January
26
In the wilderness the whole of our natural life
is brought out, and we come to know our weakness and emptiness; that we have
nothing. Thus it is that we now find everything in Christ and so can go over
and possess. What is the secret of possession, of coming into our inheritance?
It is that we have come to the place where all things are "in Christ"
and He is everything – our very Life and being. Our flesh is
cut off and we know as the deepest thing in our being, that unless God does
everything in us by His Spirit, all is of no value. We must come to an
end of our own working in order to come into His fullness. It is so
easy to sit down in our weakness and nurse ourselves, but the Lord says at that
point, "Arise and possess." Your inheritance is not here on earth, it
is in Christ in the heavenlies; not in yourselves, your fullness is in Him. It
is ever His Fullness over against your emptiness; His
Strength over against your weakness; your inheritance is all
He is, as typified to Israel by the land flowing with milk and honey.
Paul says of Timothy, "he worketh the work
of the Lord" (1 Cor. 16:10). There is to be an end of our works so far as
we are concerned, nothing of us, as out from ourselves; but God
says, in effect: "with your nothingness I will possess the heavens and the
earth." Oh, to be such a people, chastened and emptied of self, for the
Holy Spirit by His energies to display the moral glories of the Lord
Jesus in us and so through us. "To the intent that now unto
principalities and powers might be made known through the Church the manifold
wisdom of God" (Eph. 3:10,11). "That in the ages to come He might
show the exceeding riches of His grace... for we are His workmanship"
(Eph. 2:7,10).
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