DISCIPLINE OF THE SERVANT NO. 3

DISCIPLINE OF THE SERVANT NO. 3

I cannot now say all I would like to say, and the blessing I am looking to the Lord to grant you as exercised by your present discipline. I am the more interested in you, and desire that the Lord may give you a higher line of service, and that you may be assured by Him that He wants you to be more His friend. It is not great acts which convey the assurance of the greatest love. The greatest love of all can say, “The very hairs of your head are all numbered” (Matthew 10: 30). The more minute the attention the greater the true love and interest.

The end of all discipline is that God is more before me. “I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee” (Job 42: 5).

His discipline is the sure evidence of His present interest in us — to make us partakers of His holiness. In the examples given in Hebrews 11 they were all suffering for Christ’s sake. Yet it was for their own benefit. One in one way and one in another. Our hope is only in God.