We must surrender our whole being to Christ Jesus, and cease to live any longer in ourselves, that He may become our life; that being dead, "our life may be hid with Christ in God."
Here it is that the Spirit teaches us all truth; for all truth is eminently contained in this sacrifice of love, where the soul strips itself of every thing to present it to God.
We have communion in Christ's sufferings as we die with Him unto self, and rise with Him to our proper life—the life of self-surrender to the will of God.
"Cheerfully and gratefully I lay myself and all I am or own at the feet of Him who redeemed me with His precious blood, engaging to follow Him, bearing the cross He lays upon me." This is the least I can do, and I do it while my heart lies broken and bleeding at His feet.
I have just put my soul as a blank into the hand of Jesus, my Redeemer, and desired Him to write on it what He pleases; I know it will be His image.
O God, the creature knows not to what end Thou hast made Him; teach him, and write in the depths of his soul that the clay must suffer itself to be shaped at the will of the potter.
SIMPLICITY.
The greatest truths are the simplest,
And so are the greatest men.
