The world and its desires pass away, but the man
who does the will of God lives forever. Dear children, this is the last hour. 1
John 2:17,18
Over wide stretches of the earth
the people of God are being driven, scattered, having everything outward taken.
The question is: Why does the Lord allow it? Why is it so, if the Lord is wise,
and almighty, and gracious? It is to discover how much the Heavenly Christ is
to His people, and how much they depend upon the earthly order of things, even
the Christian order.
“That which was from the beginning.... Little children, it is the last hour... the one who does the will of
God lives for ever”. Do you see the link? If at the end, at the last
hour, it is as it was from the beginning, then it will abide for ever, but if
it has become something else, it will go. This whole question of heavenly
relationship with the Lord is a tremendously searching one, the fact that
Christ has transferred everything to heaven and that nothing less than a life
in heavenly union with Him will stand the test at any time. We will ask the
Lord that He will take this – if it really is the truth – and search us. It may
be that some of us will find comfort, because we shall see this is exactly what
the Lord is doing with us. Why isolation? Why the testings? Why the loneliness
in spiritual life? To save us from things unto Himself, even Christian things,
so that God’s end that Christ may be all and in all shall be reached; not
things, but Christ; not Christianity, but Christ; not Christian work, but
Christ.
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