CONFIDING IN HIS WISDOM

I think it is very interesting to observe the way we are exercised under discipline of any kind. I am assured that our great lack is intimacy with the Lord. I am confounded when I read John 10:14, and see that I am brought into the same kind of intimacy as there is between the Father and the Son. If this intimacy were unbroken we could not doubt His love, and the more assured we are of His love, the more we confide in Him, if we believe that He is wisdom itself. If we confide or have confidingness in Him, we could not open our mind to Him and then accept counsel from any one else. He has our full mind and confidence, and we rest in His wisdom; we have committed ourselves to Him. You are always, so to speak, under the power of the one whom you fully confide in. This is true in a very special way with the Lord; He claims it, because of His great love and interest in you. No one can make the Lord his resource except as he knows Him as Solomon – as wisdom.

JBS Letters Vol.2 p.35

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