EXTRACT

When the Lord sees one going on with purpose of heart, or if He sees one getting anything a little more clearly, my impression is it is a pleasure to Him. You do not get these things in a kind of miraculous way, you get them when you are prepared for them. And if a spiritual man is pleased because one seems to be making a little advance in spiritual things, I think the Lord must be too … He has got His eye upon me, and He sees if I have got hold of something that is a help to me, and He is pleased at it.

F. E. Raven (N.S. vol. 5, p.333)