By
the Spirit alone are we awakened from the sleep of
carnal sloth and unconcern for our eternal welfare. By Him
alone are we given to perceive the spirituality and
strictness of the Divine Law, and feel its condemning power
in our conscience. The Spirit alone shows us ourselves and
brings us to realize that our very nature is a sewer of
filth. He reveals to us our desperate need of Christ, who
overcomes our hostility to Him, and
makes us willing to receive Him as our Prophet to
teach and instruct us, our Priest to atone and make
intercession for us, our King to rule over and fight for us.
It is wholly by His powerful operation that Christ is formed
in us “the hope of glory.” By Him alone do we obtain an
experimental and intuitional knowledge of Christ. Said the
Savior, “He shall glorify Me, for He shall receive of Mine,
and shall show it unto you. All things that the Father hath
are Mine: therefore said I that He shall take of mine and
shall show it unto you” (John 16:14, 15).
- A. W. Pink
