WHEN IN THE RIGHT ROAD I FIND HIS SUCCOUR

WHEN IN THE RIGHT ROAD I FIND HIS SUCCOUR

I was on Hebrews 4 this morning, and it came out very interestingly to me. If you are on the road to the rest - to heaven, you will find the High Priest’s sympathy on the road. I think that He helps me over my infirmities, that I may be in company with Him in the holiest. He leads me first to taste of heaven in His own ^[p. 423] presence. Then I run on to it in power, through faith in Christ. But first I have to be helped along the road in the wilderness. I have to lean on my Beloved. The first thing is, you must be on the road to heaven, or He cannot help you. As I was saying, I ask a person, ‘Where are you going?’ not, ‘What is the matter with you?’ There are a hundred roads; only one is the right one. The word is to lead me to the right one. Every conscientious person is sensible that there is a divine action at work with him. This is the word exercising his heart to lead him into the right road. Many a one is cheered by the sense of this divine action, though not helped. This action every godly soul knows; but it is not sympathy. Martha had the one, Mary had the other. It is here, too, we grow in attachment to Christ. No love for a person can be formed apart from company with that person. Our attachment to the Lord personally is in proportion to our sense of what we gain by being with Him. Then we follow Him. We give ourselves to Him. “I love the Lord, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications” (Psalm 116: 1), is the start of our personal love to Him.