KNOWLEDGE WITHOUT POWER

KNOWLEDGE WITHOUT POWER

In a day of knowledge without power, there is a danger of assuming to be where one is not really. With many, though there be the knowledge of truth, the first step is hardly entered on. It is done. David has the head of Goliath in his hand. Until that is apprehended, the second step cannot be known, and that is, the intimacy which subsists between my Saviour and me. This I illustrate by the link between Jonathan and David, and this blessed intimacy is set forth in John 10: 14, 15. Everything else for me grows out of this intimacy — not only the apprehension of all that He was on the earth, and how He can sympathise with me in my path here; but all that He is now, and that I am called into communion with Him there.

‘And thus Thy deep perfections
Much better should I know,
And with adoring fervour
In this Thy nature grow.’ (51:5)

If we do not reach this intimacy, it is only His service for us, and not His interests, which occupies our hearts. All we look for is His succour in our trials here, as if we were not called to represent Him here on earth, as those united to Him in His exaltation.