LOVE AND WISDOM

LOVE AND WISDOM

Subjection to His will is everything. The path of wisdom is pleasantness and peace, and surely we could not have more than that. We very slowly get to wisdom — His wisdom in each arrangement for us. Paul prayed three times before he got to the wisdom of his suffering; and when he got to it, he could say: “I take pleasure” in the very thing he had desired so earnestly to have removed. Love is God’s motive in everything, but “in wisdom hath he made them all”. Wisdom therefore “is the principal thing; ... and with all thy getting, get understanding” (Proverbs 4: 7). We are often tried now, because we do not see the wisdom of God’s ordering for us.

I am allowed in His grace to be out at meetings almost every evening. I have been deeply interested in setting forth what our blessed Lord is to the church — the Head. I think I used to dwell more on what we are to Him. Both are very interesting, but what He is to us is the greatest. The Lord cheer your heart much in deepening acquaintance with Himself. Be like Ruth — “Where thou goest, I will go”. You cannot do without Him or be without Him. Oh, for more personal attachment to Him! And then how settled and assured the heart is when we know that we are united to Him where He is.

In the early mornings it is a privilege to speak of you and others before the Lord.