GROWTH IN CHRIST

GROWTH IN CHRIST

When I know the Lord Jesus Christ as my Saviour, I am to Him as Jonathan was to David, when Goliath was slain, and his head in David’s hand. I strip myself to make much of Him. I love much because I am forgiven much. This is the alabaster box in Luke 7.

When I know my Saviour as the One whose “left hand is under my head, and his right hand doth embrace me” (Song of Songs 2: 6), when He is the life and cheer of my heart, I long for association with Him, I would fain leave the earth, where He is not, for the place (heaven) where He is. Like Ruth, my heart says, “Where thou goest I will go”. I not only spend my property to honour Him, but I long to leave the place where the property is for His place. It is then that I am prepared for the great truth that I am united to Him in heaven. I could have no greater solace, no greater satisfaction to the love that He has awakened in my heart than the consciousness that I am united to Him. This is the climax; this crowns all. I am now in company with all His own — the bride; for ever indissolubly joined to Him in a scene entirely suited to Him, where nothing could occur to mar my happiness. And now I am so restful, so assured of the fulness of my relationship that I ^[p. 94] am found down here in the spirit of a faithful wife, doing His pleasure in the smallest details in His house.