The Power of the Received Word
To BE benefited, we must receive the Word. Our way and will must be submitted to God’s way and will as expressed in His Word. We must yield to do His precepts, yield to have His promises fulfilled in us, yield to accept in gladness His warnings, reproofs, and admonitions, and then His Word will come into our heart with the same creative power manifested in the creation of the heavens and earth. In other words, we must empty ourselves of self for Christ’s sake, and Christ, the Life and Light of the world, will come in and fill us with His fulness. Then, instructed by the Spirit through His Word, will His creative power be manifested in facts to the world. Then will the chaos of sin give place to the cosmos of righteousness, and the beauty of the Lord our God born within our hearts will be seen upon us, and all our works will be established. Let the light of Christ into the heart, and it will shine out. Plant the good seed, and water it by the showers of divine grace, and it will bear fruit of itself which will glorify God. Get the principle within, and that will develop all the facts without.