We do thank the Lord for gathering us
together at this time.
And as I waited upon the Lord, I
felt that the Lord has given me a
burden on this matter of unto-fullness.
God willing, I will have four sessions.
So the first session will be on the
call to fullness.
And the second one will be on the
vision of fullness.
And the third one will be on the
way to fullness.
And the last one will be some practical
applications of fullness.
So this evening we would like to consider
together before the Lord on this matter of
the call to fullness.
Now will you please turn to Colossians.
The letter to the Colossians.
Chapter 1.
We'll read from verse 9 through verse 13.
Colossians chapter 1 verse 9.
For this reason we also from the day
we heard of your faith and love do
not cease praying and asking for you to
the end that he may be filled with
the full knowledge of his will in all
wisdom and spiritual understanding so as to walk
worthily of the Lord unto all well-pleasing
bearing fruit in every good work and growing
by the true knowledge of God strengthen with
all power according to the might of his
glory and to all endurance and long-suffering
with joy giving thanks to the Father who
has made us fit for sharing the portion
of the Saints in light who has delivered
us from the authority of darkness and translated
us into the kingdom of the Son of
his love.
And again Ephesians chapter 3.
The letter to the Ephesians chapter 3.
We begin with verse 14 through verse 21.
Ephesians chapter 3 verse 14.
For this reason I bow my knees to
the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ to
whom every family in the heavens and on
earth is named in order that he may
give you according to the riches of his
glory to be strengthened with power by his
spirit in the inner man that the Christ
may dwell through faith in your hearts being
rooted and founded in love in order that
he may be fully able to apprehend with
all the saints what is the breadth and
length and depth and height and to know
the love of the Christ which surpasses knowledge
that he may be filled even to all
the fullness of God but to him that
is able to do far exceedingly above all
that we ask or think according to the
power which work in us to him be
glory in the church in Christ Jesus and
to all generations to the age of ages.
Amen.
Shall we pray?
Dear Heavenly Father we do praise and thank
thee that we have that access to thee
through the precious blood of our Lord Jesus
and the new and living way that he
has opened for us and we do praise
and thank thee knowing that he is our
high priest interceding for us so Father we
just come this evening to thy presence with
holy boldness knowing that we are able to
see thee face to face that we may
be transformed from glory to glory by the
Lord the spirit so our Father we just
commit this time into thy hands and trust
thy Holy Spirit to open thy word to
our hearts that thy word may become life
and spirit to us to the praise of
thy glory we ask in the name of
our Lord Jesus.
Amen.
In the two portions of scripture that we
have just read you find these words such
as feel, full, fullness, all, every and
whenever you see these words immediately you get
that impression that all these words really speak
of one thing and that is fullness and
if you read these two letters the letter
to the Colossians and the letter to the
Ephesians you will find through these two letters
these words spread over these two letters and
added to these you find words such as
complete, perfect, now all these words impress
upon us one thing and it is this
matter of fullness.
Now dear brothers and sisters our God is
a God of fullness.
Our God is full.
His purpose is full.
His ways are full.
His works are full.
Everything that is related to God is full.
We can say that fullness is the trademark
of our God.
You cannot think of God without thinking of
His being full.
Full in every way.
Our God is a God of fullness.
But you know we human beings are very
limited.
We have fallen and we are finite.
God is infinite but we are finite and
because of this it is very difficult for
us to really comprehend the fullness of God.
In other words we find that how often
we limit our God.
We circumscribe Him.
It is not because He is not full.
It is because we are so limited we
are so restricted.
So we really need God to enlarge our
capacity.
We really need God to reveal Himself to
us in such a way that we may
be able to be delivered from our smallness.
That we may be able to understand the
greatness, the fullness of our God.
Let me illustrate it.
I think we are all familiar with the
story of Jacob.
If you turn to Genesis chapter 28 you
will find that Jacob as he fled from
his home he wandered in the wilderness and
the night came.
So there you will find Jacob he took
a stone, made that stone his pillow and
he fell asleep.
Now I often wonder how can you sleep
with a stone as your pillow?
But I think probably if you are really
tired you will be able to go to
sleep even with a stone as your pillow.
But when he was asleep he dreamed a
dream.
In other words God revealed Himself to him
in a dream.
And he dreamed and behold a ladder was
set up on the earth.
And the top of it reached to the
heavens.
And behold angels of God ascended and descended
upon it.
And behold Jehovah stood above it.
