EB 4:15{Think of Jesus not merely entering into the fact, but into the feeling of what you are going through. "Touched with the feeling"—how deep that goes! When we turn away to Him in our wordless weariness of pain which only He understands, we find out that we have to do with Him in quite a different sense from how we have to do with anyone else. We could not do without Him, and thank God we shall never have to do without Him.
And we are answerable only to Him in everything. To our own Master we stand or fall; and that latter alternative is instantly put out of the question, the apostle adding, "Yea, he shall be holden up, for God is able to make him stand," i.e., he who is his "own Master's" servant. To Him we have to give account, if from Him we take our orders.
We have to do with Him directly. So directly that it is difficult at first to grasp the directness. There is absolutely nothing between the soul and Jesus, if we will but have it so. We have Himself as our Mediator with God, and the very characteristic of a mediator is, as Job says, "that he might lay his hand upon us both"; so the hand of Jesus, who is Himself "the Man of [God's] right hand," is laid upon us with no intermediate link and no intervening distance. We do not need any paper and print, let alone any human voice, between us and Himself.
To Thee, O dear, dear Savior,
My spirit turns for rest.
That turning is instinctive and instantaneous when we have once learned what it is to have direct and personal dealing with the Lord Jesus Christ. Life is altogether a different thing then, whether shady or sunshiny, and a stranger intermeddleth not with our hidden joy. Perhaps it is just this that makes such a strangely felt difference between those who equally profess and call themselves Christians.
"My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest!”
A promise sweetly tender, soothing the anxious breast.
He knows the lonely spirit, and all its hidden woe;
He knows the weary yearnings no earthly friend can know.
Encompassed by that Presence thou wilt not be alone,
And thou may'st safely rest thee 'neath the shadow of His throne.