Whenever and wherever, by a new revealing of Himself, His purpose and method, the Lord has secured those who have moved out on to the ground of Christ only and in fullness, they have always had to meet a great and painful cost. Usually it has been their own brethren in Christ who have exacted it. The truth is that - in many cases - they have only taken the ground which everybody knows is the ground of spiritual fullness; where questions of "church connection" and orders, etc., are never raised; where such things as joining something, or conforming to a special teaching or practice are never mentioned, but "Christ is all in all"; and the one concern has been that He should have what is His ground and way of continuous increase.
The Way of Fruitfulness
If you are going to be an Overcomer, if you are going with the Lord wholly and utterly, to persecute in a thoroughgoing way God's full end, to pursue it, and pay the price, there is undoubtedly going to be tremendous enrichment of others, and the fact is, and it is a settled law, that the enrichment of others can only come in this way. Those who will not pay the price forfeit the fruitfulness. The real values of Christ have come all the way through the centuries through men after this sort, men of this mind. Your greatness and our value and your fruitfulness will be according to the utterness of your abandonment to God's full thought. He will see to the rest, and many will thank God that you paid the price, that you suffered for an utter way for the Lord, that you counted not the cost too great.
~T. Austin-Sparks~
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