May 29, 2020-Chapter 8: "Kept By The Power of God"- Question: 4

QUESTION: 4

What is it that we must learn to understand in ourselves if we truly want to have “the higher life”? What “position” in our hearts must we take before our God and Father to live a life of true rest and trust in Him? (Page 85)

ANSWER To Question 4 (As stated by the Author)

Ah, yes, God will have to bring us very low down; there will have to come upon us a sense of emptiness and despair and nothingness. It is when we sink down in utter helplessness that the everlasting God will reveal Himself in His power, and that our hearts will learn to trust God alone.

Many a one says: " I believe what you say, but there is one difficulty. If my trust were perfect and always abiding, all would come right, for I know God will honor trust. But how am I to get that trust?"

My answer is: "By the death of self. The great hindrance to trust is self-effort. So long as you have got your own wisdom and thoughts and strength, you cannot fully trust God. But when God breaks you down, when everything begins to grow dim before your eyes, and you see that you understand nothing, then God is coming near, and if you will bow down in nothingness and wait upon God, He will become all."

Personal Comment:

Amen! I couldn't have said it any better. We must come to the end of self and our self-effort in everything we do, and fully surrender all to our God!