PRESENT COMMUNICATIONS

^[p. 168] PRESENT COMMUNICATIONS

———— is evidently a God-fearing man; such a man must be sorely tried because he does not see ecclesiastical separation. Where separation from the world is not insisted on, it is evident that the former can be only in form, or the latter would be embraced in it....

It is plain enough that life is not an attainment, but in life I attain to much. I think ———— begins right, but I do not think he sees the difference between the life of Christ manifested in the limits of humanity and that same life in divine infinity where Christ is now. Many do not go beyond His resurrection; they do not extend to His ascension. They do not know Christ in glory. They are occupied with Him in relation to their own side. He was at my side and glorified God perfectly in His walk here, and in death, but He is now at His own side, and it is there I intelligently realise the vastness of my life in Him, for He is my life. Christ’s death and resurrection translated the believer from his own side to Christ’s side, so that as He is so are we in this world; and according as we are at full rest about ourselves, we are occupied with Him who has set us free. Many do not even apprehend the old corn of the land, much less appropriate it. They simply and solely seek for divine support in things temporal; not that they would lose this support if they were feeding on the corn of the land; on the contrary, they would be much more supported, and with the judgment and sensibilities of the heavenly Man in the smallest details of life — and not acting or judging of things according to our own judgments and sensibilities....

I am assured that I can have no idea of Christ’s present mind but as I am in spirit near Him.

I might know all the Bible and have been helped over many a trial, but it is only as I behold Him in glory that I am transformed into the same image. There was no knowing of the Urim and Thummim but in the sanctuary; and that was a present communication.