urrender our rights, to be willing to be
subject. When God begins to subdue a soul, He often requires us to yield
the things that are of little importance in themselves, and thus break our
neck and subdue our spirit.

No Christian worker can ever be used of God until the proud self-will is
broken, and the heart is ready to yield to God's every touch, no matter
through whom it may come.

Many people want God to lead them in their way and they will brook no
authority or restraint. They will give their money, but they want to
dictate how it shall be spent. They will work as long as you let them
please themselves, but let any pressure come and you immediately run up
against, not the grace of resignation, but a letter of resignation,
withdrawing from some important trust, and arousing a whole community of
criticising friends, equally disposed to have their own opinions and their
own will about it. It is destructive of all real power.

AUGUST 25.

"And I will put My Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in My
statutes, and ye shall keep My judgments and do them" (Ezek. xxxvi. 27).

This is a great deal more than a new heart. This a heart filled with the
Holy Ghost, the Divine Spirit, the power that causes us to walk in God's
commandments.

This is the greatest crisis that comes to a Christian's life, when into
the spirit that was renewed in conversion, God Himself comes to dwell and
make it His abiding place, and hold it by His mighty power in holiness and
righteousness.

Now, after this occurs, one would suppose that we would be lifted into a
much more hopeful and exuberant spirit, but the prophet gives a very
different picture. He says when this comes to pass we shall loathe
ourselves in our own eyes.

The revelation of God gives a profound sense of our own nothingness and
worthlessness, and lays us on our face in the dust in self-abnegation.

The incoming of the Holy Ghost displaces self and disgraces self forever,
and the highest holiness is to walk in self-renunciation.

AUGUST 26.

"Thine handmaid hath not anything in the house save a pot of oil" (II.
Kings iv. 2).

He asked her, "What hast thou in the house?" And she said, "Nothing but a
pot of oil." But that pot of oil was adequate for all her wants, if she
had only known how to use it.

In truth it represented the Holy Spirit, and the great lesson of the
parable is that the Holy Ghost is adequate for all our wants, if we only
k