"In the secret of His pavilion He hideth me." God
Himself will take you up, and will keep you there, so that all your work
shall be done in God. Beloved, wait continually upon God. You can not do
this unless you are in His presence. You must live in His presence. Then
the blessed habit of waiting upon God will be learned. The real difficulty
of getting to the point of real waiting upon God, is because most
Christians have not sought to realize the nearness of God, and to give God
the first place. But let us strive after this, let us trust God to give it
to us by His grace, let us wait on God all the day. "My eyes," says one,
"are ever towards Thee." Wait upon God for guidance, and God, if you wait
much upon Him, will lead you up into new power for His service, into new
gladness in His fellowship. He will lead you out into a larger trust in
Him; He will prepare you to expect new things from Him. Beloved, there
is no knowing what God will do for a man who is utterly given up to Him.
Praise His name! Let each one of us say, "May my life be to live and die,
to labor and to pray continually for this one thing: that in me, and around
me, and in the church; that throughout the world '_God may be all in
all_.'" A little seed is the beginning of a great tree. A mustard seed
becomes a tree in which the birds of the air can nestle. That great day of
which the text speaks, when Christ Himself shall be subject to the Father,
and deliver up the Kingdom to the Father, and God shall be all in all--that
is the great tree of the Kingdom of God reaching its perfect consummation
and glory. Oh, let us take the seed of that glory into our hearts, and let
us bow in lowly surrender and submission, and say, "Amen, Lord; this be my
one thought. This be my life--to speak and to work, to pray and to exist
only that others may be brought to know Him too. This be my life--to yield
myself to the unutterable yearnings of the Holy Spirit, that I may not
rest, but ever keep my eye on that day--the day of glory, when in very deed
God shall be all in all."
God help every one of us. God help us all to yield ourselves to Him, and to
Christ, and to make it our every-day life; for His name's sake. Amen.
THE END.
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