LEVITICAL SERVICE AND PRIESTLY JOYS

LEVITICAL SERVICE AND PRIESTLY JOYS

Your letter comforts me in a way that you could hardly understand. I have been anxious about you, and have told my anxieties to the Lord, and it comforts me to find that you have not lost the sense of the unspeakable rest one’s soul knows in His presence, in the sanctuary. I have been fearing lest you were so engrossed with the “Merarite” service that you were tending to forget or overlook that you have an altar whereof they have no right to eat. This is, that no Levitical service introduces us into priestly joys before God. You will see by turning to the last chapter of Hebrews that there is the “altar” to eat at, and the camp to go without for service, bearing His reproach. What I desire so much for you, and press on you, because I know in a measure the great good of it, is the sense of being in the sanctuary. I believe all effort is comparatively useless until one has learned the rest of being in an enclosure where Christ is entirely dominant, where everything tells of Him — He the centre reflected, as I might say, from mirrors all around, for we are there with the consecrated company. Look which side you will He is seen, and when you have seen Him you may rest assured that He sees you! This may be practically tasted of, as illustrated by the queen of Sheba when her eyes had seen the wisdom of Solomon in his glory after having heard of it.

The effects from beholding the Lord’s glory are amazing! It transforms you from old tastes without your being ^[p. 246] conscious of it. You are transformed, you cannot tell how, for it is not the process of transformation that occupies you but you are engrossed with the Lord.

May the Lord prosper you much. We are united to a glorified Christ. Where He is at home, blessed be God, is our home, and our life is there.