LOSING DEPENDENCE

LOSING DEPENDENCE

I can understand your fear that the strings would relax. The tendency is to lose dependence when we are enjoying the results of dependence. Thus we may begin well and end feebly.

I am sure your word on the knowledge of God was a word for the time. I have no doubt that if we knew Him better we should know the word better, and the order of things which suits Him. I like the remark that the nous (the thinking faculty) is needed to understand the logos. I learn much from Jacob’s words, “How dreadful is this place”. No one could have described the holiness of it to him; once he was near God he knew it. There is a distinction between fruit as the effect of the gospel, and the fruit which the full knowledge of the will of God would lead to. I believe that most among us are no farther than the Colossians, and that they do not see their need of more.