EXTRACTS

Rem. We cannot count on parental care unless we are separate.

CAC That is an important point. We leave the resources of Egypt like the children of Israel, but then we find God. God could sustain them where there was no natural resource; they had bread from heaven and the rock to drink from; their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell. When we come out we can come into and enjoy this wonderful reciprocity—“I will be their God, and they shall be to me a people”; God is delighting in His people and His people are delighting in Him.

Rem. There is the persecution side.

CAC Undoubtedly, but it is all gain because you begin to prove for the first time that God is a reality. No young believer finds his feet till he has proved God for himself. It is a wonderful thing to find that God is as good as His word. You test Him and you will see. The Lord says, “Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you”, Matthew 6: 33. If you are on that line you are set to prove how He can preserve and keep you; all these things are added to you, you have not lost anything, you have gained. J.B.S. used to say, ‘Peter said, We have left all and followed Thee. Yes, Peter, and you did very well by it!’.

C. A. Coates (‘Outline of Second Corinthians’, p.291)

God’s ways are behind the scenes, but He moves all the scenes that He is behind. We have to learn this, and let Him work, and not think much of man’s busy movements; they will accomplish God’s end. The rest of them all perish and disappear. We have only peacefully to do His will.

J. N. Darby

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