THE LIFE YIELDED — HOW? (3)

Oh! my friends, where have you put the Lord Jesus Christ in your life? Have you any locked doors? Have you put Him away in some little hidden corner and given Him no freedom in your life? Has He longed to get into the social hall of your life where all your pleasures are? Has He put His nail-pierced hand on the door, longing to enter, but could not — for it is locked from the inside? Has He wanted to enter into the room where your business was carried on and share in both its projects and profits? Has He been denied entrance because shady, crooked practices went on there which His all-seeing eye would detect? Has He longed to enter the room where life plans were being shaped and to help fashion them? And He tried the door, but entrance was denied — locked from the inside? And has He who longs to fill and to bless you gone back to His little upstairs back room with a grieved and sorrowful heart?

I went from that college town to another. My hostess there was a dear widow. Her home was very humble. We ate in the kitchen, but oh! such hospitality I have seldom enjoyed. Every good thing which her frugal means would permit her to provide she had for me. The first day she said to me, “Miss Paxson, my home is very humble, but while you are here it is all yours. Go where you want to and do just what you want to — just make yourself at home.” And I, who traveled constantly, oh! how I spread out over that whole house and made it mine the few days I was there!

Oh! friends, is the Lord Jesus living within you? Have you ever said to Him, “Lord Jesus, I have only a very simple life to offer you as a dwelling place, but while you are here it is all yours. Go where you want to, do what you want to — just make yourself at home!” He waits for just such an invitation. How quickly He will accept it once it is honestly offered, and how He will spread out over the whole life — truly making Himself at home. If you have not unlocked all the doors from the inside and given Him a gracious and glad invitation to enter, will you do so today?

“I believe on the name of the      Son of God,      Therefore I am in Him:      Having redemption through His blood      And life through His Spirit. And He is in me, and all fulness is in Him.      To Him I belong      By purchase: conquest and self-surrender.      To me He belongs for all my hourly need.      There is no cloud between my Lord and me. There is no difficulty inward or outward, that      He is not ready to meet in me to-day.      The Lord is my keeper.”

Source: “Life on the Highest Plane” by Ruth Paxson

Lord, how precious it is to have You living Your life through us! We swing wide open and yield every area of our being so that we can be conformed to Your very image.