Abandonment is the key to the inner court, so that he who knows truly how to abandon himself will soon become perfect. We have a German hymn that says the same thing: Ergebung hei t das sch ne Wort. And this morning, there s a wonderful light shining in this place. It s this: that we re learning, slowly, to abandon ourselves. Now, a person, of course, can abandon himself to sin to flesh, to lust, to pride, to sensitiveness, to all the works of the flesh. But the wonderful thing is that we have learned or are learning to abandon ourselves to Jesus, or wholly give ourselves to One who gives Himself to us .
