I've been reading a Lenten series through YouVersion these last few weeks, and today this came through from Watchman Nee--a writer from China who I did not understand when I tried to read him 30 years ago. But now I begin to see what he was saying. Like John of the Cross. And Teresa of Avila. And John Coe. The fact that I am now in my 60's in not lost on me here. Until God has brought us through "difficult and painful ways", it is hard to see where He is taking us. Until the Spirit has swept the heart clean of the residue of the Old Person--or at least a great portion of it--and replaced it with Himself, it is impossible to experience the miracle of resurrection in your own soul. Now I see a glimmer of what is to come and it urges me on to surrender more and more of myself. Surrender to God is, in the end, the only way to Life. "God must bring us to a point - I cannot tell you how it will be, but He will do it - where, through a deep and dark experi