CHRIST WALKING ON THE WATER

CHRIST WALKING ON THE WATER

It is a great thing to be in any measure acquainted with the country in which we are to dwell for ever, to realise in the Spirit that we have a place there. The more I know of that place the more I am practically severed from this place.

To the human intellect there is nothing more anomalous than that you, surrounded by everything antagonistic and liable to any suffering, are united to a glorified Man in heaven, where everything is in divine harmony and blessedness. Now it is a fact that you are united: how much do you enjoy it?

Enjoyment does not make it yours, but enjoyment springs from making it your own.

Do you think that you perceive the difference between knowing the Lord in your own or man’s circumstances and knowing Him in His? The first you get in Matthew 8: 26, the other in Matthew 14: 25. In the first He is morally superior, in the second He is supreme. There is a great moral difference in your acquaintance with Him in these two ways. We have to learn Him in both.