If God is to be all in all in your heart and life, I say not only, Allow Him to take His place, and accept all His will, but, thirdly, Trust in His power.  Dear friends, it is “God who worketh to will and to do according to His good pleasure.”  It is “the God of peace,” according to another passage, “who perfects you in every good thing to do His will, working in you what is well-pleasing in His sight.”  You complain of weakness, of feebleness, of emptiness.  Never mind; that is what you are made for—­to be an emptied vessel, in which God can put His fullness and His strength.  Do learn the lesson.  I know it is not easy.  Long after Paul had been an apostle, the Lord Jesus had to come in a very special way to teach him to say, “I do gladly glory in my infirmities.”  Paul was in danger of being exalted, owing to the revelations from Heaven, and Jesus sent him a thorn in the flesh—­yes, Jesus sent it—­a messenger of Satan—­to buffet him.  Paul prayed, and struggled, and wanted to get rid of it.  And Jesus came to him, and said, “It is my doing that you may not be free from that.  You need it.  I will bless you wonderfully in it.”  Paul’s life was changed from that moment in this one respect, and he said, “I never knew it so before, from henceforth I glory in my infirmities; for when I am weak, then am I strong.”  Do you indeed desire God to be all in all?  Learn to glory in your weakness.  Take time to say every day as you bow before God, “The almighty power of God that works in the sun, and the moon, and the stars, and the flowers, is working in me.  It is as sure as that I live.  The almighty power of God is working in me.  I only need to get down, and be quiet; I need to be more submissive, and surrendered to His will; I need to be more trustful, and to allow God to do with me what He will.”  Give God His way with you, and let God work, and He will work mightily.  The deepest quietness has often been proved to be the inspiration for the highest action.  It has been seen in the experience of many of God’s saints, and it is just the experience we need,—­that in the quietness of surrender and faith, God’s working has been made manifest.

Fourthly:  If God is to be all in all, sacrifice everything for His kingdom and glory.  “That God may be all in all.”  This is such a noble, glorious, holy aim that Christ said, “For this I will give my life.  For this I will give my all, even to the death of the cross.  For this I will give myself.”  If it was worth that to Christ, is it worth less to you?  If one had asked Jesus of Nazareth, “What is it Thou hast a body for; what is to Thee the highest use of the body?” He would have said, “The use and the glory of my body is that I can give it a sacrifice to God.  That is every thing.”  What is the use of having a mind; and what is the use of having money; and what is the use of having children?  That I can give them to God; for God must be all in all in everything.  I pray God that He may give