FEBRUARY 14TH, 1921

FEBRUARY 14TH, 1921

^[p. 112] MY DEAR —, — ... The Lord is good and knows how to sustain us, and keep us here for Him, even in much weakness of body. “Long proved in secret help” is a line I am particularly fond of, and it voices the experience which I think both you and I know something about. One longs to be more simply and wholly in His blessed hand, and at His disposal — meet for His use. He knows the hearts that seek Him as to this, and desire it, and I have no doubt they will all obtain their desire in one way or another....

We are now going through Exodus and have reached chapter 27. The types of the tabernacle are most interesting. We had the altar last week — the ability of the Lord Jesus to sustain the victim — all that He is personally as the support of all that He became sacrificially. He could bear every test — even the testing of all that God is as against sin in “consuming fire”. We thought that “silver” spoke of the value, or precious side, of His death as securing redemption in divine grace and faithfulness, but “copper” speaks of the ability to bear testing. We stand with God in the value of the silver — on the two sockets under each board — but viewed as the pillars of the court, in outside testimony, we are sustained by the copper socket. For we are tested in our measure, and we need the moral stability which as seen in Him could stand every test. How blessed that God shows us the perfections of it in Him, and then makes it spiritually available for us, so that we may stand in the same character of ability, and hold up our five cubits square of fine linen! “Five” is weakness, but it is weakness that casts us in dependence upon divine grace, and then out of weakness we are made strong.

Very much love in the Lord,

Yours very affectionately,

February 14th, 1921.