To him who overcomes I will give the
privilege of sitting down with Me on My throne, as I also have overcome and
have sat down with My Father on His throne (Revelation 3:21).
We all have resurrection Life if we are joined to
Christ as Resurrection, but there is something more than that; there is
resurrection power, which carries us eventually (if it has its full outworking)
to the Throne, and not all will come to the Throne. It is: “to him that
overcomes.” Caleb, like Paul, and Paul, like Caleb, stood against the more
general course of things amongst the Lord’s people. The majority were content
with going so far as to the inheritance, possessing so much, and there staying
and settling down. An unfinished course, a curtailed spiritual advance, an
accepting of something less than what God had appointed and intended. The
majority took that course, but Caleb was never content and he stood against the
majority just as he had always stood against a majority that did not represent
God’s full mind....
Spiritual leadership always involves loneliness.
That is the cost of it. The overcomers will always be, so far as the larger
Christian world is concerned, a lonely company, having to go on, with few able
to follow. Caleb could not accept the popular voice, his heart was too set upon
the Lord. He wholly followed the Lord, not the popular and general standard of
Christian life. We may say that Caleb was the very embodiment of all that God
meant the whole people to be. When you see Caleb you see what God wished all
Israel to be, but all Israel did not come to the standard of Caleb. But the
Lord gets in a Caleb the satisfaction of His heart. The Lord realizes His full
thought in a Caleb, in the same way as He does in a Paul.
By T. Austin-Sparks from: Filled Unto All
the Fullness of God - Chapter 14
This photograph is by Kristopher Rowe.
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