THE HEART

THE HEART

The Lord bless you much in entering on another year. “I am my beloved’s, and his desire is toward me” (Song of Songs 7: 10). It is not only that you belong to Him, but the sense He gives that He takes an interest in you will have a wonderful effect on you. Love alone understands love. Nothing would preserve you all the day long like the sense that you are an object of interest to the Lord. The company and circumstances which your conscience would see no objection to, would bear another character. As He was your object, you would judge what would suit Him, and not merely what would meet the requirements of your conscience. Conscience does not go beyond your moral sense, or your knowledge of God. Peter could meet the Lord with a restored conscience (John 20), but his heart was not restored until chapter 21. If you once have the sense of what it is to be His object, you can judge everything that would cause the slightest estrangement between you and Him. Many walk with a good conscience, who are not answering to the love of His heart, because they do not know it themselves. The bride in Canticles could not reproach herself for doing anything not according to her conscience, but when sleeping she was not responsive to, nor in accord with His heart towards her. Hence when she recovered, it was Himself personally who came before her in all His divine beauty. The Lord grant that you may know daily the blessed consolation of being an object to Him, so that you may judge of everything, not by whether it suits you, but whether it suits Him!