JANUARY 21ST, 1926

JANUARY 21ST, 1926

BELOVED BROTHER, — ... We go on quietly in the meetings, and the Lord gives encouragement. We are now reading Romans on Wednesdays, and there is an interest. I trust there may be real soul-help for us all. Last night we had the latter part of chapter 2, and were led by contrast to think of Christ as the One who was everything that He said, and in whom all that was hidden from man’s eye was absolutely perfect under God’s eye. In connection with the last two verses of the chapter we wondered whether “the hidden manna” might not suggest the inward perfection of Jesus in all that related to His blessed pathway here? How much there was inwardly in that holy One which no human eye could perceive! For example, who but God knew the trust which He had when upon His mother’s breasts? Or all the exercises and desires which led to His tarrying behind in Jerusalem at the age of twelve? Yet every feature of His inward life, in the most minute detail, was in the perfection of a grace which came down from heaven. The fine grain of the manna was there, touching, as it were, every grain of the sand of the wilderness, but most of that perfection only discerned by the eye of God. How much there was that did not appear even to a John or a Peter! One feels how important it is that what is inward and secret should be such as God can approve. He is going to judge the secrets of men. In His grace He works so that all that is of the flesh might be inwardly judged, and a true appreciation of Christ brought about. So that the hidden man of the heart might carry the features of Christ under His eye....

Yours very affectionately in the Lord,

January 21st, 1926.