And he said, Now the Lord spoke to
him.
He said, I am Jehovah the God of
Abraham thy father and the God of Isaac.
The land of which thou liest to thee
will I give it and to thy seed.
And thy seed shall be as the dust
of the earth and thou shalt spread abroad
to the west and to the east and
to the north and to the south.
And in thee and in thy seed shall
all the families of the earth be blessed.
And behold I am with thee and will
keep thee in all places to which thou
goest and will bring thee again into this
land for I will not leave thee until
I have done what I have spoken to
thee of.
There God spoke to him.
God gave him great promises.
And then Jacob awoke from his sleep and
said, surely Jehovah is in this place.
And I knew it not.
And he was afraid.
And said, how dreadful is this place.
This is none other but a house of
God and this is the gate of heaven.
Now probably we'll say, how blessed, how beautiful,
how sweet that this is the gate of
heaven and the house of God.
But if we are not really ready for
it, you will find that this is very
dreadful when you see the gate of heaven
and the house of God.
And Jacob rose early in the morning and
took the stone that he had made his
pillow and set it up for a pillar
and poured oil on the top of it.
And he called the name of that place
Bethel.
And Jacob vowed a vow.
Now listen to this.
Saying, if God will be with me and
keep me on this road that I go
and will give me bread to eat and
a garment to put on and I come
again to my father's house in peace, then
shall Jehovah be my God and this stone
which I have set up for a pillar
shall be God's house.
And of all that thou wilt give me,
I will without fail give the tenth to
thee.
Now brothers and sisters, if you compare what
God had promised Jacob and then what Jacob
responded with a vow, you can see a
great difference there.
There you'll find God give him great promises.
God said, I'm the God of your father.
I'm with you.
The place where you lie will be given
to you and to your seed.
You look to the east and west, north
and south and all this will be yours.
And all the families of the nations will
be blessed through you and your seed.
And I will be with you wherever you
go and I will bring you back.
Now these are God's promises, great promises.
But you know Jacob, he was such a
small man, he could only accept a little
bit of what God had promised.
All he desired was that God would protect
him, give him bread to eat, a garment
to put on, and gave him leaving safely
back home.
And that's all he could accept of God.
And not only that, but you'll find he
even did that in a bargaining spirit.
If God would do this for me, then
I will make God my God and this
stone that is made a pillar shall be
the house of God.
And I will give one tenth of whatever
he gave me.
Now brothers and sisters, here you see, our
God is such a great God.
He is so full and his promises are
so great.
And yet, here is a man who is
not able to grasp the greatness, the fullness
of God's promises.
He could only take a little bit.
And even with a little bit, he was
bargaining without faith.
Now that's how we can limit God.
Use another illustration, David.
You know David, God took him out of
the pasture and made him king over all
Israel.
And then in 2 Samuel chapter 7, David,
the king, dwelt in his house and God
gave him rest, ran about from all his
enemies.
Then the king said to Nathan the prophet,
see now I dwell in a house of
cedars and the ark of God dwells under
curtains.
David loved God.
He dwelt in a house of cedars.
But at that time, the ark of God
was still in a tent that David set
up for God.
So David had a desire to build God
a permanent house.
And Nathan said to the king, go, do
all that is in thy heart, for Jehovah
is with thee.
Because the Lord is with you, whatever you
desire, do it.
The Lord is in it.
But then the word of God came through
Nathan to David.
Thus said Jehovah, will thou build me a
house to dwell in?
For I have not dwelt in a house
since the day that I brought up the
children of Israel out of Egypt, even to
this day.
But I went about in a tent and
in a tabernacle.
In all my going about with all the
children of Israel, did I speak a word
with any of the tribes of Israel, whom
I commanded to feed my people in Israel,
saying, why build ye not me a house
of cedars?
In other words, God's heart was deeply touched
by that desire of David.
David desired to build God a house.
God hadn't asked for it.
God said, I never ask anyone for it.
But you want to build a house for
me.
And that is actually what I want.
God's heart was deeply touched.
And then the Lord said, I took thee
from the pasture grounds, from following the sheep,
to be prince over my people, over Israel.
And I have been with thee whithersoever thou
wentest, and have cut off all thine enemies
from before thee, and have made thee a
great name, like unto the name of the
great men that are on the earth.
And I will appoint a place for my
people for Israel, and will plant them, and
they may dwell in a place of their
own, and be disturbed no more.
