FEBRUARY 8TH, 1902

FEBRUARY 8TH, 1902

We had a good reading on Tuesday; of course the thought of eternal life became prominent, but I think more are beginning to look at it in its moral light rather than in the material way in which it had so long been regarded. It appears to me that to look at it as a certain substantive thing received through faith deprives it of all reality. The work of God in the soul of a believer will undoubtedly result in experience and practice, but it does not affect the truth that the man is still subject to death. The Lord says in John 6, “I will raise him up at the last day”. This hardly looks like a man having eternal life in himself. On the other hand, all the conditions of life, all that which is essential to living, never varies, it is unseen and eternal. I wish that it could be indeed said that one lived in the world to come; one is ashamed at the way one is affected by the present world, and I know of nothing that will deliver one’s soul out of it but the knowledge of the Son of God. It is a mercy that there is a witness to Him in the believer. “Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?” May God in His grace lead us all into this more and more.