, and if the
precious Blood is to reach us in cleansing power. We may pray long to
be cleansed from some sin and for peace to be restored to our hearts,
but unless we are willing to be broken on the point in question and
be made a partaker of the Lamb's humility there, nothing will happen.
Every sin we ever commit is the result of the hard unbroken self
taking up some attitude of pride, and we shall not find peace through
the Blood until we are willing to see the source of each sin and
reverse the wrong attitude that caused it by a specific repentance,
which will always be humbling. This means that we have not merely to
try and make ourselves feel the humility of Jesus. We have only to
walk in the light and be willing for God to reveal any sin that may
be in our lives, and we shall find ourselves asked by the Lord to
perform all sorts of costly acts of repentance and surrender, often
over what we term small and trivial matters. But their importance can
be gauged by what it costs our pride to put them right. He may show
us a confession or apology that has to be made to someone or an act
of restitution that has to be done.[footnote14:Matt. 5:23-24] He may
show us that we must climb down over something and yield up our
fancied rights in it (Jesus had no rights--have we then?). He may
show us that we must go to the one who has done us a wrong and
confess to him the far greater wrong of resenting it (Jesus never
resented anything or anyone--have we any right to?). He may call us
to be open with our friends that they know us as we really are, and
thus be able to have true fellowship with us. These acts may well be
humiliating and a complete reversal of our usual attitudes of pride
and selfishness, but by such acts we shall know true brokenness and
become partakers of the humility of the Lamb. As we are willing for
this in each issue, the Blood of the Lamb will be able to cleanse us
from all sin and we shall walk with God in white, with His peace in
our hearts.

CHAPTER 10
PROTESTING OUR INNOCENCE?

We have all become so used to condemning the proud self-righteous
attitude of the Pharisee in the parable of the Pharisee and the
Publican,[footnote1:Luke 18:9-14] that we can hardly believe that the
picture of him there is meant to apply to us--which only shows how
much like him we really are. The Sunday School teacher was never so
much a Pharisee, as when she finished her lesson on this parable with
the words, "And no