Neither shall the sense of weakness afflict them
any more, as formerly, and since the time
that I commanded judges to be over my
people Israel.
And I have given thee rest from all
thine enemies, and Jehovah telleth thee, that Jehovah
will make thee a house.
And so on.
And then here it says, It is he,
that is the son of David, who shall
build a house for my name, and I
will establish the throne of his kingdom for
ever.
I will be his father, and he shall
be my son.
And thy house, and thy kingdom, shall be
made firm for ever before thee.
Thy throne shall be established for ever.
According to all these words, and according to
all this vision, so did Nathan speak to
David.
David, God's heart was so touched, that God
said to David, I will establish your kingdom,
and your family for ever.
My mercy shall not depart from you.
Your throne shall be established for ever.
God gave him great promises.
Now how did David respond?
And King David went in, and sat before
Jehovah, and said, Who am I, Lord Jehovah?
And what is my house, that thou hast
brought me hitherto?
And yet this has been a small thing
in thy sight, Lord Jehovah, but thou hast
spoken also of thy servant's house for a
great while to come.
And is this the manner of man, Lord
Jehovah?
And what can David say more to thee?
For thou, Lord Jehovah, knowest thy servant.
For thy worth's sake, and according to thine
own heart, hast thou done all this greatness
to make thy servant know it.
Wherefore thou, great Jehovah Elohim?
For there is none like thee, neither is
there any god beside thee.
According to all that we have heard with
our ears, and who is like thy people?
Like Israel, the one nation in the earth
that God went to redeem to their people
to Himself, and to make Himself a name,
and to do for them great things and
terrible.
For thy land, before thy people, which thou
redeemest to thyself from Egypt, from the nations
and their gods.
And thou hast established to thyself thy people
Israel to be a people unto thee forever,
and thou, Jehovah, art become their God.
And now, Jehovah Elohim, the word which thou
hast spoken concerning thy servant and concerning his
house, fulfil it forever, and do as thou
hast said.
And let thy name be magnified forever, seeing
Jehovah host his God over Israel.
And let the house of thy servant David
be established before thee.
For thou, Jehovah host, the God of Israel,
hast revealed to thy servant, saying, I will
build thee a house.
Therefore hath thy servant found in his heart
to pray this prayer to thee, and now,
Lord Jehovah, thou art that God, and thy
words are true.
And thou hast promised this goodness unto thy
servant, and now let it please thee to
bless the house of thy servant, that it
may be before thee forever.
For thou, Jehovah, hast spoken it, and with
thy blessing shall the house of thy servant
be blessed forever.
David might not understand fully what God had
promised to him.
He could not see that far.
And yet you find David responded by receiving,
accepting everything that God had promised.
Because he knew God.
God is not like man.
This is not the way that man will
do.
But this is the way that God always
does.
And David knew God.
Even though he did not fully understand.
He could not see so far to that
son of his, our Lord Jesus, that his
throne shall be established forever.
He could not see that far.
And yet you find he came to God,
he accepted everything God had said to him
by faith.
He did not limit God in any way.
And because he did not limit God, therefore
you'll find God was able to bless him
to the fullest.
So here you'll find two different people.
One, when he was faith with the fullness
of God, he could only take in a
little bit.
And yet we do thank God, even though
Jacob could only take in a little bit
of what God has promised.
And yet God fulfilled everything that he had
promised to Jacob.
Now that is grace.
But here you'll find another person, David.
He was able to receive whatever God has
said.
And because of this he entered into the
fullness of God.
Brothers and sisters, as you read the Bible,
you will find that everything that is related
to God is fullness.
You cannot think of anything that has anything
to do with God less than fullness.
Why?
Because God cannot deny himself.
He is a God of fullness.
Therefore everything does is full.
That is what he is.
He cannot do anything less than what he
is.
That is when God created the heavens and
the earth.
He filled the heavens and the earth.
He filled the heavens with stars.
He filled the earth with living creatures.
And that is the reason why you'll find
the psalmist, if you read the psalms, you'll
find the psalmist says, The earth and the
fullness thereof.
The sea and the fullness thereof.
The world and the fullness thereof.
When God created man, he not only gave
man a spirit, he made man according to
his own image.
But he also gave dominion to man.
When God called Abraham out of Ur of
Chaldea, he gave him that man flowing with
milk and honey.
And not only that, but Abraham actually had
a revelation of the city with foundations.
