THE LESSON OF THE DESERT HOW WE REACH HIM AT THE OTHER SIDE OF DEATH

THE LESSON OF THE DESERT HOW WE REACH HIM AT THE OTHER SIDE OF DEATH

When the Lord led His disciples into the “desert” (Matthew 14: 13 - 32), they little expected the great things they would learn there. He feeds the poor of the flock with more than enough, from apparently insufficient means. This He can do for you now; and in addition to this, He takes His place in supremacy. When here He was superior

^[p. 63] in the storm; now He is supreme; and the heart that is set on Him leaves all human support to reach Him by His own power. There cannot be communion or company with Him now but at the other side where man is not; that is outside oneself, and all here. The judgment of God is on man. It has been removed for the believer in the death of Christ. You cannot reach Him in that condition on account of which He died (the flesh). It must disappear, as removed judicially, and it is removed in Christ’s death. Hence it is at the other side of His death, and in His resurrection, that we are justified; and it is as we are dead with Him that we are where He is. We must cross the Jordan to eat of the corn of the land.