SUBJECTION TO THE HEAD

SUBJECTION TO THE HEAD

It is very cheering that you are sensible of receiving from the Lord the very portion of help which you feel you needed. It is very interesting the way He supplies the word, and then makes us sensible that it is the very word that we need, though before we had received it we could not have stated what we needed, and if we had, we should probably have stated something else. I am sure a direct consciousness of holding the Head will be a great help to one of your energetic nature. To be under the direction of Himself as the source of all wisdom and power will be a great gain to you.

The energy may not be less, but it will be subject to Him, and not called out merely by the opportunity or case of need.

And not this only, but the more you grow in acquaintance with the resource you have in the use of it, the more you will like to use it, and the very use of it will be more to you than the gain from the use of it. I mean that you will enjoy more turning to the Lord in the relation of Head, because of the nearness and intimacy with Him which it entails, than even the help which you obtain from Him. So that though you want help and counsel, you turn to Him more for the favour of having such a bond to Him than for the gain which you acquire from it. And as this goes on you will before long be more a priest than a Levite; not that you will lose the latter service; on the contrary, the Levitical service will be of a deeper character as you enter more profoundly on the priestly.

A great deal of truth may be known and yet the mystery of God may not be known as a reality to oneself. I have been writing on being united to Christ. What an immensity there is in that wondrous fact! How well one could retire, like your dear husband, from all sounds ^[p. 190] here, and be rapt in deep thankfulness while meditating on it.