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bones strong; and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water whose waters never fail" (Is. 58:6-11).

Stagnation is death. A pool cannot be kept clean and sweet and renewed unless there is an outlet as well as an inlet. It is our business to keep the outlet open and God's business to keep the stream flowing in and through us. Unless you use for the service of others what God has already given to you, you will find it a long, weary road to spiritual understanding.

We cry out and strain every nerve to obtain full understanding, just as sometimes we have heard earnest people, but people wholly ignorant of divine laws, beseech God for the full baptism of "the Holy Spirit" (Lk. 3:16) as in the day of Pentecost. Jesus said, "I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now" (Jn. 16:12). We grow by using for others the light and knowledge we have. We expand, as we go on step-by-step in spiritual insight, until in the fullness of time --- which means when we have grown spiritually to the place where God sees that we are able to bear the many things --- we receive the desire of our hearts, understanding.

Seek your own Lord. Take the light as it is revealed to you, and use it for others, and prove for yourself whether there be Truth in this prophecy of Isaiah, that "then your light shall rise in the darkness