DECEMBER 17TH, 1942

DECEMBER 17TH, 1942

MY DEAR SISTER IN THE LORD, — We have now heard through your dear sister that you are very weak, and this moves our hearts to special prayer for you that the Lord Jesus Christ may be with your spirit. He has come nearer to us than any other could do, for He has come into the place of sin and death in which we lay as members of a fallen race. He has glorified God about all that we were, and about all that has had the nature of sin in our history. He has completely settled in righteousness every question between God and our souls, and He is now our righteousness before God, and the blessed measure of our acceptance. Nothing can be added to His perfection, nor can anything be taken from it, and it is all ours through infinite grace. Eternity will unfold this more and more to us.

Heaven contains many glorious beings, but none save One could furnish us with any title to occupy their place. But the blessed Son of God has secured His own place for us, and He is holding it for us, and He is keeping us for it, and none can pluck us out of His mighty Hand. Nothing in heaven would attract us if He were not there. There would be nothing there on which our hearts could rest if the One who has died for us were not the central Object. But He is there, and we thankfully own how worthy He is to be there. His perfections here filled the heart of God with delight, for He did always the things which pleased His Father. We have believed on Him as the perfect, blessed Son of God, the Anointed One, and this is the evidence that we are born of God. We have never been able to find anything trustworthy in ourselves; there has never been any resting place for us in self. But One has come before us in whom there is no flaw, and He has ^[p. 314] brought the love of God to us by His death, and He is ours now in all His blessedness. Serving us all the time as Advocate, Intercessor, Priest, thinking of us even when we do not think of Him!

It is blessed to think of being with Him eternally, and to be conscious that we owe all to Him, and to the Father who gave us to Him! In His tender love He is touched with the feeling of your present weakness; He sympathises and succours, and intercedes for you and moves His saints — His members — to do the same.

With much love in the Lord,

Yours affectionately in Him,

December 17th, 1942.