June 3rd — THE SECRET OF THE LORD
June 3rd.THE SECRET OF THE LORD
"The secret (friendship R.V.) of the Lord is with them that fear Him." Psalm 25:14
What is the sign of a friend? That he tel s you secret Sorrows? No, that he tel s you secret joys. Many wil confide to you their secret sorrows, but the last mark of intimacy is to confide secret joys. Have we ever let God tel us any of His joys, or are we tel ing God our secrets so continual y that we leave no room for Him to talk to us? At the beginning of our Christian life we are ful of requests to God, then we find that God wants to get us into relationship with Himself, to get us in touch with His purposes. Are we so wedded to Jesus Christ's idea of prayer - "Thy wil be done" - that we catch the secrets of God?
The things that make God dear to us are not so much His great big blessings as the tiny things, because they show His amazing intimacy with us; He knows every detail of our individual lives.
". . . him shal He teach in the way that He shal choose." At first we want the consciousness of being guided by God, then as we go on we live so much in the consciousness of God that we do not need to ask what His wil is, because the thought of choosing any other wil never occur to us. If we are saved and sanctified God guides us by our ordinary choices, and if we are going to choose what He does not want, He wil check, and we must heed. Whenever there is doubt, Stop at once. Never reason it out and say - "I wonder why I shouldn't?" God instructs us in what we choose, that is, He guides our common sense, and we no longer hinder His Spirit by continual y saying - "Now, Lord, what is Thy wil ?"