Others May, You Cannot

OTHERS MAY; YOU CANNOT
-Author Unknown.

IF God has called you to be really like Jesus He will draw you into
a life of crucifixion and humility, and put upon you such demands
of obedience, that you will not be able to follow other people, or
measure yourself by other Christians, and in many ways He will
seem to let other people do things which He will not let you do.

Other Christians and ministers who seem very religious and useful,
may push themselves, pull wires, and work schemes to carry out
their plans, but you cannot do it, and if you attempt it, you will
meet with such failure and rebuke from the Lord as to make you
sorely penitent.

Others may boast of themselves, of their work, of their successes,
of their writings, but the Holy Spirit will not allow you to do any
such thing, and if you begin it, He will lead you into some deep
mortification that will make you despise yourself and all your good works.

Others may be allowed to succeed in making money, or may have
a legacy left to them, but it is likely God will keep you poor,
because He wants you to have something far better than gold,
namely, a helpless dependence upon Him, that He may have the
privilege of supplying your needs day by day out of an unseen treasury.

The Lord may let others be honored and put forward, and keep
you hidden in obscurity, because He wants to produce some
choice fragrant fruit for His coming glory, which can only be
produced in the shade.  He may let others be great, but keep you
small.  He may let others do a work for Him and get the credit for
it, but He will make you work and toil on without knowing how
much you are doing; and then to make your work still more
precious He may let others get credit for the work which you have
done, and thus make YOUR REWARD TEN Times GREATER
When JESUS COMES.

The Holy Spirit will put a strict watch over you, with a jealous love,
and will rebuke you for little words and feelings or for wasting your
time, which other Christians never feel distressed over.  SO make
up your mind that God is an Infinitely Sovereign Being, and has a
right to do as He pleases with His own.  He may not explain to
you a thousand things which puzzle your reason in His dealings
with you, but if you absolutely sell yourself to be His love slave,
He will wrap you up in Jealous Love, and bestow upon you many
blessings which come only to those who are in the inner circle.

Settle it forever, then that you are to DEAL DIRECTLY WITH
THE HOLY SPIRIT, and that He is to have the privilege of tying
your tongue, or chaining your hand, or closing your eyes, in ways
that He does not seem to use with others.  Now, when you are
so possessed with the living God that you are, in your secret
heart, pleased and delighted over this PECULIAR, PERSONAL,
PRIVATE, JEALOUS GUARDIANSHIP and MANAGEMENT OF
the HOLY SPIRIT OVER YOUR LIFE, then you will have found
the vestibule of Heaven.

WHEN YOU ARE forgotten, neglected, or purposefully set at
naught, and you smile inwardly, glorying in the insult or the
oversight, because thereby you are counted worthy to suffer with
Christ, THAT IS VICTORY.

WHEN YOUR GOOD is evil spoken of, when your wishes are
crossed, when your taste is offended, when your advise is
disregarded, when your opinions are ridiculed, and you take it
all in patient, loving silence, THAT IS VICTORY.

WHEN YOU ARE content with any food, raiment, climate,
society, solitude,or any interruption by the will of God, THAT
IS VICTORY.

Peace Be Still

Peace Be Still

Why do you look at the confusion around you says the Lord, when you know that none of it will bring you peace? For here I stand in the eye of the storm calling you to me to find your rest. My child, you do not have the strength or the ability to calm the storm around you. You can only come into my presence and then allow me to bring peace to the storm.

Consider my disciples who tried to outrun the storm and to fight it with all the knowledge they knew about sailing. However it was only when they came to me and I stood up on their behalf, did the storm calm down. And so as you look at your life and you see these things that are quickly getting out of control, stop struggling with them in your natural strength!

Stop trying to fight these things with your works and abilities. Run to me instead! Let me fight the storm on your behalf. Let me cover you with my hand and bring the protection that you need. Do you not see that I desire to cover and protect you? It was not me that has brought these things into your life. It was not me that wanted to see you suffer or struggle. In fact many of these things you called upon yourself. However I am not punishing you child! Instead I want to help you. I want to give you the strength that you need to stand up again.

I want to bring the storm to a place of stillness and I want to take you across this phase of your life and onto solid ground again. Will you trust me child? Will you take my hand? Come now and rest with me and then watch as I do in an instant, what you have struggled against for so long, says the Lord.