Getting there
"Where the self-interest sleeps and the real interest awakens. Master, where dwelled Thou? ... Come and see ... Come with Me." John 1:39
"'They abode with Him that day.' That is about all some ous ever do, then we wake up to actualities, self-interest arises and the abiding is passed. There is no condition of life in which we cannot abide in Jesus.
'Thou art Simon, thou shalt be called Peter.' God writes the new name on those places only in our lives where He has erased the pride and self-sufficiency and self-interest. Some of us have the new name in spouts only, like spiritual measles. In sections we look all right. When we have our best spiritual mood on, you would think we were very high-toned saints; but don't look at us when we are not in that mood. The discple is one who has the new name written all over him; self-interest and pride and self-sufficiency have been completely erased."
My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers, June 12
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