By Hannah Whitall Smith
Oneness with Christ must, in the very nature of things, consist in a Christ-like life and character.
If our religion is really our life, and not merely something extraneous tacked on to our life, it must necessarily go into everything in which we live.
We are predestined to be ‘conformed to the image’ of God’s Son. This means, of course, not a likeness of bodily presence, but a likeness of character and nature. It means a similarity of thought, of feeling, of desire, of loves, of hates.
All discouragement is from the devil, and I wish every Christian would just take this as a pocket-piece, and never forget it.
You have trusted Him as your dying Saviour, now trust Him as your living Saviour. Just as much as He came to deliver you from future punishment, did He also come to deliver you from present bondage.
God’s invariable rule is faith first and feeling second, in everything.
This blessed life must not be looked upon in any sense as an attainment but as an obtainment.
The redemption accomplished for us by our Lord Jesus Christ on the cross at Calvary is a redemption from the power of sin as well as from its guilt, and that He is able to save to the uttermost all who come unto God by Him.
Circumstances make men kings in the outward life, but in this hidden life men become kings over circumstances.
It means to have no life but His life, to have no will but His will, to have no interests but His interests, to share His riches, to enter into His joys, to partake of His sorrows, to manifest His life, to have the same mind as He had.
The essential thing is to get within you the growing life, and then you cannot help but grow. And this life is the life hid with Christ in God, the wonderful divine life of an indwelling Holy Ghost.
One of the most fatal things in the life of faith is discouragement. One of the most helpful is cheerfulness.
His creative power is expressed differently in each one of us. And in the individual ‘make-up’ which sometimes so troubles us, there is a manifestation of this power.
The secret of Christ’s life was the pouring out of Himself for others; and if we are like Him, this will be the secret of our lives also.
Give yourself to the Lord definitely and fully, according to your present light, asking the Holy Spirit to show you all that is contrary to God.
God’s promise is, that He will work in us to will as well as to do of His good pleasure. This, of course, means that He will take possession of our will, and work it for us.
It is a life and walk of faith we have entered upon, and if we fail in it our only recovery must lie in an increase of faith, not in a lessening of it.
The will is like a wise mother in a nursery; the feelings are like a set of clamoring, crying children.
God, the Almighty God, the Creator of Heaven and earth, is not a far-off Deity.
Earth’s chariots are always visible, but God’s chariots are invisible.
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