OVERCOMING

OVERCOMING

It is a privilege peculiar to the present period for us to be permitted by the Lord in His grace to earnestly contend for the faith and not to be ashamed of the testimony. This favour cannot be accorded to us in the world to come; no shame can be connected with display. We can therefore see what an immense loss it is, and irreparable, if through our folly we have become incapable of discerning the path the Lord is taking and of hearing His voice by the Spirit to the churches. In the case of Israel in the wilderness everything was material, and their journeyings simple, as indicated by the movements of the cloud from off the tent of testimony. In our day everything is difficult, by the fact that all is moral. In the case of Israel they were to be ceremonially clean. With us holiness must be the result of communion. We are ^[p. 212] then fitted to behold the glory of the Lord, we can interpret that glory (a kind of wisdom more excellent than that given to a Solomon or a David is given to us), and what is morally in accord with that glory. Hence we are kept in the path of the Lord’s will. In the glory all the light and perfections of God are disclosed, so that no matter what the exercise or pressure upon the soul from the questionings of men, we can view things from the mountain-top, and say, “As for God, his way is perfect”. (Psalm 18: 30) Light and peace fill our souls and we move forward as overcomers having hearing ears and carrying healing and blessing.