OUT OF DEATH INTO LIFE

OUT OF DEATH INTO LIFE

The Lord be praised for His loving kindness in continuing you here with us. The Lord bless you both that you may be more and more for Him here and in every way a greater help and comfort to each of His own. I can quite sympathise with you in the feeling that it is easier to go to Him than to stay here and glorify Him. It is a consolation that as we feel our weakness the more truly dependent we are. The very helplessness of the child obtains the security of the mother’s arms. When we are weak then are we strong.

The more He endears Himself to our hearts the more drawn are we to Him where He is and the more detached from this place where He is not. It is very marked the way the heart is weaned from a place when the object of it has left it, but it is much more weaned when it truly follows Him to the place where He is. His absence detaches you from this place while His presence in heaven attaches you to heaven because He is there.

I was preaching last evening from Matthew 12: 38. Jonah and Solomon. Christ went down into the depth of the judgment on us. He has risen out of it and is greater than Solomon. When by faith we apprehend that He has opened out the way of life for us through His death, and that we are clear of all on our own side, we then know Him on His own side in glory, the greater than Solomon, and as we do, there is no spirit left in us. He was in the lowest place for us; as we through faith in His death pass out of death, we are in His life, and we ^[p. 184] learn the great truth that as he is so are we in this world; but we must be out of the one before we can be in the other.

The Lord bless you much, may your heart enjoy communion with Him; and for this you must be outside of old things.