“THE SECRET OF THE LORD.”
By J. N. D.
If I say I am in Christ, I say Christ is in me, and my business is to show out Christ, and nothing else. It is having Christ always before us, and really walking in the presence of God. The great secret is to be more with God than with anybody; and if we are not, we shall go astray. The moment I get away from the conscious presence of God, self has a certain place; whereas if I am really in the presence of God, I am nothing. You are not competent to discern the will of God if you are not with him: “the secret of the Lord is with them that fear him.” We have to be before God himself, or else we shall never keep straight; and for that we must be in the path of God, for him to lead us. I cannot realize God’s presence out of the path of his will. The instant we lose the sense of dependence, we are in danger. Obedience and dependence, these are the two living principles of the new man. “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.”—J. N. D., London.