DEPENDENCE

^[p. 149] DEPENDENCE

When we are in any measure dependent on the Lord we are cheered on by His gracious care and foresight for us, which we should not have noticed if we had not been dependent on Him. He helps us out of our infirmities that we may be in company with Him in the holy place. We are sometimes satisfied with His help down here, but He helps us in order that He may lift us up to where He is Himself. He was down here in our circumstances, He can and does help us through them, but He desires to have us in company with Himself outside them. Peter in Matthew 14 desired to be with Him, and the Lord said to him, “Come”, that is His word now to us, as in Song of Songs 2: 10.

Because of my infirmity I require His grace and mercy where I am . He is able to help me for He was once here; but He is above everything now and He would have me to know Him where there are no winds and waves and to enjoy Him there. May each of us answer to His love more and more as we apprehend by the Spirit what it is to be with Him where He is, and to set our affections there!