Joh 5:30 I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.
One
of the most difficult lessons that the Lord's children have to learn is
how to let go to God. Even in a matter that is right and in the purpose
of God, there has to be the lessons which Abraham had to learn through
Isaac.
It is not in our personal clinging to a God-given thing,
whether it be a promise or a possession, but faith's restful and
fear-free holding on to the Lord Himself.
If we had a thing from the
Lord Himself we can rest assured that what He gives He will not take
again without some larger purpose in view; and on the other hand, none
can take from us what He has determined for us. But there are many
dangers which arise from our own will in relation to a Divine gift or
purpose.
The
first is of making that thing ours instead of holding it in and for the
Lord. This leads to fierceness and personal uprisings. Then jealousy
will not be long in showing its ugly head, and jealousy with its twin –
suspicion – soon destroy fellowship and spontaneity of communion.
Does
not jealousy declare most loudly the fact of personal possession,
personal interest?
If we realized how privileged we are to have even a
very small part in the things of God, and how it is all of His Grace,
surely we should be very grateful that we could just have the remotest
connection with Him.
Then further, when we hold things received or as
promised or believed to be for us as only unto the Lord, in restful
trust, we make it possible for the Lord to save us from being mistaken
in the matter.
It is not an unusual thing for a child of God to come to
see that a thing which he or she most strongly believed to be God's will
or way for them was not so, and it had to be surrendered.
If there was
any personal element of will in it the experience has proved terrible,
and has left works of bitterness and mistrust.
Yet once again, a strong
personal mind and will in relation to things of God too often makes us a
law unto ourselves. That is, we get into an attitude which implies that
we only know the will of God in the matter. We do not trust that
others also may be led of the Lord in this thing, and so the
corporateness of guidance so necessary to the house of God is destroyed
or paralyzed.
~T. Austin Sparks~
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