BLENDED PERSONALITIES

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Michigan · Apr 3, 1900

BLENDED PERSONALITIES.

The King's Messenger.

To RECEIVE the message of the Spirit is to receive the message of the Father and the Son. There is something charmingly beautiful about their union. With exquisite delicacy of utterance does Jesus declare the divine authority of his message, “The word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father’s which sent me;” and again, “The words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself.” He is ever in union with the Father, and came, really, that men might see the Father, and know his love.

So the Holy Spirit cherishes the same delicacy of spirit and expression. He is the administrator, revealer, and guide of this age. And as such he must make himself known and understood; but withal he does not speak from himself alone. He does not manifest himself as apart from the Father and the Son; but as one with and sent by the Father and the Son.

He is here that he may make us know the things of Christ, and any nominal honor given to the Spirit that does not really make known the character and things of Christ is a great grief to his unassuming, dovelike nature. He would make us know his personality, but ever in living connection with Christ. He abides in our hearts down here, while Christ Jesus is our Advocate with the Father above; but he abides in us as Christ, making the very life that speaks and works in Christ to also speak and work in us. “Christ in you.”

Let us not grow overbold concerning the Spirit alone; but remember that he is ever with the Father and the Son, and that whatever he speaks to us he speaks as from them; for it is written, “Whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak.” Let him make you know, beloved, how surpassingly beautiful are the blended personalities of our triune God, manifested by the personal presence of the Holy Ghost.

To know him is to know the Father and the Son, and these can not be truly known and really honored until we receive and know the Spirit; for no man can call Jesus Lord but by the Holy Ghost. And, furthermore, he would so unfold Christ in us, who are born of the Spirit, causing his life to actually flow through us, that our lives are submerged and blended in the same oneness with the Father and the Son.

Blessed be God forever, for the gift of the Holy Ghost, by whose work we who are the body of Christ are perfected in union with our living Head. For as we allow self to be displaced, and he comes in, his personality and ours are blended more and more. Our life is inseparable from his, our thoughts are the impartation of his mind, our love is the love of God, and our works and words are the fruit of his active life in us.

Let the blending process go on; be willing, yea, eager, to sink out of self into Christ.