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Come, fill my soul! Thy light is ever pure And
brings from heaven what Thou alone Yea, brings Thyself, the revelation sure Of heaven’s eternal bliss: in Thee we live.It is only the
presence of God as light which can cause us to condemn ourselves,
and gives us power to purify ourselves from our deepest and
well-known though hidden idols. It is a time to
be entirely heavenly, for the earth is far from God, and daily its
darkness closes in, but we belong to the light, and await another day. How happy one is
to belong to Him, and in His light to see light! How brilliant and
glorious is this light to those who are from home, awaiting … the
coming of this precious Saviour, who will set them in heaven as the
rays of His glory and jewels of His crown … as the bride of His heart. Too often a
healing of a humbling state of things is sought more than the state of
soul which has given occasion to it … and if we do not wait God’s doing
… we have to await the effect of not doing it. There is but One that
can bring the light that judges conscience into the soul: on Him we can
count. … We cannot hasten God; He, when He is working, will have all
things real. I have never seen
a soul living in its experiences and occupied with itself, with whom
the “I” had not a place, without the person’s being aware of it. … We
do not become acquainted with ourselves by thinking about ourselves:
for while we think of Him the “I” disappears: one is in the light,
where one is not occupied with oneself. Does my path in
everyday life come from the light, and is it guided by it? … All will
be bright where it is with God. There will be trials, and trials with
God are perhaps the brightest spots in any man’s life. Mere integrity
will not suffice without God to find out evil. An honest natural
man may use his conscience, but as the natural eye must have light to
search with, so we the presence of Him who is light. “He that hath my
commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me and he that
loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will
manifest myself unto him.” … The path in which He enjoyed His Father’s
love was a path of unclouded joy, and it was a path of undivided
obedience. He here shews His disciples if they are to walk in the light
and favour of His countenance, they must walk in the same path as He
did Himself. O! dwell with me; let no distracting thought Intrude to hide from me that heavenly light ; Be Thou my strength! Let not what Thou hast brought Be
chased by idle nature’s poor delight.
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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