In the New Testament, when God redeemed us,
you'll find that it is not only that
we may be justified, but we are also
being sanctified.
And not only being sanctified, but even glorified.
Everything, anything, that has something to do with
God, it has to be full.
Because this is what God really is.
Through history, up to our present time, the
calling of God is a calling unto fullness.
God is calling us unto his fullness.
Or you may put it in another word,
God is calling us to himself.
Our calling is an on high calling.
As you'll find in Philippians chapter 3.
It is not a low calling.
It is an on high calling.
He is calling us into the fullness of
Christ.
And that is why you'll find the apostle
Paul, he is pressing on.
He said, I want to be apprehended, to
apprehend that which I am being apprehended by
God.
I'm forgetting what is behind, and pressing on
towards the goal.
The I calling from above.
It is a calling to the fullness of
Christ.
Our calling is a heavenly calling.
You'll find that in Hebrews chapter 3.
It is a heavenly calling.
God is calling us to heaven.
That is to where he is.
Our calling is a holy calling.
That is in Timothy.
It is a holy calling.
It is a calling that is separated from
everything.
Unto God himself.
Dear brothers and sisters, let us from the
very beginning understand this.
And that is, we are all called.
Every one of us here are being called
by God.
But what is our calling?
What does God call us to?
God is calling us nothing less than his
fullness.
If we do not enter into his fullness,
then we fail in answering to his call.
Because our very calling is a calling unto
fullness.
The problem
is not with God's calling.
The problem is with the way we respond.
Let us use the children of Israel as
an illustration.
You know, the children of Israel, God brought
them out of Egypt.
And God brought them to himself at Mount
Sinai.
God said, if you will keep my covenant,
then I will make you a nation of
priests.
My own possession.
But you find the children of Israel, after
they came out of Egypt, you find they
wandered in the wilderness for 40 years.
Even though they came out of Egypt, but
their hearts always went back to Egypt.
Egypt was still in them.
All their desire was to be delivered from
slavery.
They had no vision of God's fullness.
In the wilderness, in 1 Corinthians chapter 10,
Paul said, they were all baptized in the
cloud, in the water, unto Moses.
And they all ate the food that came
from heaven.
And they all drank the spiritual drink, the
water that came out of the smithen rock.
But that generation did not please God.
They fell in the wilderness.
They came out, but they never entered in.
They were delivered from slavery, but they never
entered into the liberty that is in Christ.
They fell in the wilderness.
You know, the Corinthian believers are like that.
And that is the reason why you find
Paul mentioned this in his first letter to
the Corinthians.
The Corinthian believers, they were saved.
Marvelously saved.
But they had no vision of God's purpose.
Paul was not able to share with them
the wisdom, the mystery of Christ.
Because they had no desire for God's fullness.
They were carnal.
They were self-centered.
All they want was something to satisfy them.
They want God's provision.
They never entered into the fullness of God.
Now, brothers and sisters, we find among God's
people today, many of God's people are like
the Corinthian believers.
Or like the children of Israel that fell
in the wilderness.
They are saved, but they wandered in the
wilderness.
We know the wilderness experience speak of one
thing.
And that is life according to the flesh.
They are saved, but they still live according
to the flesh.
They want to satisfy themselves all the time.
They murmur.
They love the world.
They do not have that heavenly vision.
They do not see the fullness that God
is calling them.
And unfortunately we find many today are in
that category.
Not because God has not called them to
fullness.
It is because they live in themselves.
They limit God.
They are not able to take in what
God has provided for them.
They never enter in.
And then we find after they wandered for
40 years, a new generation was raised up.
God had finally brought them out of the
wilderness.
They came to the plain of Moab, ready
to enter into the promised land.
And yet at that very moment, two tribes
of the twelve tribes of Israel, the tribe
of Reuben and the tribe of Ged, they
came to Moses and said, this land that
is the land of the Amorites on the
eastern shore of Jordan, this land is good
for cattle.
And we have very many cattle.
Give us this land.
We would rather have this land as our
possession.
Do not bring us over the Jordan.
Now they are already on the verge of
entering into the land flowing with milk and
honey.
And yet they refuse to enter in.
They would rather stay on the other side.
Did they not know that this was not
what they should do?
Not a place that they should stay?
Certainly they knew.
Because if you read the history you will
find they were always conscious that they were
not where they should be.
They were afraid that one day the people
on the other side of Jordan would not
recognize them as God's people.
