THE SUPPLY OF THE SPIRIT
THE SUPPLY OF THE SPIRIT
As to the assembly, there is a great sphere of service in the things that are Jesus Christ’s. I am thankful that the brothers’ hearts were drawn out in prayer for the Lord’s blessing on His word. No one is really beyond his prayers. I do not mean his words, but the desires of his soul. “He that seeketh findeth” (Matthew 7: 8). We get as much as we really value. I feel many have been [p. 452] hindered by making knowledge of the word everything.
In reading or hearing the word of God it is by the thing you know best that you advance in apprehension of the whole truth presented to you. A true knowledge of Scripture is most valuable, but it must be fitted to your lips. It is the sword of the Spirit only when you are in communion with the Lord.
You refer to the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ. We enter through His blood the new way, His flesh. He, the great Priest, to sustain me in His own life, as I feed on Him as the corn of the land. Every thought and favour of God now is to set us free from this scene that we may live in heaven, through the supplies of Him who is in heaven. He takes care of me here to set me free from distraction, not to sit down and revel here, but to be unhindered. Whatever He does or confers on me here is that I may take wing and rest in my nest on high, where the swallow hath found her a nest. I think the Father, in the same love, deals with us in two ways. As we are in flesh, He comes down to our need as He did in the Old Testament. But in the Spirit He brings us up to Himself, as in the New Testament. The supply of the Spirit of Christ is to bring us in out of this scene into heaven, for the “old corn of the land” is there. There are three experiences in Hebrews: my infirmity, company with the Lord, and racing to the place where He is. The happy thing is to pass through all three each day. When He lifts us out of our infirmity we are in His company, and having enjoyed His company we run on to the top where He is. May the Lord be better known to each of us day by day!