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“I AM WITH YOU”
C. S. Elliott
This section refers to the time just before the Lord was taken
up. It is a precious matter for our souls that the Lord Jesus
went into death for us. Then He was raised by the glory of the
Father, and here He was comforting the hearts of His disciples
before being taken from them.
The Lord Jesus knows just what is needed for every heart—
what is needed for each of us at this time. He has arranged for
us to be together in this way in His love and wisdom because
He would speak to our hearts. He has spoken in the past but
He delights to speak to us afresh.
It has pleased Him in His goodness to take our sister to
Himself. It is blessed to think of the way He preserved her
through the years in His testimony. He had begun a work in
her, as Paul says, “He who has begun in you a good work will
complete
it unto Jesus Christ’s day”, Philippians l: 6. He will do the same
with each one of us if we are obedient to the word. Romans
10: 8, 9 speaks of the word being in our mouth and in our
hearts, “the word of faith, which we preach—that if thou shalt
confess with thy mouth Jesus as Lord, and shalt believe in
thine heart that God has raised him from among the dead,
thou shalt be saved”. Our sister did that. She confessed and
she believed, and she was saved, and the Lord preserved her
all the way through. In spite of the difficult setting in which we
are, the Lord is great enough to preserve us all the way
through so that we may be here for His pleasure.
He says, “All power has been given me in heaven and upon
earth”. This is to sink into our hearts, that all power has been