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- OTHERS CAN .. BUT YOU CAN'T
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- . If God has called you to be really like Jesus, He will draw you
- into a life of crucifixion and humility, and put upon you such demands
- of obedience, that you will not be able to follow other people, or
- measure yourself by other Christians, and in many ways He will seem to
- let other good people do things which He will not let you do.
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- . Other Christians and ministers who seem very religious and
- useful, may push themselves, pull wires, and work schemes to carry out
- their plans, but you cannot do it; and if you attempt it, you will
- meet with such failure and rebuke from the Lord as to make you sorely
- penitent.
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- . Others may boast of themselves, of their work, of their success,
- of their writings, but the Holy Spirit will not allow you to do any
- such thing, and if you begin it, He will lead you into some deep
- mortification that will make you despise yourself and all your good
- works.
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- . Others may be allowed to succeed in making money, or may have a
- legacy left to them, but it is likely God will keep you poor, because
- He wants you to have something far better than gold, namely a helpless
- dependence on Him, that He may have the privilege of supplying your
- needs day by day out of an unseen treasury.
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- . The Lord may let others be honored and put forward, and keep you
- hidden in obscurity, because He wants you to produce some choice,
- fragrant fruit for His coming glory, which can only be produced in the
- shade. He may let others be great, but keep you small. He may let
- others do a work for Him and get the credit for it, but He will make
- you work and toil on without knowing how much you are doing; and then
- to make your work still more precious, He may let others get credit
- for the work you have done, and thus make your reward ten times
- greater when Jesus comes.
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- . The Holy Spirit will put a strict watch over you, with a jealous
- love, and will rebuke you for little words and feelings, or wasting
- your time, which other Christians never seem to get distressed over.
- So make up your mind that God is an infinite Sovereign, and has a
- right to do as He pleases with His own. He may not explain to you a
- thousand things which puzzle your reason in His dealings with you, but
- if you absolutely sell yourself to be His love slave, He will wrap you
- in a jealous love, and bestow upon you many blessings which come only
- to those who are in the inner circle.
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- . Settle it forever, then, that you are to deal directly with the
- Holy Spirit, and that He is to have the privilege of tying your
- tongue, or chaining your hand, or closing your eyes, in ways that He
- does not seem to use with others. Now when you are so possessed with
- the living God that you are, in your secret heart, pleased and
- delighted over this peculiar, personal, private, jealous guardianship
- and management of the Holy Spirit over your life, you will have found
- the vestibule of heaven.
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- G. D. Watson, in Living Words
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