WHERE JESUS REIGNS ALONE

WHERE JESUS REIGNS ALONE

I trust the Lord will send a word of help to you. Like many others, you are like Abram, quite sure of the promised Seed — Christ — but, like him, Christ has been in your heart a good while before the day of weaning — that is, before He is recognised as ruling, acting for Himself — there is no feast, no acknowledgment of His title as Heir. He is through grace in your heart, but He is not sufficient for you, you have not set Him on the throne, so that Ishmael is cast out, and He occupies every place in your heart! When this is so, you can keep high festival in joyous testimony to the fact. Till then you are like a young bird, you can hop from branch to branch, but you are not ready to take the wide expanse of the firmament, satisfied and safe in the power within you: He that “drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; ... shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life” (John 4: 14). That is a great word — “in him”!

^[p. 234] I was highly favoured in being used to lead you into such happiness; once a peculiar happiness is tasted of — and none so great or so peculiar as that of satisfaction in Christ — sitting under His shadow with great delight: no inferior happiness can be tolerated, especially if it would attempt to be a substitute for the other. As the little hymn says:

‘Where Christ is only heard to speak,
Where Jesus reigns alone.’