Because they knew they were not where they
should be.
And yet they decided to stay there.
Instead of letting God choose for them their
property, they chose themselves what they wanted.
They could see Canaan just over the water,
but they never entered in.
You know brothers and sisters, I think if
you read the letter to the Hebrews, the
Hebrew believers are somewhat like that.
These Hebrew believers, they receive some revelation.
They saw that Jesus was the Redeemer, the
Messiah, the Christ.
They believe in the Lord Jesus.
And yet you find these Hebrew believers, even
though they had some vision of Christ, they
were as if standing on the side of
the river Jordan.
They could see over the water the promised
land.
And yet you find they held on to
Judaism.
They live under the shadow of the promised
land.
But they were not in the promised land.
They held on to that which is good.
And they were not able to get into
that which is better.
And that's the reason why you find the
writers of the Hebrews trying to enlarge their
vision.
Their vision of Christ.
So that they may be able to be
delivered from themselves.
And enter into the fullness of Christ.
These are Hebrew believers.
And dear brothers and sisters, today we find
among God's people, there are some who are
like that.
Thank God we are saved.
Thank God we experience something of being delivered
from the flesh.
It is as if we have come out
of the wilderness.
But we are still not in Canaan.
We are in the land of Moab.
We could see the promised land.
At a distance.
But we were not in it.
Do you know what they say?
Do not bring us over the Jordan.
We have many cattle.
And this land is good for cattle.
And that's what we want.
You know they have experienced some deliverance from
the flesh.
Because they have come out of the wilderness.
And they have known some victories of Christ.
Because they overcome the Amorites.
They are people blessed by God.
Where comes these cattle?
The blessing of God.
But you find they live in the blessing
of God instead of the blesser.
They are stuck with blessings.
They cannot enter into the blessed one.
And dear brothers and sisters, we find there
are some Christians today who are like this.
You may have known some victories over the
flesh.
And you are being blessed by God spiritually.
Blessed with many gifts.
But unfortunately you find that you are being
occupied with the blessing of God.
The gifts that God has given you.
And that keep you away from the blesser.
And you know the reason why?
They say, do not bring us over the
Jordan.
They are afraid to cross the river Jordan.
Now the river Jordan represents death.
In other words, even they know some deliverance
from their flesh.
Some victories over the flesh.
Yet they will not give up their self
life.
Refuse to go into death.
Identify with Christ in His death, burial and
resurrection.
They are afraid to pay the cost.
And because of that, you find they stay
on the wrong side of the river Jordan.
And I am afraid many believers today are
still there.
But thank God you find there is another
category of persons, people.
They cross the river Jordan.
And they enter into the promised land.
Now it is true, there they met their
enemies, the seven tribes of Canaan.
But thank God they have the Lord Himself
as their captain of the host.
Therefore none can stand before them.
And wherever they put down their foot, that
is their possession.
And you look forward to the days under
David and Solomon.
And there you find they enter into the
full possession that God has promised to Abraham,
their father.
These people enter into the fullness of God.
And you know these two letters, the letter
to the Colossians and the letter to Ephesians.
These two letters, they speak of the fullness
of God.
Now it is true, the Colossian believers, they
had a problem.
Their problem is not that they do not
want fullness.
They want fullness.
They want it very much.
But they try to know fullness through human
wisdom and knowledge.
That is where they get off.
They want fullness, that is good.
But they do not see that fullness is
in Christ.
They try to find fullness in philosophy.
They try to find fullness in some mysteries.
Some human wisdom.
And when they got into these things, you
find instead of fullness, it is really emptiness.
Nothing satisfying.
So here you find the Apostle Paul try
to lead them back to the way of
fullness.
And that is to be found only in
Christ.
But of course with the Ephesians you find
there is no such problem.
Because here you find the Apostle Paul is
able to share with the Ephesians all that
is upon his heart.
The whole counsel of God.
And the reason why the Ephesians are able
to understand God's fullness is because they approach
this by way of love.
Not by way of wisdom, but by way
of love.
They love God.
They love the Lord.
And because they love Him, therefore you will
find He reveals Himself to them in great
fullness.
Dear brothers and sisters, the only way to
enter into the fullness of Christ is through
love.
Not through knowledge, but through love.
So here you find God's calling is unto
fullness.
But how do we respond?
Do we respond as the Israelites that fell
in the wilderness, like the Corinthian believers?
