"The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth
the Father doing." John 5:19
Like our Lord Jesus, we should listen and wait on God
before we try to speak or act for him. Only they who live in God’s presence and
learn of him are really qualified to speak for him. May I say frankly to my
fellow servants that the fault today with many of us is that we are either too bold,
too strict, or too overbearing. We dare to speak what we have not heard from
God. But by what authority do we thus speak? Who grants us this authority? In
what are we superior to other brothers and sisters?
Authority belongs to God alone: no one else possesses it.
The man who is to exercise the authority that God delegates to him must first live
in his presence, commune with him continually, and study to know his mind.
Then, because it is not his own but God’s authority that he meditates, others
will be enriched, not crushed, by his utterances.
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