WHAT SUITS GOD'S HABITATION

WHAT SUITS GOD’S HABITATION

If the sovereign were present, all our thoughts would be directed as to how to do everything suited to the royal mind and pleasure. How much more when God dwells ^[p. 18] among us must we consider what we admit in our company! Nay, how careful must we be not to admit anything unsuited to Him! Yet while your own connection with the evil is over, and for such momentous reasons, you can suffer another’s connection to continue; and not only this, but you can suffer him to form a link of connection with you. Thus in two ways you by this course deny the unity of the Spirit. In the first place, what is right for you is right for every other member of the body held together by the one Spirit. May I allow one finger to be burnt while I do everything to preserve another? Secondly, if you admit the burnt finger, you consent to its position; you are not clear of the association, you are again connected with that with which you say your connection is over. If we received on such conditions we should be connecting ourselves with B———— St., which I trust we are daily strengthened of God (as learning what suits His habitation) to dissociate from entirely as proving ourselves in His sight in all things clear in this matter. Can you be a faithful instructor if you sanction the babes doing what you avow you would think wrong to do yourself? Ponder it over again, dear brother. Let the truth have its rule and sway in your soul, and the Lord will help you so distinctly that the consequences you fear will be but as the waters of the Red Sea to your faith.