[AC3-general] the person you live with, your wife, your husband. Drop the mask.

[Depue <vam...@le...>]

Ly come upon
and remain

upon the Lord Jesus because He was the Lamb. Had the Lord Jesus had any
other disposition than that of the
Lamb--humility, submissiveness and self-surrender--the Dove
could never have rested on Him. Being herself
so gentle, she would have been frightened away had not Jesus been meek
and lowly in heart. Here, then, we have pictured for us the condition upon which the same Holy Spirit can come upon us and abide upon us. The Dove can only abide upon us as we are willing to be as the Lamb. How impossible
that He should rest upon us while self is unbroken! The manifestations of the unbroken self are the direct opposite of the gentleness of the Dove. Read again

in Galatians 5 the ninefold fruit of the Spirit ("love, joy, peace,
long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, self-control") with which
the Dove longs to fill us! Then contrast it with

the ugly works of the flesh (the N.T. name for the
unbroken self) in the same chapter. It is the contrast of the snarling wolf with the gentle dove! The Disposition of
the Lamb. How clear, then, that the Holy Spirit will only come upon us
and remain upon us as we are willing to be as the Lamb on each point on which
He will convict us! And nothing is so searching and humbling as to look
at the Lamb on His way to
Calvary for us and to be shown in how many points we have been unwilling to take the position of the lamb for Him. Look at Him for a moment as the Lamb. He was the simple Lamb. A lamb is the simplest of God's creatures.
It has no schemes or plans for helping itself--it exists in helplessness and simplicity.