“I press toward the mark” (Phil. iii. 14).
We have thought much about what we have received. Let us think of the
things we have not received, of some of the vessels that have not yet been
filled, of some of the places in our life that the Holy Ghost has not yet
possessed for God, and signalized by His glory and His presence.
Shall the coming months be marked by a diligent, heart-searching
application of “the rest of the oil,” to the yet unoccupied possibilities
of our life and service?
Have we known His fulness of grace in our spiritual life? Have we tasted a
little of His glory? Have we believed His promise for the mind, the soul,
the spirit? Have we known all His possibilities for the body? Have we
tested Him in His power to control the events of providence, and to move
the hearts of men and nations? Has He opened to us the treasure-house of
God, and met our financial needs as He might? Have we even begun to
understand the ministry of prayer, as God would have us exercise it? God
give us “the rest of the oil”!