OUR NEW CENTRE

OUR NEW CENTRE

I am persuaded that we do not realise that we are on the earth where Christ was rejected. The desire of many and the tendency of all is to connect Christ with ourselves on this earth, instead of accepting that we are connected with Him in heaven.... The Lord give us to apprehend the reality of our true position; that we are outside this scene when we are in our true place. We are thankful that Christ was here, and that He made a pathway through this scene, but we have properly to come from Him in glory to learn that path and to find His succour in it.

I spoke on Acts 7: 55 — the new start; our new Centre — Jesus in the glory of God. I dwelt first on Stephen’s own position, then on the testimony, and then the suffering of the witness.... I try to realise more and more the fact of being with the Lord. We are so ready to look for and confine Him to our need, instead of being His friends, and thus knowing what our Lord doeth. The Lord grant that you may enter on this new year with a sense of nearness and confidence in Himself, so that you may be not only sustained by Him, but that you may know more and more what it is to be His friend.

We are given a Person. Better than everything else. Almighty power could not give me anything greater.