We ought to pray that God destroys every lofty thought we have. We ought to ask God to break pride and scatter it to the winds. We ought to ask God to annihilate each clinging shred of self-righteousness. We ought to ask God to give us the lowliness of spirit. We should ask Him to abase us in our self-loathing and self-abhorrence. We ought to ask Him to open in us a fount of penitential tears in contrite repentance. We should ask Him to break us and bind us up. And if we do this our hearts will be a prepared dwelling place for the Almighty. If we do this the Father takes up abode in us, Blessed Jesus comes with His healing touch; and the Spirit descends on us in sanctifying grace. We ought to cry out to the Three in One to inhabit us to be a temple consecrated to His glory.
We ought to realize that when God is present evil cannot abide. The fellowship of Christ is fullness of joy. And beneath His smile is peace of conscience. When we are by His side no fears abide or disturb and no apprehensions banish rest of mind. But with God our heart shall bloom with fragrance and make us meet for His indwelling in repentance. Nothing in existence exceeds His power, nothing is too great for Him, and nothing is too good to give us. We recognize that infinite is His might and boundless is His love. Limitless is His grace and glorious is His saving name. May angels sing for repentance over sin, prodigals returning, the return of backsliders, the release of Satan’s captives, the opening of blind eyes, the broken hearted bound up, cheering the despondent, the self-righteous stripped, the formalist driven from a refuge of lies, the enlightenment of the ignorant and the saints built up in their sacred faith. We must ask great things of a great God. (TVV, pg. 8-9).
