"... that in all things he might have the preeminence. For it pleased the Father that in him should all fullness dwell" (Colossians 1:18-19)
Someone wrote the godly Macarius of Optino that his spiritual counsel had been helpful.
"This cannot be," Macarius wrote in reply, "Only the mistakes are mine. All good advice is the advice of the Spirit of God; His advice that I happen to have heard rightly and to have passed on without distorting it."
There is an excellent lesson here which we must not allow to go unregarded. It is the sweet humility of the man of God ... In this day when shimmering personalities carry on the Lord's work after the methods of the entertainment world, it is refreshing to associate for a moment even in the pages of a book with a sincere and humble man who keeps his own personality out of sight and places the emphasis upon the inner working of God.
Oh, to be saved from myself, dear Lord!
Oh, to be lost in Thee!
Oh, that it might be no more "I", but
Christ that lives in me!
~A. W. Tozer~
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