EXTRACTS
“No one could be more filled than He with tender love towards the two or three in a locality who respond to His heart. Although few in number, they are like green oases in the middle of the surrounding barrenness. He would like to perfect each little meeting so that the verdure, so to speak, becomes more and more luxuriant, so that His eye can rest with more satisfaction on each little gathering”.
J. Taylor (N.S. Vol. 31 p.182)
“You are in the midst of immensity, and yet finiteness, so that we are not lost in it; but we are filled unto all the fulness of God. We are in immensity as to domain, and yet it is finite, which is from our side because it is measurable—length, breadth, depth, and height. Filled even unto all the fulness of God involves infiniteness. We have finite thoughts as regards our own ability to know the breadth and length and depth and height; but to be filled unto all the fulness of God means that I am steady in the full revelation of God in Christ; I am not lost in it. Christ is the centre of the whole scene so that I am steady there but filled, no void anywhere, “Filled even to all the fulness of God”.
J. Taylor (N.S. Vol. 50 p.412)
“What a thing it is to be able to say to people, ‘What you dread, I accept’; you dread to die, because when you die you lose everything. I accept death, and by it I gain everything. The acceptance of death to the christian means deliverance from everything down here. A dead man is free from all he has been in. If I accept death, I am free of it all. I would not accept death, if I did not see something the other side of it”.
F. E. Raven (N.S. Vol. 8 p.346)
“What is human life without the Lord? It is just a vapour; it will soon be all over and forgotten. Surely we do not want to live lives like that! We bring substance into our lives by bringing the Lord and His will into them. Then our life is not a vapour; there is something there that will have value for the world to come, and even for eternity”.
C. A. Coates (“Outline of the Epistle of James”, p.32)