CHRIST IN GLORY

CHRIST IN GLORY

There are two actions of the Spirit of God in John 4 and John 7. The one making me superior to all the cravings of nature: by the other I am independent of the best contributions of the earth, which were celebrated in the feast of tabernacles. “If any one thirst, let him come to me”. (John 7: 37) I connect this with 2 Corinthians 3 and 2 Corinthians 4. The more I look at Jesus on earth, the more I feel my disparity. But the more I look at Christ in the glory of God, the more the disparity disappears, because the Spirit is transforming me to the same image. This is very wonderful! There is an amazing effect of beholding the Lord’s glory. You may be transformed from some old taste without even feeling it; but you are transformed! and you could not tell how. It is not the process that occupies you, but you are engrossed with the Lord, and though you do not know how, you are transformed by what engrossed you. We are united to the glorified Christ where He is at home, and, blessed be God, that is our home, our life is there. Through Him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. We come near in Christ’s blessedness. This would give power. I mourn that there is so little power. “Without me ye can do nothing”. (John 15: 5) So little of Christ asserting His place in one, so that the old garment is rent, and “the mantle of Elijah” is adopted instead.

^[p. 167] There is so little power that young converts have little to encourage them. The apostles could say: We were an “ensample unto you to follow us”. (2 Thessalonians 3: 9) It is an immense thing when one feels distinctly that one’s great work now is to give Christ every place: to determine everything by Him as if He were the last Man and the only One.