GOD'S PURPOSE FOR US

GOD’S PURPOSE FOR US

The more I see what christianity is in the mind of God, the more I feel how little we have entered into the magnitude of it. In the consecration of Aaron and his sons we get a type of the church, and the difference between the altar where the sacrifices were offered and the door of the tabernacle. The altar is, in type, where Christ died. Many believers never get beyond the altar; that is, all that Christ accomplished here for us. They are occupied with the work done for them. But at the door of the tabernacle you are not occupied about yourself at all, you appropriate the perfection and blessedness of Christ as set forth there.

There are two ministries, one is the grace of God, the other the purpose of God for His children. Alas! how few are up to His purpose. But it is inconceivable blessing to be united by His Spirit to the Lord Jesus Christ in glory. If we were answering to His purpose, we should know His love and be filled into the fulness of God. The unfailing mark of union with Christ is that all His interests here are ours in His absence. We are called like the remnant to be characterised by the brightest trait of the original, that is, fidelity to Christ. We must begin at the beginning, and learn to come to Him as the living Stone, the Son of the living God. When we find that He is the centre of everything to us His interests engage our hearts.