OUR COURSE - FAITHFULNESS TO THE TRUTH, AND PRAYER

OUR COURSE — FAITHFULNESS TO THE TRUTH, AND PRAYER

I was glad to get your letter this morning. I can quite understand that you should feel wearied, but I am sure that there is much to be thankful for.... I think that our course is plain. First, to insist clearly and fully that we belong to heaven, and not to earth. God has given us all things richly to enjoy, it does not say to possess on earth; the other, and it is my great comfort — prayer; we are in the days of Samuel. Samson by main force failed to drive out the Philistines. Samuel succeeded by prayer.... I think that the great point in the word “heavenlies” is that it is a place apart from the earth. Canaan was the type of it — possession, but with conflict. By-and-by, it will be possession without conflict. Satan can follow us as long as we are in the body to any place. I am afraid that with all the assumption of having full ^[p. 105] deliverance through Christ that the mass are not morally apart from the old man, and until we are, we cannot in full heart count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ. I say this with reference-to not apprehending the difference between forgiveness in Christ and inheritance in Him. I must pass from my own side before I can be at home in His side.