March
23
Christ
is all, and in all (Colossians 3:11).
Beloved, the Cross was
intended only to make the Lord Jesus all, and in all, for us; and is it not
true that, because of the way that the Lord has dealt with us, the way in which
He has applied the Cross, planting us into that death and burial, we know Him
in a way in which we never knew Him before? Is it not by that way that He has
become what He is to us, ever more and more dear to our hearts? The increase of
the Lord Jesus in and to us is by the way of the Cross. We know quite well that
our chief enemy is ourselves, our flesh. This flesh gives us no rest, no peace,
no satisfaction; we have no joy in it. It obsesses, engrosses, and constantly
struts across our path to rob us of the very joy of living. What is to be done
with it? Well, in and by the Cross we are delivered from ourselves; not only
from our sins, but from ourselves; and being delivered from ourselves we are
delivered into Christ, and Christ becomes far more than we.
It is a painful process,
but it is a blessed issue; and those amongst us who may have had the greatest
agony along this line would, I believe, testify that what it has brought to us
of the knowledge and riches of the Lord Jesus has made all the suffering
worthwhile. So the work of the Lord for us and the work of the Lord in us, by
the Cross, is only intended in the Divine thought to make room for the Lord
Jesus.
By T. Austin-Sparks from: Christ - All, and In
All
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