The New Life

The Leading of the Spirit,
ing :
it is to the obedient that the full blessing of the
Spirit is promised.^
Young Christian, know that you are a temple of the
Spirit, and that it is only through the daily leading
of the Spirit that you can walk as a child of God,
with the witness that you are pleasing the Father.
Precious Saviour, imprint this lesson deeply on my
mind. The Holy Spirit is in me. His leading is
every day and everywhere indispensable for me. I
cannot hear His voice in the word when I do not wait
silently upon Him. lyord, let a holy circumspectness
keep watch over me, that I may always walk as a
pupil of the Spirit. Amen.
1. It is often asked: How do I know that I shall continue
standing, that I shall be kept, that I shall increase ? The question
dishonors the Holy Spirit—is the token that you do not
know Him or do not trust Him. The question indicates that
you are seeking the secret of strength for perseverance in yourself,
and not in the Holy Spirit, your heavenly Guide.
2. As God sees to it, that every moment there is air for me to
"breathe, so shall the Holy Spirit unceasingly maintain life in
the hidden depths of my soul. He will not break off His own
w^ork.
3. From the time that we receive the Holy Spirit, we have
nothing to do but to honor His work : to keep our hands ofi
from it, and to trust Him, and to let Him work.
4. The beginning and the end of the work of the Spirit is to
reveal Jesus to me, and to cause me to abide in Him. As soon
as I would fain look after the work of the Spirit in me, I hinder
Him : He cannot work when I am not willing to look upon
Jesus.
J
John xiv. 15, i6 ; Acts v. 32.
Ill