What do we read in Hebrews vii? "He is able to
save to the uttermost."--Whom? "Them that come to God by Him;" not
them that only come to Christ. In Christ--bless His name--we have the
graciousness, the condescension, and the tenderness of God. But we are in
danger of standing there, and being content with that, and Christ wants to
bring us back to rejoice as much as in the glory of God Himself, in His
righteousness, His holiness, His authority, His presence and His power. He
can save completely those who come to God through Him!
Now, just a very few thoughts on the way by which I can come to know God as
this God above all circumstances, filling my heart and life every day. The
one thing needful is: I must wait upon God. The original is,--it is in our
Dutch version, and it is in the margin, too,--"My soul is silent into God."
What ought to be the silence of the soul unto God? A soul conscious of its
littleness, its ignorance, its prejudices and its dangers from passion,
from all that is human and sinful,--a soul conscious of that, and saying,
"I want the everlasting God to come in and to take hold of me and to take
such hold of me that I may be kept in the hollow of His hand for my life
long; I want Him to take such possession of me that every moment He may
work all in all in me.
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