Where our individual desire dies and sanctified surrender lives.
One of the greatest hindrances in coming to Jesus is the excuse of our
own individual temperament. We make our temperament and our natural
desires barriers to coming to Jesus. Yet the first thing we realize when
we do come to Jesus is that He pays no attention whatsoever to our
natural desires. We have the idea that we can dedicate our gifts to God.
However, you cannot dedicate what is not yours. There is actually only
one thing you can dedicate to God, and that is your right to yourself
(see Romans 12:1).
If you will give God your right to yourself, He will make a holy
experiment out of you— and His experiments always succeed. The one true
mark of a saint of God is the inner creativity that flows from being
totally surrendered to Jesus Christ. In the life of a saint there is
this amazing Well, which is a continual Source of original life. The
Spirit of God is a Well of water springing up perpetually fresh. A saint
realizes that it is God who engineers his circumstances; consequently
there are no complaints, only unrestrained surrender to Jesus. Never try
to make your experience a principle for others, but allow God to be as
creative and original with others as He is with you.
If you abandon everything to Jesus, and come when He says, “Come,”
then He will continue to say, “Come,” through you. You will go out into
the world reproducing the echo of Christ’s “Come.” That is the result in
every soul who has abandoned all and come to Jesus.
Have I come to Him? Will I come now?
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