JANUARY 4TH, 1944

JANUARY 4TH, 1944

BELOVED BROTHER, — My heart is deeply moved to hear of the great sorrow which has come upon your dear wife and yourself and all your family. I am most sympathetically with you, and my prayers are going up continually for you all. But how feeble are my thoughts and sympathies compared with those of the blessed Priest on high! He has known beforehand what was coming upon you, and His intercession has been going on for your sustainment, and will be answered. On our part we can but bow our heads and our hearts in presence of the inscrutable ways of God. They are, to us, untraceable, but He has said that they are above our ways, “as the heavens are higher than the earth”. This suggests that His eternal and heavenly purpose gives character to His ways with His saints here on earth. Every detail has heaven in view, and what will come out there. Your loved one has shown clearly that heaven, and the glorified Saviour who is there, was in his heart as a practical power, and it is your comfort and joy that it was so. We had all hoped that he might have remained to adorn and further the testimony here, but it is otherwise ordered. Divine love has claimed him to await with the Lord ^[p. 329] that blessed consummation for which we, too, are waiting. May God enable you all to fix your eyes on the unseen and eternal! And thus may there be worked out for you an exceeding weight of glory through the great affliction which has come upon you. I pray much that the Lord Jesus Christ may be with your spirits in His own precious grace so that He may be known by you all in that special way in which your hearts need Him now.

Please do not feel that this needs any answer. I only wanted to assure you all of my deepest sympathy and my prayers. You will be surrounded and comforted by the love and heartfelt interest of the dear saints, far and near.

With very much love in the Lord to you all,

Yours very affectionately in Him,

January 4th, 1944.