NO SHADE

NO SHADE

It is wonderful how fuller light reveals imperfections which were unseen before, and when it is God’s light it has a double action. At one and the same time it engages me with itself, while it dissociates me from that which it exposes and repels. The word is the instrument by which light comes in and it has a wondrous action, symbolised in the hands of our Lord by the washing of the feet. And we shall find that the word applied according to the Lord’s mind, and as His service now, has a most peculiar and priceless action on us. It separates us from the defilement unto Him who is above all defilement; and we are longing to get into retirement that our souls may expand in the peculiarity and blessedness of this divine action.

The Lord give us to be very conscious when any shade occurs between our soul and Him! He, blessed be His name, would always remove it. Read the end of Hebrews 4. What is the difference between relief and sympathy? The Lord effects relief by His power at any distance; but to express His sympathy He must be personally near to you. It is thus He endears Himself to your heart. You learn His power as He relieves you, but you learn Himself in His sympathy.

I believe the cause of decline amongst us is to be attributed to occupation with truth without a corresponding personal intercourse with the Lord.