IGNORANCE OF CHRISTIAN POSITION

IGNORANCE OF CHRISTIAN POSITION

The rending of ties here and there is very harassing, but the heart-sorrow part to me is the ignorance of the Christian position which is betrayed at every point. Many, though converted, are not much beyond Exodus 12 in their souls though well versed in word as to the truths generally held by brethren. I do not believe that many (hitherto among us) apprehend in living faith that they are sons of God and that they belong to the divine circle. A natural man would understand what it is to belong to the royal circle, but ^[p. 107] the natural mind could not take in the vastness of the divine circle outside and beyond all human conception. I feel as if we should have to begin again from conversion up. The impression left on me by the way some speak of new birth is that they do not know what it is. Surely it is God’s work and entirely independent of man. The first work is creation. He said, “Let there be light: and there was light” (Genesis 1: 3). So it is as to His work in the soul.