EMPTY.

Some people have yet one thing to learn: the more we have of the Christ in us, the more simple and empty we seem, only when He would speak and work out through us.

In giving ourselves to “walk in the Spirit,” we are led to live out His life (that which is behind in His sufferings), and we soon become as “a root out of dry ground;” and when they look on us there is no beauty that they should desire us. It was so with Him. It is enough for the servant to be as his Master.

People often have the idea that we are something, as they hear that the Lord, at times, markedly works through us; and when they come to see or hear us, they are disappointed. They do not realize how we have prayed: “O, to be nothing, nothing.”

“I would rather be nothing, nothing,
That to Him be their voices raised,
Who alone is the Foundation of Blessing,
Who alone is meet to be praised.”

Here again we tread in Jesus’ footsteps: “From that time many went back, and walked no more with Him.” Again we are brought into great straits, and not able to give deliverance for ourselves, yet at the same time used for others. And some shake the head, and say, “Where is the Power?” Here again we come into deeper fellowship with Jesus: “He saved others, Himself He cannot save.” Glory be to God for taking us into this lowly walk with Jesus.

From the moment that we leave ourselves in God, for Christ to possess us, and to live out our lives, from that moment He comes to us in all that transpires, and makes all a good; and He would have us, “In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ, concerning you.” And “Blessed is whosoever shall not be offended in Me.”

            Mary H. Mossman.