| THE LEADING OF THE SPIRIT - by Charles Hadden Spurgeon |
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"I will ask the Father,
"...the Spirit of truth.
"But the Counselor,
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TEACH ME to do Thy
Will, i.e. throw the responsibility of your life back on God. The one important
thing for you to be absolutely sure about is that you desire, at all costs, to
do God's Will. If you do not so desire, at least you must be willing to be made
willing. Cast on God this burden of making you willing, and believe that He
undertakes it.
"Thy Spirit is good." There is our only hope. If it were not for the infinite goodness, the patient gentleness, the loving forbearance of the Holy Spirit, we could have no chance, for nothing but infinite Goodness could bear with our frailties and backslidings, our lapses into coldness and indifference, our perverseness and obstinacy. But because God's Spirit is good, we may reckon on Him pervading us with His holy influence till our evil nature is overcome by His goodness, and we also in our measure become good. It is said of Barnabas that he was a "good man," because he was full of the Holy Ghost and of faith. "Lead me." The
Psalmist's prayer is--Teach me, lead me, quicken me. Let us make this prayer
our own. What better guarantee of being led aright than for us to yield
ourselves to our gentle gracious Guide. We are like little children that
require to be led, as the mother or nurse takes the child by the hand and leads
him to the school-house, and fetches him again. Some of us are blind, and need
a kindly hand to guide us as we grope in the dark.
AMEN. |