THE RESOURCE IN DIFFICULT DAYS, ETC.

THE RESOURCE IN DIFFICULT DAYS, ETC.

The more I see and the more I learn, the more I am assured that hardly any one is up to the full Christian state; you are either of the man who rejected Christ, or you are of Christ. If you try to effect a compromise you are anti-Christian, and that is the religion of Christendom, sad to say. False Christianity and the world must both be surmounted before you are in the realisation of eternal life. It is an out-of-the-world condition of things.

I spoke from 2 Timothy 3: 10 — The resource in difficult days. When everything is ruined in the hands of man, our only resource is to rise to the height of the Lord’s mind, and learn directly from Himself through the word His mind and pleasure for the period.

^[p. 217] I was pleased to see ————— so calm and restful in the presence of the shadow of death; for, however sure we are of the gain of the loved one who is gone to the Lord, yet there is a blank here which never can be filled up, though through the Lord’s sympathy we may be fully borne above it, and the nearer the tie the greater the wrench. Death in itself is a terrible thing — the creature after that order gone! We should gain much if we were more conscious of the blank here because of the absence of our Lord, for if we felt it rightly we should avail ourselves of the mode by which He relieves us, which we find in John 14, His provision for us during His absence. I divide John’s gospel into two parts. From chapter 3 to 10 that which relates to us, from chapter 13 to 17 how we are to be here for Christ during His absence. Study them.