DEPENDENCE AND EXPECTING HIM

DEPENDENCE AND EXPECTING HIM

He that believeth shall not make haste. I suppose the more truly we are walking with the Lord, the more consciously dependent we are; we come in contact with things we do not venture to alter ourselves, but we wait on God to see what He will do. I think we are more ready to look for the care of the Father than for the sympathy of Christ. If we were not kept waiting there would be no need for sympathy, that is the sense of how He feels the trial. How beautiful was the Lord’s dependence! As a rule we never think of dependence when we have the means to do anything that we wish. The blessed Lord had all means and yet He was ever dependent. His means were God’s means, and He only used them as God desired. A great lesson for us. I feel as to the present time, “To whom much is given of him much is required”. Things that would have been suffered in other Christians will not be suffered in us.

^[p. 141] It is so much with us in this day like the two and a half tribes, accepting the heavenly truth, and even suffering for it, but not enjoying it, because the heart is engrossed with our natural interests on this side Jordan. We some-times expect that a thing which has begun badly will end well, but that which is crooked cannot be made straight. We must begin over again like the Nazarite.

May we live each day as if it were our last day down here. I mean in a two-fold way — on the one hand knowing the sufficiency of Christ as if He were at the door, and on the other, in simple readiness for Him.

It is a wonderful thing to be part of the bride of Christ where the man of this day has rejected Him. The weak thing in man’s eye confounds that which is mighty. May each of us be so true to Him that He can confide His present mind to us, not only for our benefit but for His pleasure. It is a great thing even to have such a purpose before our hearts.