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\u201cOh, strait and lowly are the doors
\nBy which Christ comes to us;
\nWe bar the entrance gates of joy,
\nAnd when He finds them thus,
\nBy strange, small doors of woe and want,
\nOf trial and of pain,
\nHe enters in to share our lives
\nTo our eternal gain.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe narrow doors He brings us to,
\nThe little doors and low,
\nWhat large rooms they will open on,
\nIf we will only go:
\nThe strange, small doors of work and want,
\nStrait doors of grief and pain,
\nWhat riches they will lead us to!
\nWhat everlasting gain!\u201d Royal Insignia, p. 78
\nIn the next reading, \u201cThe Door of Destitution,\u201d there is a quotation along the same lines by Oswald Chambers, taken from his book, He Shall Glorify Me:
\n\u201cWe learn to welcome the patience of Jesus only when we get to the point of human destitution. It is not that God will not do anything for us until we get there, but that He cannot. God can do nothing for me if I am sufficient for myself. When we come to the place of destitution spiritually we find the Lord waiting, and saying, \u2018If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink.\u2019 There are hundreds at the place of destitution and they don\u2019t know what they want. If I have been obeying the command of Jesus to \u2018go and make disciples\u2019 I know what they want; they want Him. We are so interested in our own spiritual riches that souls are white unto harvest all around us and we don\u2019t reap one for Him.
\nSome men enter the Kingdom of Heaven through crushing, tragic, overwhelming conviction of sin, but they are not the greatest number; the greatest number enter the Kingdom along this line of spiritual destitution\u2014no power to lay hold of God, no power to do what I ought to do, utterly poverty-stricken.\u201d Royal Insignia, p. 69.<\/p>\n
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