AUGUST 29TH, 1935

AUGUST 29TH, 1935

^[p. 242] MY DEAR —, — ... We considered together the Lord’s holy sufferings and death as the ground upon which all rests that is for God’s glory in time and eternity. When He formed His purposes of love in the past eternity He had in mind that they would bring out the value of these precious sufferings, so that all that comes under His eye in the universe of bliss will be the memorial before Him of Christ, and of what He suffered to establish the divine glory eternally. What fragrance this will give to the whole scene! The thought of it enables us to understand how we can have such a wonderful place in sonship now, if we think of it as being proportioned to the value of what Christ suffered, and, indeed, the adequate result of sufferings so profound and so utterly beyond creature apprehension. We can understand in some measure how the saints above will “of all Thy sufferings talk”. And this is indeed perhaps the choicest theme which can now occupy our minds and tongues.

With very much love to you,

Yours very affectionately in the Lord,

August 29th, 1935.