LISTENING TO THE LORD

^[p. 169] LISTENING TO THE LORD

I feel thankful to the Lord for my winter. I have enjoyed His word very much for myself, and I trust there is an increased desire to be so in the value and power of His presence, that while all that is unsuited to Him is absolutely refused, there is more exclusive occupation with His things, which God reveals unto us by His Spirit. Like the queen of Sheba, one’s own side is shut out, while we listen to the Lord declaring the Father, and opening out “He shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you” (John 16: 15).

Some here have been so engrossed with the clearing away of evil, that they have not had leisure of spirit to be “beside” themselves — to enter into the things of the “greater than Solomon”.