THE SPIRIT OF WISDOM AND REVELATION

THE SPIRIT OF WISDOM AND REVELATION

I sometimes feel as if I did not apprehend His goodness sufficiently, but what do we apprehend sufficiently? I have been much interested in the words “Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him” (Ephesians 1: 17). There is a great deal in these words, and I am sure no one can apprehend in divine certainty the counsel of God who has not received this wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him.

I believe ———— are surrendering every part of the truth distinctively Christian, dropping to the measure of the saints in system with no higher knowledge of God than is ^[p. 119] given in the psalms, where it is beautifully God’s help and comfort in the midst of opposition from man, but nothing about association with Christ in heaven or being of the divine circle of the Father’s house. They seem to have no idea of being sustained by God as in John’s gospel apart from the earth and from man, as man, by the Spirit of God sent down from heaven. I remark that any one who has been exercised before the Lord as to the truth that is being contended for has gained much. I do not see how one can acquire anything divine without exercise, and this accompanies faith. I find that when the immensity of a truth comes before me, and this immensity is sure to come before one when the Spirit presents it, that as I believe in it I pray, and the more I believe it the more am I cast on God to make it good to me, for no one else could make it good to me.

Have you seen ‘A Circle of the Truth’ in one volume? notes of lectures given about three years ago. It sets forth the peculiarity of our calling as Christians, saints of God, in the day of His Son’s rejection from the earth. I thank the Lord that it grows on me more and more each day, that we have passed out of death in His death, into life — His life.

May your heart enter into and enjoy more and more each day your high calling.