DECEMBER 11TH, 1938

DECEMBER 11TH, 1938

^[p. 260] MY DEAR —, — ... I enjoyed the meeting this morning, and we had help this afternoon on 2 Peter 1: 12 - 18. The voice was uttered to Him “by the excellent glory”. Peter seems to bring over all that stood in connection with the Shekinah, and link it up now with God the Father. And we thought it was not only good that there was such a Voice speaking of such a Person as the beloved Son, but there were those capable of hearing that Voice, and taking into their affections what the Voice said. “This voice we heard”. God the Father would not speak of His delight in His beloved Son unless there were ears to hear what He says. He did not have His beloved Son in the world without making sure that there were hearts prepared to appreciate Him. “The children” were there, “the seed of Abraham”, and as they were in blood and flesh He took part in the same. He would take up kindred, not with the fallen race, but with that generation of God which loved righteousness and hated lawlessness. We see their exercises, their sense of sin, and at the same time their confidence and delight in God, in the Psalms. A little green oasis in this desert world — “the saints that are on the earth” — the excellent in His eyes. The three on the holy mount were a sample of them. They could see the kingdom majesty of the Son of man, and they could hear the Father’s voice. The works of the devil were undone in their hearts. One sees more and more that the important thing is what is inward, not what comes to us in Scripture or in ministry, but the inward capacity to perceive its blessedness by being morally kindred with it. How this casts us upon God! He becomes to us God, in the sense that He is the Source of everything in us by which we become “the excellent”. Then He becomes objectively all as the One who has set His heart on us, and taken such infinite pains to satisfy us by the knowledge of Himself effulgent in His beloved Son....

Yours affectionately in Him,

December 11th, 1938.