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E’en thy wants and woes shall bring Suited grace from high descending ;— Thou shalt taste of mercy’s spring. Wisdom and
philosophy never found out God; He makes Himself known to us through
our needs; necessity finds Him out. … The sinner’s heart—yes, and the
saint’s heart too—is put in its right place in this way. I doubt much
if we have ever learned anything solidly except we have learnt it thus. We never ought to
be discouraged, because the Lord we trust in never fails, nor can. It
is just in 2 Timothy, when all was in ruin and declension, that Paul
looks for his dear son to be strong in the faith: there never is so
good a time for it, because it is needed, and the Lord always meets
need. I have learnt at
the cross what God was to me as a sinner; and now I have to learn how
He meets my wants as a saint, by feeling my need and bringing it to
Him. To be hungry is not enough, I must be really starving to know what
is in His heart towards me. When the prodigal was hungry he went to
feed upon husks; but when he was starving, he turned to his father’s
house, and then learnt the love of the father’s heart. If we did but
know a little more of the comfort and joy of drinking into the fulness
of God’s love, we should feel present circumstances to be as nothing. Whenever there is
real need in the wilderness, it is a sin to doubt whether God will help
us or not. … Tempting the Lord is doubting the supply of His goodness
in giving all that we need. “Lord, if thou
wilt, thou canst make me clean.” The leper was sure of the power, but
did not know the love that was there. He carries the love right up to
the leper, “and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean.” If man
touched a leper he was unclean and put out of the camp. But He cannot
be defiled. … Holiness undefiled and undefilable carries to sinners the
love they need. “How precious
also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! “… This is a blessed theme, the
theme of God’s thoughts—higher, as the heavens are higher than the
earth, than our thoughts, the theme of God’s fathomless and illimitable
grace. Here is real liberty. Do we know what it is to have our own
thoughts, so narrow, so beggared, so mean, beaten down by God’s high,
generous, liberal thoughts—His thoughts of us as to what we are in
Christ? … Jesus is the great thought of God—God’s thoughts are
expressed to us in Him. It is not an unfallen angel but a sinner
quickened by the Spirit of God who can thus get into the deep thoughts
of God. Pilgrim Portions - Meditations for the Day of Rest - Selected from the Writings, Hymns,
Letters, etc., of J. N. Darby SEDIN-Servicio Evangélico |
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