Fullness of God

Someone asked T.Austin Sparks what it would take to get the fullness of God in his/her life.  Austin pretty much thought about it and wrote a book on it.  I like what he said and I will pass it on to you.
There are three things essential to a full Christian life he said. First, the realization that God is concerned with the accomplishment of something worthy of Himself.  He said, "we will not get very far toward a full Christian life, or a life with God, until it breaks upon us and takes hold of us that God is really concerned with the accomplishment of something worthy of Himself. What a grand statement, Austin...bravo! 
The second thing is that people shall become aware of what that great something in the heart of God is, what it is that God is so concerned with, and then, and then, and then, that they shall be moved to co-operate with Him in it.  That is an essential to a life of fullness with God, that we His people shall come to see what it is that He is really is set upon, what it is that will really be worthy of Himself, and, more than that, that we shall become so deeply moved about this matter as to co-operate with Him in it.
The third thing that we are to recognize is that this object in the heart of God and this co-operation with Him by His people involves very real conflict and cost, and that His people must face that and be ready to accept it.
Austin is writing this article using the book of Nehemiah. Nehemiah was the last historic book of the Old Testament, and Nehemiah was the last great man of the Old Testament, who finds himself contemporary with terrible spiritual decline. He also found that God is willing and wanting to act in that nation according to His will and desire to bring restoration and revival to the Jewish people who are deep in idolatry.
I think many people in contemporary America, or Britain or wherever feel that the time has gone and conditions are too bad, and we can hope for nothing very much in view of the our situation here and around the world; but this book and this man, administer a very sound rebuke to any such pessimism.  As a matter of fact, Nehemiah rebukes some men who want to talk to him by explaining to them that he can't stop or be side tracked because God has him on assignment.  Put your ear to the window of history and listen to what Nehemiah said to them, I quote it from Neh. 6:3...."I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?"  Is that awesome....Call us to your purpose Lord and then we can say to temptation, why should I stop to talk to you I am to busy doing God's stuff.