HOW TRUTH ADDRESSES ME

HOW TRUTH ADDRESSES ME

What a wonderful fact the resurrection is! This time last year I was occupied with Paul in heaven; now it is more with the judgment on everything here because of Christ’s death, so that I have no standing place outside the glory! What is the difference in me practically? The truth we are occupied with not only colours us, but reveals the disposition in us to be so coloured.

If it be only the natural mind that is acted on, the intellect is interested with the information and arrangement, but if it be of the Spirit of God, I am sensible of a demand on my conscience to respond to it, and my interest arises from this claim on myself. Knowing that it is of God, I am seeking not only to conform myself to it, but I know that it addresses me, has a ^[p. 450] voice to me and a claim on me, so that I see I am not apart from it but included in it as belonging to it. If I have gone through a great death, Christ’s death is the greatest, and His death strengthens my soul in the full consciousness of being out of death - the smaller deaths here remind me of the greatest, and make me sensible that here I must lose an only son, and therefore not as a disappointed one, but as one thanking God for any respite from sorrow.

If God shakes us out of this age it is only justifying His grace in receiving us in Christ outside it. “He that seeketh findeth” (Matthew 7: 8). We get as much as we really value - I mean as to the desires of one’s soul. How naturally we speak of ourselves to those who take an interest in us. If we took more interest in the Lord, He would speak of Himself to us. Some find resource in work, some in reading the word, but every resource fails except the Lord. May you turn more and more to Him as your resource!