SEPTEMBER 30TH, 1926

SEPTEMBER 30TH, 1926

BELOVED BROTHER AND SISTER, — We began Deuteronomy last night with a very good company of brethren, and I think the Lord helped as to the character of the book, and the place into which it fits in soul-history. The plains of Moab are a fine place in which to go over with Christ the whole history of God’s ways with us, and of our own behaviour in relation to those ways, for we review it all there as those who are competent in the Spirit to appreciate it all as instructed by Christ. So ^[p. 152] that we get, perhaps long after we have had the experiences, a true estimate of the past, and get adjusted in view of an entirely new place in the land. A good deal was said of the tendency of the flesh to be active in the way of differences between brethren, and of the provision that is divinely made for the adjustment of all such differences, so that nothing might rest on our spirits as a distraction from the blessed proposals of God. The very fact that such differences arise being the sad proof of how little we are governed by the love of the covenant and the purpose which that love cherishes for us. We are so foolish that we will allow any little bit of self-importance to rob us of all that is truly precious for present enjoyment. We did not get further in chapter 1 than the section which speaks of the administration set up so that all differences might be adjusted according to a judgment which is of God.

With much love to you both,

Yours affectionately in the Lord,

September 30th, 1926.