Drop Self Into God's Hands

[Thompson, Darryl]

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Ellen G. White Estate, Devotional for October 28
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Drop Self Into God's Hands

My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able
to pluck them out of my Father's hand. John 10:29.

We must rise to a higher standard on the subject of faith. We have too
little faith. The Word of God is our endorsement. We must take it,
simply believing every word. With this assurance, we may claim large
things, and according to our faith it will be unto us. . . If we humble
our hearts before God, if we seek to abide in Christ, we shall have a
higher, holier experience. . . . 

True faith consists in doing just what God has enjoined, not
manufacturing things He has not enjoined. Justice, truth, mercy, are the
fruit of faith. We need to walk in the light of God's law; then good
works will be the fruit of our faith, the proceeds of a heart renewed
every day.

We must not in any way make self our god. God has given Himself to die
for us, that He might purify us from all iniquity. The Lord will carry
on this work of perfection for us if we will allow ourselves to be
controlled by Him. . . . 

The work of righteousness cannot be carried forward unless we exercise
implicit faith. Move every day under God's mighty working power. The
fruit of righteousness is quietness and assurance forever. If we had
exercised more faith in God and had trusted less to our own ideas and
wisdom, God would have manifested His power in a marked manner on human
hearts. By a union with Him, by living faith, we are privileged to enjoy
the virtue and efficacy of His mediation. Hence we are crucified with
Christ, dead with Christ, risen with Christ, to walk in newness of life
with Him.

We are not to hold ourselves in our own hands. We are to drop self into
the hands of God. . . . Our lack of faith is the reason that we have not
seen more of the power of God. We exercise more faith in our own working
than in God's working for us. God designs that everything possible shall
be done to enable us to stand heart to heart, mind to mind, shoulder to
shoulder. This lack of love and confidence in one another weakens our
faith in God.

We need to pray as we never have prayed before for the baptism of the
Holy Spirit, for if there was ever a time when we needed this baptism,
it is now. There is nothing the Lord has more frequently told us He
would bestow upon us, and nothing by which His name would be more
glorified in bestowing, than the Holy Spirit. When we partake of this
Spirit, men and women will be born again. . . . Souls once lost will be
found, and brought back.

>From Devotional: Our Father Cares, p. 280.