our cup is dirtied and ceases to overflow and we
lose our peace with God. If we do not come back to the Highway at
once, we shall go further down the side. We must get back. How? The
first thing to do is to ask God to show what caused us to slip off;
and He wi