A YOUNG Christian has a. general idea of Christ as a Saviour, but he little knows how deep is his need of Him. As we go on with God, and learn what we are in His presence, we enter more deeply into what we find Christ to be to us in His character of Saviour.
So we grow day by day in confidence in Him— a confidence with which nothing can for a moment be compared; nothing can be placed beside it. Ours is a case of utter ruin and bankruptcy. Our love even cannot be other than selfish, and that from the deep necessity of the case. The rocks split and the graves were opened when Christ died; but no effect whatever was produced upon the heart of man. We are bankrupt of everything, but we have everything in Christ. If the Christian does not believe that God delights in him, he needs some further discovery of what he is in himself. If you know how complete the ruin, you will learn that you could not be in God's presence if you were not the object of His perfect complacency.
We learn thus what Christ is to us; we learn to lean on Him more and more; we learn what a Saviour He is. Soon in His presence, and perfectly like Himself, we shall learn Him in another way. B—k.