"The human heart has no desires that God cannot satisfy. The Christian's greatest difficulty is to take literally the promises of the Savior. Said the Lord Jesus: "If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink." We are told to come to Him, not to some friend, not to some experience, not to some feeling or frame of mind. We are not even to come just to the Word of God; rather, we are to go through that Word to the person of the Lord Jesus Himself."
"To let my loving Savior work in me His will, my sanctification is what I would live for by His grace. Abiding, not striving nor struggling; looking off unto Him; trusting Him for present power; trusting Him to subdue all inward corruption; resting in the love of an almighty Savior, in the conscious joy of a complete salvation, a salvation "from all sin" (this is His Word); willing that His will should truly be supreme--this is not new, and yet 'tis new to me. I feel as though the first dawning of a glorious day had risen upon me. I hail it with trembling, yet with trust. I seem to have got to the edge only, but of a sea which is boundless; to have sipped only, but of that which fully satisfies. Christ literally all seems to me now the power, the only power for service; the only ground for unchanging joy. May He lead us into the realization of His unfathomable fullness." ~V. Edmond Raymond, They Found the Secret: J. Hudson Taylor
Right now I am reading an amazing book, They Found the Secret, by V. Edmond Raymond. As I read some of the testimonies of the men and woman in this book who have found the promise of life I am learning that the way to the Holy Spirit is by submission rather than striving and working. It is by faith.
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