Taught of God by His Good Spirit
"Thou
gavest also Thy
good Spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not Thy
manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst."
-NEHEMIAH
9:20 [KJV]
When
we are thoroughly emptied of ourselves—when our knowledge is shewn
to be ignorance, our wisdom folly, our righteousness filthy rags, and
our strength weakness—then we begin to long after the teachings of
the blessed Spirit. We must be purged and tried before we can value
and receive the treasures of grace. When we are well exercised and
tried in our souls, then we begin to long after the teachings of the
Holy Spirit, that He would shed abroad the love of God in our soul,
visit and guide us, overshadow us with His holy presence, and drop
into our hearts His secret unction. Before we are brought here, we
know not the personality of the Holy Ghost. We have no evidence in
our conscience that He is God; we cannot worship and adore Him as the
Third Person in the blessed Godhead. But when we are brought to this
spot, that we know nothing without His teaching, feel nothing without
His giving, and are nothing without His making—this makes us pant
and sigh after His teachings and leadings; and we are brought to wait
in the posture of holy adoration and still quietness for the dew and
unction of the Spirit to fall upon our conscience.
-Gospel
report by preacher J.C. Philpot (1802-1869 A.D.)
May
9th, EARS FROM HARVESTED SHEAVES
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