His commandments.
Looking into the Father's face, and into the Saviour's heart, the soul
can say, "This is life eternal, to know Thee the only true God, and
Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent." And with the knowledge there comes
the aspiration that we, "being rooted and grounded in love, may be able
to comprehend with all saints," and to beseech for all souls, "the
breadth, and length, and depth, and height, and to know the love of
Christ, which passeth knowledge." And again it is said, "Ye have an
anointing from the Holy One, and ye know all things." Is this a little
knowledge? All things are possible to you in possession and in
perception.

(3) How little is our _will-power_. We often want to do right, and the
force of habits or of grooves is too strong for us. We have not enough
momentum to carry us out or enough moral force to deny the past and to
assert the future. Constantly rises up in judgment the days that have
been; and when looking at the blessed vision of God of the days that
shall be, the past rises up and says, "It is not for you"; and we have
not power to deny this, and to believe in God that He will work all the
good pleasure of His will in us. It seems almost impossible for us
ever to become saints. When we get to understand a little about
righteousness and holiness, we do feel utterly inadequate to choose
such a righteousness, or to compel ourselves to live out such a
holiness.

The only remedy is the Divine enlargement of heart which comes from the
visitation of the Spirit. We carry our brokenness to God; we put our
helpless will at His feet, and He energises it, and sends us back from
the altar-steps, or from the glory where we have met with Him, able to
say, "I _delight_ to do _Thy_ will, O my God."

And although for each one of us there will be a Gethsemane, "a place of
tears," as there was for the Master, yet we shall come through with our
will unbroken, because it will be the will of God strong within us.

(4) How small is our capacity for loving or forgiving. Many think they
have capacity for an infinite love, and would be able to exhibit it if
they could find a worthy object. But I believe our love is a strictly
measurable quantity, and dependent on the state of grace we are in.
Only those who have the Spirit within them, energising them, can truly
love at all. Again, we fall at the Lord's feet, and tell Him we have
no power even to be civil to some people, much less to love them