On Our Learning This Lesson Depends
Our Comforting Walk Heavenward By William Romain When the Holy
Spirit takes of the things of Christ and preaches them to the
heart, O what sweet peace follows! The believer then finds himself
saved from all the miseries of sin and entitled to all the blessings
of eternal glory. Being thus persuaded of his safety
by believing in the sin-atoning death of our great High Priest,
the Holy Spirit then teaches him how to live upon Christ and
how to make use of Christ's fullness. On our learning this lesson depends
our comforting walk heavenward. For Christ does not give us a
stock of grace and expect us to improve it by being faithful
to grace given. No, no, that is not His way.
Our souls must depend on Him, just as our bodies do upon the
elements of this world. Every moment we must live by
faith upon His fullness and be every moment receiving out grace
upon grace out of His fullness. And this is our happiness, to
have all in Christ. A beggar in myself, but rich
with unsearchable, eternal riches in him. Ignorant still in myself,
but led and taught by his unerring wisdom. A sinner still, but saved
by his blood and righteousness. Weak and helpless still, but
kept by his almighty love. Nothing but sorrow in myself,
nothing but joy in him. Oh, this is a blessed life. No
tongue can tell what a heaven it is. Thus to live by faith
in the Son of God. Thanks be to him, that I do know
a little of it. Surely I could not have thought,
some years ago, that there was such a heaven upon earth, as
I now find. you