ETERNAL LIFE NO. 5

ETERNAL LIFE NO. 5

I have read ————’s paper, and it does not strike me what the object of the writer is. It is plain enough ‘life is not an attainment’, but in life I attain to much. I do not think that he sees the difference between the life manifested in the limits of humanity when Christ was here, and that same life in divine infinity where Christ is now. Many do not go beyond His resurrection; they do not extend to His ascension. They do not know Christ in glory. They are occupied with Christ in relation to their own side. He was at my side and glorified God there, in His walk here, and in death; but He is now at His own side, and it is there I intelligently realise the vastness of my life, for He is my life. His death and resurrection translated the believer from his own side to Christ’s side; so that, “as he is, so are we in this world” (1 John 4: 17). And as we are at full rest about ourselves, we are occupied with Him who set us free. Many do not even apprehend the old corn of the land, much less feed on it. They simply and solely seek for divine support in things temporal; not that they would lose this support if they were feeding on the old corn of the land, but on the contrary they would know much more of it, and would have the judgment and sensibilities of the heavenly Man in the smallest details of life, and not according to their own judgments and sensibilities. I am assured that I can have no idea of Christ’s present mind but as I am in spirit near Him. I might know all the Bible and have been helped over many a trial, but it is only as I behold Him in glory that I am transformed into the same image. There is no knowing of the Urim and Thummim but in the sanctuary, and that was a present communication.