GOD EXPRESSED IN CREATION, AND IN THE SON

GOD EXPRESSED IN CREATION, AND IN THE SON

I have been contemplating the earth as formed by the Son, and man on it, as the reflex of God. Everything in it boundless and various, a correlative to the mind of God. The creation as a whole expressed God, and for a moment the one vast whole in daily worship offered incense unto Him, was very good.

Then sin entered, and overcast all like a funeral pall; constructively it seized the whole globe as an atmosphere, or rather, man breathing the impure atmosphere grew into a consolidated confederated mass which is the world. Now the blessed Son of God comes into this world, into this scene where all is against God, though once expressive of Him and for Him, to remove this incubus, this hindrance to the full expression of the heart of God. He comes in as ^[p. 129] the weakest, as in infancy, bears up against, and repels the whole course of it. He will do two things: He will manifest the Father on earth; He will make the Father known where He is not known. And He will bear the judgment on all, destroying the works of the devil, in order that the love of God may have liberty, in righteousness, to reach unto man. He encounters it all, He removes it all, in order that God, in the fulness of His own love, may reassume in satisfaction the whole creation. Thus the Son, who made it at first to fulfil His pleasure, now by His own blessed self sets all to rights again, and establishes every work of God in new and eternal blessing before Him. Every hindrance to the love of God being removed, God introduces, according to the delight of His love, everything into the brightness and blessedness of His own glory, the church being the vessel of it to the earth.