ANOTHER MAN
[p. 284] ANOTHER MAN
Job 42: 5, 6; Psalm 41: 12, 13
Forty-one chapters of Job are taken up with the testing of the first man and it all ends in dust and ashes. Forty-one psalms are taken up with another Man — His birth, life, sufferings and death — and nothing could hinder Him from being set before God’s face for ever! I wish to bring before you the great blessedness of the fact that we come before God and the Father in association with the One whom He set before His face for ever. What wonderful joy for us to know that through His death we are entitled to pass out of association with the man whose history ends in dust and ashes and to enter into association with the Man whom God has set before His face for ever! We are before God and the Father completely divested of the man that ends in dust and ashes and we are before Him in association with the Man whom He has set before His face for ever.
What a blessed transfer! May God give us to know more the power and the joy of it! Through the death of Christ we have the title to take our place in that new circle of divine affections where He lives before the Father’s face. It is our joy and privilege to know that we are in association with Him in that circle in the assembly-completely free from the dust-and-ashes man.