THE SERVANT, IN LOVE AND POWER

(Rev 1)

The servant of God in this day must take his character from Christ. He is “the faithful and true witness”, Rev 3: 14. Two things have marked Christ as the faithful and true witness—His love and His power. They overcome every obstacle. His love is proved in His death—His power in that He lives, having triumphed over every opposing power. “I am he that liveth, and was dead”—here is the love—“I am alive for evermore ... and have the keys of hell and of death”—this is His power. “He laid his right hand upon ME”, is His identification of the servant with all this—with all that He is in Himself. It is necessary in order to the servant’s overcoming in the days of ecclesiastical pretension—“the things that are”—the dark and dreary details of which follow the grand equipment of the servant, to go through them all and to overcome! Nothing avails for this, I think, but that each should be conscious of His right hand “upon me”. All are, no doubt, servants in their measure. This is a peculiar servant and for a peculiar day.

“Those things that are” exist today. To be prepared and conscious, as John was, of “His right hand upon me” in this day, is what I covet.

From Helps for the Poor of the Flock—vol 8, 1903