Or do we respond like those two tribes
that stay in the land of Moab, in
the land of Amorites, the Hebrew believers?
Or do we respond as the Ephesians and
the Colossian believers, that they enter into the
fullness of God?
I would like to read to you some
concluding words by Brother T.
Austin Sparks in that book, The Pioneers of
the Heavenly Way.
Now this is his concluding words.
God has but one end which will bring
him complete satisfaction.
The fullness of Christ.
That fullness is meant to be found in
a people, taken out of the nations.
By that people, in that fullness, He purposes
to rule the creation in the ages to
come.
This will not be attained by willy-nilly,
but only by infinite cost and conflict now.
All who come out do not enter into
this ultimate.
Many will not go all the way, fulfill
all the conditions.
Into the fullness of purpose, pioneers are necessary.
And the way of the pioneers is a
peculiar way, fraught with experience, sufferings, perplexities and
testings, of which others know little.
But God must have His pioneers.
Individuals or companies.
And these are they who wholly follow the
Lord.
Brothers and sisters, the calling of God knows
no repentance.
This we find in Romans chapter 11.
When God calls, He never changes His calling.
No matter what happens to us, He will
not lower His calling.
He will not change His calling.
So brothers and sisters, let us remember that
God's calling knows no repentance.
That is to say, God never changes His
calling.
Whom He has foreknown, He has called.
Whom He has called, He has justified.
Whom He has justified, He has glorified.
God's calling never changes.
But, there is another verse, in 2 Peter,
chapter 1.
It says, make your calling and election sure,
by doing these things.
In other words, on God's side, His calling
never changes.
It is not because of you, He will
change His calling to suit you.
No, His calling is an on high calling.
He is calling us into His fullness.
And into His fullness, we must enter.
He who calls us is faithful.
He will perform it no matter how.
Now that's on God's side.
But there is our side.
And on our side, we do have a
responsibility.
And the responsibility is, we need to make
our calling and election sure.
We need to be diligent.
We need to respond to God's calling.
We need to surrender ourselves.
We need to pay the cost.
We need to cross the river Jordan.
We need to will the will of God.
And it is only when we fulfill our
part, then you will find God is able
to do, even today, what He has ordained
in eternity.
So brothers and sisters, tonight, I just want
to put this before you.
That God has called every one of us
into His fullness.
And I hope that we will really consider
this before the Lord tonight.
Do I know the fullness of God?
Do I desire it?
What is my respond to such calling?
Do I have a vision of that calling?
Or to put it another way, probably we
never know that this is our calling.
Probably we think that our calling is just
to go to heaven one day.
To be saved.
That's our calling.
But I want you brothers and sisters to
consider this.
That God's calling is calling every one of
us to His fullness.
Nothing less than His fullness.
He wants us to be full.
Because that's what He is.
Now how will we respond to that calling?
How do you want to respond to that
calling?
And I think that makes all the difference.
So may the Lord challenge us with this.
And may we be before the Lord, and
God willing, tomorrow, we hope, we will share
together on the vision of fullness.
Because we need to have a vision.
And with that vision, we hope we will
respond in the right way.
Shall we pray?
Dear Heavenly Father, we do praise and thank
Thee because Thou art our God.
Thou art the God of fullness.
Everything that is connected, related to Thee is
full.
Must be full.
And our Father, we do praise and thank
Thee that Thou hast called us unto Thy
fullness.
O do create in us a longing, a
desire to know Thy fullness.
And Lord, do give us that determination from
above that whatever it may cost, we want
Thy fullness.
Because this is what Thou hast called us
to, and this is what Thou can be
satisfied with.
So Father, we do pray that at the
very beginning, Thou will exercise our hearts.
Lord, if we do not know what this
calling unto fullness is, then we pray that
Thou will open our eyes and let us
see it.
That we may be drawn to it.
We may seek after it.
That Thou will create a hunger and thirst
in us for it.
Lord, if Thou has already shown us a
little bit of it, then we pray that
Thou will enlarge our vision.
That we may see it fuller and fuller.
And Lord, if Thou has shown us and
yet we turn away from it because we
do not want to go all the way
with You, then Lord, we ask that Thy
love will constrain us.
Oh, that Thy love will constrain us.
That we will press on unto Thyself.
Lord, we do praise and thank Thee because
Thou has called us unto Thyself.
And to Thee we must enter in.
We ask in the name of our Lord
Jesus.