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"Despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of Him." (Hebrews 12:5)
It's very easy to quench the Spirit; we do it by despising the chastening of the Lord, by fainting when we are rebuked by Him. If we have only a shallow experience of sanctification, we mistake the shadow for the reality, and when the Spirit of God begins to check, we say - oh, that must be the devil.
Let's never quench the Spirit, and not despise Him when He says to us - "Don't be blind on this point any more; you are not where you thought you were. Up to the present I haven't been able to reveal it to you, but I reveal it now." When the Lord chastens us like that, let's let Him have His way. Let's let Him relate us rightly to God.
"Nor faint when thou art rebuked of Him." We get into sulks with God and say - "Oh, well, I can't help it; I did pray and things didn't turn out right, and I'm going to give it all up." Think what would happen if we talked like this in any other domain of life!
Are we prepared to let God grip us by His power and do a work in us that's worthy of Himself?
Sanctification isn't our idea of what we want God to do for us; sanctification is God's idea of what He wants to do for us, and He has to get us into the attitude of mind and spirit where at any cost we'll let Him sanctify us wholly.
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