C.H. Mackintosh was a writer who wrote a number of years ago, but he wrote with such depth and spiritual insight that one cannot read his writings without being gripped by his divine insights. The following comes from one of his classics entitled, “The All-Sufficiency of Christ.”
When once the soul has been brought to feel the reality of its condition before God – its utter and hopeless bankruptcy, there can be no rest until the Holy Spirit reveals a full and an all-sufficient Christ to the heart. The only possible answer to total ruin is God’s perfect remedy.
The true secret of peace is, to get to the very end of a helpless, worthless self, and there find an all-sufficient Christ as God’s provision for our very deepest need. This truly is rest – a rest which can never be disturbed. There may be sorrow, pressure, conflict, ups and downs, all sorts of trials and difficulties: but when a soul is really brought by God’s Spirit to see the end of self, and to rest in a full Christ, it finds a peace which can never be interrupted.
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