THE LORD CONFIDES HIS MIND TO THE ONE WHO LOVES HIM MOST

THE LORD CONFIDES HIS MIND TO THE ONE WHO LOVES HIM MOST

I hope you have returned to your duties in every way invigorated. May you study to come from the Lord to the smallest detail. I seek for you that you may be so near Him, that when you address yourself to the common things here, He may be even then paramount. I have been much helped lately in seeing that if you come from Him that everything you do is in relation to Him, He is paramount. When we are tried and reduced we go to Him, but when we come from Him everything is done heartily as unto the Lord.

When your leisure comes you can find real rest in visiting, say, one a day; a change of work is often rest. I daresay you find the morning the best time for reading and prayer. It is a great encouragement that it is not to the one who ^[p. 239] works most, nor to the one who reads most, that the Lord confides His mind, but to the one who loves Him most (as Mary Magdalene). It is only near Himself that the human mind is so in abeyance that His mind is in the ascendant. The Lord bless you much and keep you for Himself.

You will, I suppose, return to your own home today, everyway helped and invigorated. The more cheerfully we submit to the claims of duty after a time of recreation, the more we have gained spiritually.

I rejoice that you received nurture from the Lord during my lectures. He not only nurtures but He cherishes; the latter is more the sense of His own presence, like a little bird under the wing of the parent bird. May you daily know both, and thus be much blessed.

I am much afraid that ———— does not distinguish between self-occupation and earnestness. In the former, I have my eye on my own advance. In the latter, I am seeking from Christ.