\nLillias Trotter:
\n\u201cThe water begins by grooving that trench at the lowest
\nlevel it can find, and it seeks all the time to make that level
\nlower still, carving for itself at last a veritable ravine till it has
\nreached the mission that was the meaning of the lonely path,
\nof the stripping bare of the ever-deepening emptiness. For the
\nlast sweep of its ravine has sent it forth into the glory of its
\nmission. Away beyond stretched thousands upon thousands
\nof palm trees, waiting for the treasure that the water course has
\nbrought down. The power of the water and the laying low of
\nthe channel\u2014between them they have opened this great gateway.
\n\u2018Thou didst cleave the earth with Thy rivers.\u2019
\n\u201cSo with ourselves, instead of a life of conscious power,
\nours will probably, if He is going to do any deep work in us, be
\na path of humiliation, of stripping, of emptiness, where no
\nflesh may glory in His presence.
\n\u201cThe way goes downward and downward into the valley
\nof humiliation as the self-life stands gradually revealed by
\nGod\u2019s presence! On and on, instead of the sense of power,
\nthere comes only more and more the overwhelming sense of
\ninsufficiency\u2014for in the spiritual, as in the natural world, if
\nyou want to seek water, look in the very lowest place that you
\ncan find. Whatever the ministry may be, it is the same story,
\nthe stream-bed going lower and lower, with nothing to glory
\nin but the wonderful glory of bearing the life-giving water.
\n\u2018Death worketh in us, but life in you,\u2019 the water courses say.
\n\u201cYes, the way \u2018goes downward and downward,\u2019 while
\nnatural man\u2019s whole tendency is to raise himself in arrogant
\npride.\u201d (p. 34).<\/p>\n
Frederic Lucian Hosner:
\n\u201c By failure and defeat made wise,
\nWe come to know, at length,
\nWhat strength within our weakness lies,
\nWhat weakness in our strength.
\nWhat inward peace is born of strife;
\nWhat power of being spent;
\nWhat wings unto our upward life
\nIs noble discontent.
\nO Lord, we need Thy shaming look
\nThat burns all low desire;
\nThe discipline of Thy rebuke
\nShall be refining fire!\u201d
\n\u2014 (p. 30)<\/p>\n
Alan Redpath:
\nI tell you, my friend, if you are a Christian leader, or in the
\npulpit, or singing, or teaching a Sunday School class, or if you
\nare doing anything for the Lord\u2014it isn\u2019t the big shot, the big
\nman that God wants\u2014it\u2019s the broken man. God uses the man
\nwhom He has crushed until he is nothing but a door mat for
\npeople to walk on in order that they might come to Jesus. . . .
\nI honestly believe that one of the curses of twentieth
\ncentury evangelical Christianity is that we are not destitute.
\nWe\u2019ve become desperately self-sufficient. Indeed, so great is
\nthe craze for higher education that we train young people
\ntoday to be self-sufficient, to major in the things in which they
\nwill succeed\u2014to be a big shot.
\nI\u2019m not saying anything about education. Get the very
\nbest you can, but I want to remind you of what Paul said about
\nself-sufficiency. Paul was a man of outstanding education, the
\nbrilliant theologian of his day, and he said, \u201cOur sufficiency is
\nof God.\u201d Two thousand years have gone by and the situation
\nis no different. Our sufficiency, our help, our hope is not in
\nprograms, not in a theological degree\u2014not in anything but the
\nLord! (p. 38).
\nRoyal Insignia is published by Harvey Christian Publishers and is available in their Online Christian Bookstore.<\/p>\n
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