by T. Austin-Sparks
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What the Lord will do in "such a time as this", what He seeks to do, is to find a people, a vessel in the midst of His people, the majority of whom are in spiritual declension and far removed from what He would have and where He would have them in such a time, an instrument knowing Him in the power of His mighty Life in a spiritual way in the very presence of death. Let me emphasise: to know that Life in a spiritual way. It is there that we have to know it first. In a spiritual way it can be known right in the very presence of death, right in the very activity of death and right in the very triumph of death in other connections. That is the marvel. God needs an instrument like that, knowing right in the very centre of their being the power of His Life when everything argues that death triumphs, the enemy is on the throne, but you cannot accept it. If you went out in the realm of your reason, you would have to accept it and capitulate, but while you keep in touch with God, you cannot.
