ETERNAL TIES

ETERNAL TIES

I am sure the more separate we are from the world and worldly ties the more we find in christians, and thus we are compensated in a manifold degree. It is an immense thing to be forming ties of eternal friendship here where everything is so fleeting; any nearness we have to the Lord now we shall retain for ever, and the divine link we have with one another we shall retain for ever. Nothing of Christ is or can be lost. I sometimes feel how little we cultivate, like the husbandman, for the future. The more I dwell on the calling of a christian the more wonderful it is to ^[p. 150] me. To live Christ here instead of Adam. The Holy Spirit in me connecting me with Christ gone to the Father. When I look to God’s side this is ever true and as walking down here He leads me to walk as He walked. How this expands as we contemplate it! Christ my life where He is with the Father - and His grace enabling me to act here as He acted, until the journey is over, and then I shall be unhinderedly in His life. May we press on more to it!