COMMUNION

COMMUNION

How little we realise what communion with one another is! If we walk in the light as He is in the light we have communion with one another. The sense of being with others in His presence - not that one is there alone, though it is true that one is there, but that one is there in company - that you “may be able to comprehend with all saints” (Ephesians 3: 18), is, I suppose, in keeping with this idea, but they must all be in the light.

It is a great comfort to me to find that you have the sense of the unspeakable quiet in His presence, in the sanctuary. When engrossed with Merarite service there is a tendency to forget or overlook that we have an altar whereof they had no right to eat. That is, no Levitical service introduces us into priestly joys before God. You will see in Hebrews 13 that there is the altar to eat at, and the camp to go without for service, bearing His reproach. What I press, because I know the great good of it, is the sense of being in the sanctuary. All effort is comparatively useless until one has learned the ease of being in an enclosure where Christ is entirely dominant, where everything tells of Him, He the centre, and reflected, as it were, all around, as in a mirror, and when you have seen Him you are assured that He sees you. The eyes meet in the mirror, though apparently looking from different directions. This was practically tasted by the queen of Sheba after she had confided in Solomon.