UNKNOWN, 1926

UNKNOWN, 1926

^[p. 125] MY DEAR BROTHER, — ... If we want to know God we must come under His service and thus be for the pleasure of God and be worshippers.

Suffering tests us. The Lord said, “I was not rebellious”. It refers to the fact that He was to be exposed to every indignity of men. How wonderful! Job was very rebellious. Job’s friends morally smote him and plucked off his hair, and he could not stand it. His friends’ criticism tested him. Nothing tests us like adverse criticism from our brethren; how few of us could then say, “I was not rebellious”, Isaiah 50: 5. The Lord took everything from the hand of God, gave Himself up to take whatever He sent who would in the end righteously judge (see note in N.T., 1 Peter 2: 23). He awaited God’s justification; that is the spirit of Christ. We can all accept things that come direct from God, but what comes from the brethren tests us most. Accept it from God and leave Him to justify you. If you justify yourself you hinder God from justifying you.
1926.