THE BOND AND THE PROVISION

THE BOND AND THE PROVISION

I feel how little one enters into what the church is to Christ. How one uses words and scarcely seizes the meaning of them. Such as ‘members of the body, of his flesh, and of his bones’; and to think that the bond which unites us is the Holy Spirit!

If we were bound together by only a rope we could tolerate many things which the exquisite nature of our bond cannot endure. What is that which has the greatest unity and yet a unity which is most easily disturbed, and in which distances most easily occur?

We little know what is before us each day, and therefore we should go forth stored with manna — the grace of Christ, which is adequate for every contingency of the day — the provision before the need, for ‘prevention is better than cure’, and, this, blessed be His name! is the manner of His grace to us.

Dependence in some form is the great lesson of our wilderness life.