A bottle may be submerged in the waters of a fountain. But if the cork is not removed, the holder may wait indefinitely and at last carry it away empty. In accord with this similie, multitudes of truly spiritual believers are, as it were, immersed in the omnipotence of God; it presses them on every side. There is a longing for it’s experience and a belief that it should be theirs and a readiness to receive, these things being the witness of their spirits to the truth which the Holy Spirit has unfolded in the Word. Yet, because their minds have been “holden” as they have read the Word, the simplicity and the glory if this truth has not dawned upon them. Do we not need, indeed, continually to pray with deep heart-humility that “the eyes of our mind may be enlightened” (Ephesians 1:18)?
— John A. MacMillan, The Authority of the Believer
