IN CONCERT WITH HIM

IN CONCERT WITH HIM

It is only a wonder to me that we have so little suffering in the world where our Lord has been refused a place. The more we are attached to Him, the less can we like to be anything where He was refused. It grieves one even to think of being prominent where He was cast out.

It is interesting to see that in Luke 24 He was known to them in breaking of bread, not that I think that was the Lord’s supper, but that the act which represented His death should be the occasion of making Himself known to them as alive from the dead is very touching. The more I enter into His death here, the more do I know Him as alive from the dead. His own presence fashions us.

Your hearts might burn within you, in hearing His word, and still there might be no practical concert with ^[p. 286] Him; but let Him be near you, and how readily you are led and enabled to do the very thing that He is doing at the time.

You ask me, What do I gain or what is the answer to my urging my heart to long after Him? Well, I find that in proportion as I do, He assures my heart that there is full resource for it. But this is not once and for ever, it must be continually kept up. I have still to count all things dung that I may win Christ. I think it is a very happy exercise or fruition to be able to look forward to nothing but the Lord’s presence. One is so ready naturally to see whether there is anything pleasant in expectation, and to this, of every shade and degree, I study to answer — the Lord’s presence. May you know the light and presence of His glory.