NOTES ON SCRIPTURE 1895 NO. 57
NOTES ON SCRIPTURE 1895 NO. 57
It is very important that we should apprehend the Lord’s presence. He is now in glory. When we behold His glory He is exclusively before us, as set forth in this scripture - Jesus only. So when we apprehend His presence in our midst He exclusively absorbs us. You must be in His presence to understand the peculiar blessing of being completely apart from yourself, and from everyone else, but rejoicing that you are with Him. I turn to 1 Kings 10, where we get in type our present portion. The queen of Sheba is introduced into Solomon’s private circle; she was not occupied with his great works, but with his home circle. In the assembly we are in Christ’s home circle, and there His wisdom is seen in detail. It is in that circle we properly learn everything. It is in the assembly you learn your gift or your service for Him, and the effect on you is the same as on the queen, “There was no more spirit in her”. (1 Kings 10: 5) All on our side is in abeyance, and a greater than Solomon commands the homage of our hearts. It is very blessed to see that to the end, in the darkest day, the Lord is the light and joy of the assembly. As the remnant of Israel in their darkest day looked for and found the [p. 111] house of God, as we learn from the fifteen steps, Psalm 120 to Psalm 134, so the Lord is our resource, as we see in Philadelphia. The two or three who have come to Him, the living Stone, will surely find Him in their midst, and the darker the day the more will He be to them, as at the close. “I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star” (Revelation 22: 16) - not only the morning star, but He is bright, so that the Spirit and the bride say, “Come”. He is exclusively the resource and attraction of His own, and they know that He is so.