If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must
deny himself and
take up his cross and
follow Me.
for whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but
whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.
Matthew 16.24-5
if God has called you to be truly like Jesus in all your spirit,
he will draw you into a life of crucifixion and humility.
he will put on you such demands of obedience that you will not be allowed to followotherChristians.
in many ways, he seems to let other good people do things which He ill not let you do.
others who seem to be very religious and useful may
push themselves,
pull wires and
scheme to carry out their plans, but
you cannot.
if you attempt it, you will meet with such failure and rebuke from the Lord
as to make you sorely penitent.
others can brag bout themselves,
their work,
their successes,
their writings,
but the Holy spirit will not allow you to do any such thing.
if you begin to do so,
he will lead you int some deep mortification
that will make you despise yourself and all your good works.
others will be allowed to succeed in making great sums of money
or having a legacy left to them
or in having luxuries,
but god may supply you only on a day-to-day basis,
because he wants you to have something far better than gold,
a helpless dependence on Him and His unseen treasury.
the Lord may let others be honored and put forward
while keepiing you hidden in obscurity
because he wants you to have something far better than gold,
a helpless dependence on Him and and His unseen treasury.
the Lord may let others be honored and put forward
while keeping 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.
God may let others be great,
but keep you small.
he will let others do a work for Him and get the credit,
but He will make you work and toil without knowing how much you are doing.
then, to make your work still more precious, he will let others get the credit
for work which you have done.
this to teach you the message of the Cross, humility and
something of the value of being cloaked with His nature.
the Holy Spirit will put a strict watch on you and
with a jealous love rebuke you for
careless words and feelings or for
wasting your time,
which other Christians never seem distressed over.
so MAKE UP YOUR MIND that
God is an infinite sovereign and
has the right to do as he pleases with His own and that
he may not explain to you 1000 things which may puzzle your reason
in His dealings with you.
God will take you at your word,
IF YOU ABSOLUTELY SELL ;YOURSELF TO BE HIS SLAVE,
He will wrap you up in a jealous love and
let other people say and do many things that you cannot.
SETTLE IT FOREVER;
you are to deal directly with the Holy Spirit,
He is to have the privilege of
tying your tongue or
chaining you hand or
closing your eyes in ways which others are not dealt with.
however, know this great secret of the Kingdom:
when you are so completely 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,
you will have found the vestibule of heaven,
the high calling of God.
Watson was a Wesleyan Methodist minister and evangelist based in Los Angles. his evangelistic campaigns took him to England, the West Indies, New Zealand, Australia, Japan and Korea. he also wrote several books.
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