us such a sight of His kingdom, and His glory, that everything else may disappear.  Then, if you had ten thousand lives, you would say, “This is the beauty and the worth of life, ‘that God may be all in all’ to me, and that I may prove to men that God is more than everything, that life is only worth living as it is given to God to fill.”  Do let us sacrifice everything for His kingdom and glory.  Begin to live day by day with the prayer, “My God, I am given up to Thee.  Be Thou my all in all.”  You say, “Am I able to realize that?” Yes, in this way:  Let the Holy Spirit dwell in you; let the Holy Spirit burn in you as a fire, and burn in you with unutterable groanings, crying unto God, Himself to reveal His presence and His will in you.  In the eighth of Romans, Paul spoke about the groanings of the whole creation.  And what is the whole creation groaning for?  For the redemption, the glorious liberty of the children of God.  And I am persuaded that was what Paul meant when he spoke of the groanings of the Holy Spirit—­the unutterable groanings for the coming time of glory when God should be all in all.  Christians, sacrifice your time; sacrifice your interests; sacrifice your heart’s best powers in praying, and desiring, and crying that “God may be all in all.”

And lastly:  if God is to be all in all, wait continually on Him all the day.  My first point had reference to giving God His place; but I want to bring this out more pointedly in conclusion.  Wait continually on God all the day.  If you are to do that, you must live always in His presence.  That is what we have been redeemed for.  Do we not read in the Epistle to the Hebrews, “Let us draw near within the veil, through the blood, where the high priest is?” The holy place in which we are to live in the heavens is the immediate presence of God.  The abiding presence of God is certainly the heritage of every child of God, as that the sun shines.  The Father never hides His face from His child.  Sin hides it, and unbelief hides it, but the Father lets His love shine all the day on the face of His children.  The sun is shining day and night.  Your sun shall never go down.  Begin to seek for this.  Come and live in the presence of God.  There is indeed an abiding place in His presence, in the secret of His pavilion, of which some one has sung very beautifully: 

  With me, wheresoe’er I wander,
  That great Presence goes;
  That unutterable gladness,
  Undisturbed repose.

  Everywhere, the blessed stillness
  Of that Holy Place;
  Stillness of the love that worships,
  Dumb before His face.