HERE FOR CHRIST

^[p. 62] HERE FOR CHRIST

May the great thing before your heart be that you are here for Christ. The more fixedly this is before you, the brighter and the happier you will be. No one can be here for the Lord until he knows the blessing that the Lord has accomplished for him. I do not mean that the assurance of salvation is known, but that through Christ’s death you are not only cleared in God’s sight of all that was under the judgment of God, but that you know that you have died with Christ, and thus are at the other side of death, and the man on whom death lay. Knowing this consciously you begin your new history here; you are the Lord’s, your body is His, and as you are near Him, and led by His Spirit, you do not consult your own will or the mind of the flesh, but you consult Him, whose you are; and you are glad to do so, just because it is righteously His due. Secondly, you like to do the will of Him who has so loved you, and does so love you, and as you love Him you keep His commandments; that is, you do His will, and not your own, and thus you are always pleasing Him. May you so love Him that His will may be the control most pleasing to your heart. May He thus bless you much. He has been very gracious to you these many years, and, blessed be His name! He loves to the end.