Am I individually identified with the energy of God's hand? The God who took me clean out of the world-like a root transplanted and made to grow -and who is going on meaning to present me without spot. The God whose hand, if I will seek my own way, will not let me go. I may get hard rubs, and the cutting word, "all seek their own," but it is my blessing to know that I am identified with God's work, and God's plans in connection with Christ: God saying, "I have arranged all for the day of His bridal," and that I am to be in my own special place there, His hand. moving me on to it. Am I moving with Him? Is the bright and Morning Star fixing my eye and guiding me, or some circumstance clown here? God is working to make me give up all that comes into collision with His Spirit-nay, striking with the rod all that is not going with Him. The God who formed in our hearts the desire to be with Christ, is the God who is leading us on. God with us and for us, the certainty of success. Are you tasting in your souls the joy of association with God?
Have not your hearts known the pleasure of having something to lean on as a sort of Rock? How little we think that we have GOD to lean on -a God in heaven!