like with it, kick
it or squash it under your heel--a picture of true brokenness. And
Jesus was willing to become just that for us--a worm and no man. And
He did so, because that is what He saw us to be, worms having
forfeited all rights by our sin, except to deserve hell. And He now
calls us to take our rightful place as worms for Him and with Him.
The whole Sermon on the Mount with its teaching of non-retaliation,
love for enemies and selfless giving, assumes that that is our
position. But only the vision of the Love that was willing to be
broken for us can constrain us to be willing for that.

"Lord, bend that proud and stiff necked I,
Help me to bow the head and die;
Beholding Him on Calvary,
Who bowed His head for me."

But dying to self is not a thing we do once for all. There may be an
initial dying when God first shows these things, but ever after it
will be a constant dying, for only so can the Lord Jesus be revealed
constantly through us.[footnote3: 2 Cor. 4: 10.] All day long the
choice will be before us in a thousand ways. It will mean no plans,
no time, no money, no pleasure of our own. It will mean a constant
yielding to those around us, for our yieldedness to God is measured
by our yieldedness to man. Every humiliation, everyone who tries and
vexes us, is God's way of breaking us, so that there is a yet deeper
channel in us for the Life of Christ.

You see, the only life that pleases God and that can be victorious is
His life--never our life, no matter how hard we try. But inasmuch as
our self-centred life is the exact opposite of His, we can never be
filled with His life unless we are prepared for God to bring our life
constantly to death. And in that we must co-operate by our moral
choice.

CHAPTER 2
CUPS RUNNING OVER

Brokenness, however, is but the beginning of Revival. Revival itself
is being absolutely filled to overflowing with the Holy Spirit, and
that is victorious living. If we were asked this moment if we were
filled with the Holy Spirit, how many of us would dare to answer
"yes"? Revival is when we can say "yes" at any moment of the day. It
is not egoistic to say so, for filling to overflowing is utterly and
completely God's work--it is all of grace. All we have to do is to
present our empty, broken self and let Him fill and keep filled.
Andrew Murray says, "Just as water ever seeks and fills the lowest
place, so the moment God finds you abased and empty, His glory and