THE NEW BEING IN THE NEW STATE

THE NEW BEING IN THE NEW STATE

It is very profitable, yea, all important, to begin one’s day with the Lord. The manna could not be gathered when the sun waxed hot. The great thing is to get so near God that you are divested of all connected with yourself, your own feelings, and impressions, and interests; and you find then that they are not indispensable, that you are quite happy outside and apart from them. Such a season as this has the greatest and most blessed effect on one - to have the sense that I am perfectly happy apart from all the prepossessions here, however great and good they may be in a human sense. When the queen of Sheba was in the presence of Solomon she had for the moment nothing to regret nor to choose. It has a marvellous effect on one to be in the full sense of the new being even for one minute, so grand and so great is it; and yet it is our only true state, and will be for all eternity. With raiment white and glistening I come into a world where everything spoils and tarnishes it, and I feel it; but I have to walk in paths of righteousness for His name’s sake. You ^[p. 421] must get there really to understand what it is to be there. The word declares the thing to you, but you are not established in it until you have tasted of it.