The High Calling

I went home last weekend and my mom had me read this. It is just a reminder of the sacrifices that we as Christians must make to follow Christ, but that there is a great reward at the end of the journey if we endure. Jesus, let these words sink into the hearts of those who read them and may they be encouraged in their walk with You. Enjoy my friends.


The High Calling
If God has called you to be really like Jesus in all
Your spirit, he will draw you into a life of crucifixion
And humility, and put on you such demands of
Obedience the he will not allow you to follow
Other Christians, and in many ways he will seem to let
Other good people do things, which he will not let you
Do. Other Christians and ministers who seem very
Religious and useful may push themselves, pull wires
And work schemes to carry out their plans, but you
Cannot do it; and if you attempt it, you will meet
With such failure and rebuke from the Lord as to
Make you sorely penitent. Others can brag on
Themselves, on their work, on their success, on
Their writings, but the Holy Spirit will not allow
You to do any such thing, and if you begin it, he
Will lead you into some deep mortification that
Will make you despise yourself and all your good
Works. Others will be allowed to succeed in
Making great sums of money, or having a
Legacy left to them or in having luxuries, but
God may supply you daily because he wants
You to have something far better than gold,
And that is a helpless dependence on him that
He may have the privilege of providing your
Needs day by day out of the unseen treasury.
The Lord may let others be honored and put
Forward and keep you hid away in obscurity
Because he wants you to produce some choice,
Fragrant fruit for his coming glory, which can
Only be produced in the shade.
God will let others be great, but keep you small, he
Will let others do a work for him and get the credit
For it, but he will make you work and toil on without
Knowing how much you are doing; and then, to
Make your work still more precious, he will let
Others get the credit for the work which you have
Done; this will make your reward even greater
When Jesus comes. The Holy Spirit will put a
Strict watch on you with a jealous love, and
Will rebuke you for little words and feelings or
For wasting your time, which other Christians
Never seem distressed over. So make up your
Mind that God is an infinite Sovereign, and has a
Right to do as he pleases with his own, and he
Will not explain to you a thousand things which
May puzzle your reason in his dealings with you.
God will take you at your word; and if you
Absolutely sell yourself to be his slave he will wrap
You up in jealous love and let other people say and do
Many things that you cannot do or say. Settle it
Forever that you are to deal directly with the Holy
Spirit and that he is to have the privilege of tying
Your tongue, or chaining your hand or closing your
Eyes in ways that others are not dealt with. Now when
You are so possessed with the living God that you are,
In your secre heart, pleased and delighted over this
Peculiar, personal, private, jealous guardianship and
Management of the Holy Spirit over your life, you will
Have found the vestibule of heaven.
---Author Unknown