SOUL-WORK

^[p. 221] SOUL-WORK

I am more and more convinced each day that the check to our prosperity is that the Spirit’s work in us is not conscientiously submitted to. Everything has been accomplished for us; every desire of God for us has been fulfilled; but the Spirit’s work - God’s work now - is to make true to us what is true for us. Many christians are like houses in the course of construction, with a pile of bricks or stones lying quite contiguous to each building, but the building making very little progress. It is comparatively easy and pleasant work to procure the bricks or stones - I mean to read the word and learn the unsearchable riches of Christ, and yet with this there may be very little of the old house pulled down, and therefore very little of the new one built up. I believe that if we were conscientiously walking with the Spirit, we should know the brick or stone - the special truth which He is adding, the one which we next require for His work in us.