August 20th — COMPLETENESS
August 20th.COMPLETENESS
"And I will give you rest." Matthew 11:28
Whenever anything begins to disintegrate your life with Jesus Christ, turn to Him at once and ask Him to establish rest. Never al ow anything to remain which is making the dis-peace. Take every element of disintegration as something to wrestle against, and not to suffer. Say - Lord, prove Thy consciousness in me, and self-consciousness wil go and He wil be al in al . Beware of al owing self-consciousness to continue because by slow degrees it wil awaken self-pity, and self-pity is Satanic. Wel , I am not understood; this is a thing they ought to apologize for; that is a point I real y must have cleared up. Leave others alone and ask the Lord to give you Christ-consciousness, and He wil poise you until the completeness is absolute.
The complete life is the life of a child. When I am consciously conscious, there is something wrong. It is the sick man who knows what health is. The child of God is not conscious of the wil of God because he is the wil of God. When there has been the slightest deviation from the wil of God, we begin to ask
- What is Thy wil ? A child of God never prays to be conscious that God answers prayer, he is so restful y certain that God always does answer prayer.
If we try to overcome self-consciousness by any common-sense method, we wil develop it tremendously. Jesus says, "Come unto Me and I wil give you rest," i.e., Christ-consciousness wil take the place of self-consciousness. Wherever Jesus comes He establishes rest, the rest of the perfection of activity that is never conscious of itself.