GUIDANCE AND COMMUNION

GUIDANCE AND COMMUNION

As to guidance, the only way to get it is to be so near Himself, that your own mind is in abeyance because His mind rules, as the queen of Sheba found in the presence of Solomon. I used to study this passage and that passage to obtain light. I see now that if I were really near Him beholding His glory (2 Corinthians 3: 18), I should be transformed, should come from Him so impressed with Himself that His interests would, as it were, naturally control me, and the better I know the transcendent blessedness of being near Him, the more shall I bear about in my body the dying of Jesus, and seek to be free of any hindrance in myself.

As to communion, it is deeply interesting the line of things which interest the Lord at any given time. To be in concert with Him touching them I should call communion. A child likes to come into his father’s study often to be near his father; but by degrees he becomes interested in what the father speaks of. The great hindrance with us is that the works of God in the first creation (the seen things), so invite our (as we think) legitimate attention that we are not ready for the things that are unseen.