“I in them, and Thou in Me” (John xvii. 23).
If we would be enlarged to the full measure of God’s purpose, let us
endeavor to realize something of our own capacities for His filling.
We little know the size of a human soul and spirit. Never, until He
renews, cleanses and enters the heart can we have any adequate conception
of the possibilities of the being whom God made in His very image, and
whom He now renews after the pattern of the Lord Jesus Himself.
We know, however, that God has made the human soul to be His temple and
abode, and that He knows how to make the house that can hold His infinite
fulness. We know something of this as all our nature quickens into spring
tide life at the coming of the Holy Spirit, and as from time to time new
baptisms awaken the dormant powers and susceptibilities that we did not
know we possessed.
Oh, let us give Him the right to make the best of us, and, with wonder
filled, we shall some day behold the glorious temple which He has reared,
and shall say, “Lord, what is man that Thou hast set Thine heart upon
Him?”