December 15th — APPROVED UNTO GOD
December 15th.APPROVED UNTO GOD
"Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." 2 Timothy 2:15
If you cannot express yourself on any subject, struggle until you can. If you do not, someone wil be the poorer al the days of his life. Struggle to re-express some truth of God to yourself, and God wil use that expression to someone else. Go through the winepress of God where the grapes are crushed. You must struggle to get expression experimental y, then there wil come a time when that expression wil become the very wine of strengthening to someone else; but if you say lazily - "I am not going to struggle to express this thing for myself, I wil borrow what I say," the expression wil not only be of no use to you, but of no use to anyone. Try to state to yourself what you feel implicitly to be God's truth, and you give God a chance to pass it on to someone else through you.
Always make a practice of provoking your own mind to think out what it accepts easily. Our position is not ours until we make it ours by suffering. The author who benefits you most is not the one who tel s you something you did not know before, but the one who gives expression to the truth that has been dumbly struggling in you for utterance.