JULY 3RD, 1945
JULY 3RD, 1945
BELOVED BROTHER, — I thank you for your kind letter, and the enclosed cheque ... from the dear brethren at — . Such an expression of love is most refreshing, and I thank God for His grace upon His beloved saints which leads them to identify themselves so definitely and practically with the work of the ministry, and it is especially gracious that [p. 348] they should think affectionately of one who can do so little as I can in this blessed service of the Lord, but I am sure they think of the worthiness of the One served, and this is very acceptable to Him.
Please give the dear brethren my warmest love in the Lord, and my hearty thanks for their bountiful gift. I believe they have sowed in the spirit of blessing, and they will assuredly reap accordingly.
I have been confined to bed for the last five days, and the doctor says I must remain there until there is some decided change for the better, so I am waiting on the Lord as to what His mind may be. I have had much before me the thought of the presence and operations of the Holy Spirit, and this especially in connection with the Father. The Lord said, “I send the promise of my Father upon you”. The Spirit is thus a direct and personal link with the Father, expressive of His pleasure in us as having trusted in Christ, and giving us when ungrieved the most blessed liberty in the Father’s presence as consciously in sonship. Nothing less than a divine Person in our hearts could make real to us the wondrous thoughts of infinite love, and as those thoughts are realised we enter upon the most profound satisfaction, for what we are brought into can only be measured by what the Beloved is, and we can only bow in worship before the Father as we take it in. It is the Father’s pleasure to give the Spirit so that we might have in our hearts in a divine and spiritual way what is in His heart for us as in Christ. These precious realities have been before me, and I thank Him for His gracious favour.
With much love in the Lord to your dear wife and yourself,
Yours affectionately in Him,
July 3rd, 1945.