The power, to walk in the eternal life given us is divine. There is not a struggle to give a thing up for Christ, without a power of joy flowing into the soul in letting it go for His sake; because you have got into communion with the divine nature. We do not expect to find a bag of gold in God's presence, but we look for the appearing and the kingdom, and if meantime we are accounted as the off-scouring of all things, we have the joy of communion with the divine nature. We have strength given us to break through everything: we are brought into an entirely new world by it.
I want to see saints with that steadfastness of soul, with that power of joy; not like Timothy with tears rolling down because of wilderness sorrow, but like Paul, putting everything right clown, in the power of joy.