When we know that it is God who works in is to will and to do of His good pleasure, ought there not to be fear and trembling, and a solemn feeling-not on the ground of what we are, but of what God is doing in us? If He has taken me up for Christ; and is blessing me and working in me, to make use like Christ, there ought to be a very practical feeling in my soul as to walk.
The life of a believer is inseparable from the person of our Lord Jesus Christ. Among all the glories and marvels of that blessed One, there is nothing more precious than that He is the life-giver, and is Himself the life. If you have not got Christ as your life-giver, you have not the rest and peace which are inseparable from that life. The life so given bears the impress of Him. The living water in the heart of a poor sinner bubbles up to the spring from whence it came. Who can let go his hold of the things that are clamoring in our hearts down here? Who can rise above it all as a secondary thing but the one who knows Christ as a life-giver?