nd feeling. Unseen, within the veil, the Holy Spirit
abideth. Be silent and still, believe and expect, and cling to
Jesus.
5. Oh that God would visit His Church, and teach His children what
it is to wait for, and receive, and walk in the full anointing,
the anointing that abideth and teacheth to abide! Oh that the
truth of the personal leading of the Holy Spirit in every
believer were restored in the Church! He is doing it; He will
do it.
Thirty-first Day.
HOLY IN CHRIST.
Holiness and Heaven.
'Seeing that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of
men ought ye to be in all _holy_ living and godliness?'--2 Pet.
iii. 11.
'Follow after _the sanctification_ without which no man shall see
the Lord.'--Heb. xii. 14.
'He that is _holy_, let him be made _holy_ still.... The grace of
the Lord Jesus be with the _holy ones_. Amen.'--Rev. xxii. 11, 21.
O my brother, we are on our way to see God. We have been invited to meet
the Holy One face to face. The infinite mystery of holiness, the glory
of the Invisible God, before which the seraphim veil their faces, is to
be unveiled, to be revealed to us. And that not as a thing we are to
look upon and to study. But we are to see the Thrice Holy One, the
Living God Himself. God, the Holy One, will show Himself to us: we are
to see God. Oh, the infinite grace, the inconceivable blessedness! we
are to see God.
We are to see God, the Holy One. And all our schooling here in the life
of holiness is simply the preparation for that meeting and that vision.
'Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.' 'Follow after
the sanctification, without which no man shall see the Lord.' Since the
time when God said to Israel, 'Be ye holy, as I am holy,' Holiness was
revealed as the only meeting-place between God and His people. To be
holy was to be the common ground on which they were to stand with Him;
the one attribute in which they were to be like God; the one thing that
was to prepare them for the glorious time when He would no longer need
to keep them away, but would admit them to the full fellowship of His
glory, to have the word fulfilled in them: 'He that is holy, let him be
made yet more holy.'
In his second epistle, Peter reminds believers that the coming of the
day of the Lord is to be preceded and accompanied by the most tremendous
catastrophe--the dissolution of the heavens and the earth. He
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