To ask Him to help us to do His work is a great mistake. If it is the LORD'S work, then it is HE who is doing it.
He never gives His own work into our hands. The LORD does not give His work to you or to me.
We are but His employees, like the workman who uses his tools. A tool never thinks out what it should do. It simply yields to the hand of its master.
He has the plan, He has the skill and the strength, and the tool is only expressing what is in the mind of the workman.
The responsibility lies with HIM. The tool is only allowed to do what the master wants to do through his instrument.
Imagine an instrument getting up in the morning determined to do this or that, hoping the master would help it.
This is not the right attitude. Let us think of the tool which takes this attitude and says: “Now Master, you know what You will do.
You have the plan. You know how You will work, and at what time You will do it.
I am here at Your disposal. I am willing to serve You in any way You please.
I am altogether consecrated to You and Your purpose. I look to You concerning the work which lies before us.
You must be the wisdom, the strength and the power of endurance behind me.
If I should become blunt, You can sharpen me again. Everything depends upon You, but I am one with You.
This is a very simple illustration of the truth.
That was exactly the relationship of the LORD Jesus with His Father. He said: “My Father works even until now, and I work.”
He only worked because His Father worked.
He also said: “The works which the Father has given me… the same works I do.”
The link between Him and the Father was the Holy Spirit. He brought about that marvelous oneness.
Now we are under the same anointing. That anointing is the guarantee for meeting every need to which we are called, and to do it at the right time.
When we are under the anointing, which brings us into oneness with our LORD Jesus Christ in the heavenlies, there is no need to get into a state of anxiety concerning ‘our works’.
The Holy Spirit will come in and show us where we have to act as under the LORD'S commission, and where we have to stand back and wait - in spite of apparent need and pressure which comes upon us - because the LORD'S time has not yet come to meet that need.
~T. Austin Sparks~