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This is more than resignation. She’s not just accepting the north
wind. She’s inviting the north wind to blow. She desires whatever
will please him. The disposition is that it doesn’t matter. If there’s
no blowing, there’s no flowing. As the indispensable condition is
childlikeness, the indispensable disposition is absolute surrender.

What is the goal of all of this? John 12:20&21, “Now there were
certain Greeks among those who were going up to worship at the
feast; these therefore came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of
Galilee, and began to ask him, saying, ‘Sir, we wish to see Jesus.’”
First there’s childlikeness, then there’s surrender and now is the
redemptive part. The Greeks came to Philip and said, “We want to
see Jesus.” Was it curiosity? Why did they come? Did they come
to argue? We don’t know. Were they really seeking the Lord?
Perhaps. The only thing God calls attention to is the response of
Jesus. When you look at it with our physical eyes it looks like He
ignored them. He never went out to talk to them. He only talked to
the disciples. Jesus explained to the disciples about redemptive
living.

John 12:27&28, “’Now My soul has become troubled; and what
shall I say, ‘Father, save Me from this hour’? But for this purpose I
came to this hour. Father, glorify Thy name.’ There came therefore
a voice out of heaven, ‘I have both glorified it. And will glorify it
again.’” Jesus always talked about the cross as His “hour”. He said
that My hour has not yet come. He always thought about the hour.
But in this prayer He said, “My soul is troubled. What shall I say?
Deliver Me from this hour? For this cause I came to this hour.
Father, glorify Thy name.”

Every hour in the life of Jesus He said, “Glorify Thy name.” I
choose verses every chance I get. I have a year verse and I have a
life verse and I have a birthday verse; every chance I get I get a
verse. This is my life verse. Something comes into my life, a north
wind or a south wind, what shall I say, “Deliver me from this hour?
For this cause I came to this hour. Father, glorify Thy name.”