er the
Blood of Jesus, and then peace will be restored and we shall go on
our way with our cups running over. If, however, God does not give us
His peace, it will be because we are not really broken. Perhaps we
have yet to say "sorry" to somebody else as well as to God. Or
perhaps we still feel it is the other person's fault. But if we have
lost our peace, it is obvious whose fault it is. We do not lose peace
with God over another person's sin, but only over our own. God wants
to show us our reactions, and only when we are willing to be cleansed
there, will we have His peace. Oh, what a simple but searching thing
it is to be ruled by the peace of God, none other than the Holy
Spirit Himself! Former selfish ways, which we never bothered about,
are now shown to us and we cannot walk in them without the referee
blowing his whistle. Grumbling, bossiness, carelessness, down to the
smallest thing are all revealed as sins, when we are prepared to let
our days be ruled by the peace of God. Many times a day and over the
smallest things we shall have to avail ourselves of the cleansing
Blood of Jesus, and we shall find ourselves walking the way of
brokenness as never before. But Jesus will be manifested in all His
loveliness and grace in that brokenness.

Many of us, however, have neglected the referee's whistle so often
and for so long that we have ceased to hear it. Days follow days and
we feel we have little need of cleansing and no occasion of being
broken. In that condition we are usually in a worse state than we
ever imagine. It will need a great hunger for restored fellowship
with God to possess our hearts before we will be willing to cry to
God to show us where the Blood of Jesus must be applied. He will show
us, to begin with, just one thing, and it will be our obedience and
brokenness on that one thing that will be the first step into Revival
for us.

[footnote*:Some may be inclined to question whether it is right to call
such things as self-consciousness, reserve and fear, sins. "Call them
infirmities, disabilities, temperamental weaknesses, if you will," some
have said, "but not sins. To do so would be to get us into bondage."
The reverse, however, is true. If these things are not sins, then we
must put up with them for the rest of our lives, there is no deliverance.
But if these and other things like them are indeed sins, then there
is a Fountain for sin, and we may experience cleansing and
deliverance from them,