God's Right to Do As He Pleases

From ‘Others May, You Cannot’

“Make up your mind that God is an infinite sovereign, and has the right to do as He pleases with his own. He may not explain to you a thousand things which puzzle you in his dealings with you. But if you absolutely sell yourself to be his slave, he will wrap you up in jealous love, and bestow upon you many blessings which come to those who are in the inner circle.

“Settle it forever, then, that you are to deal directly with the Holy Spirit, and that He is to have the privilege of tying your tongue, or chaining your hand, or closing your eyes, in ways that he does not seem to use with others.

“Now when you are so possessed with the living God that you are, in your secret heart, pleased and delighted over this peculiar, personal, private, jealous guardianship and management of the Holy Spirit over your life, you will have found the vestibule of heaven.”

—George Douglas Watson (1845–1924)