The danger with us who have learnt something of our standing, is to overlook our 5: We are anxious till we know our standing; eve is a legality about us, which makes us anxious until we do know it: when you first come to know it, it is like the sun rising after a dark night; but if you stop there you are sure to go down. Many a saint has felt the wonderful joy and delight of discovering his standing, which he had been reaching after, and then failed utterly as to keeping this joy through not maintaining the state corresponding to it. The standing is without any effort, yet it is always in the standing that you acquire the state; but then there is another thing. It is, that not only I have a state Godward, but I must have a state Satanward. You must have a state which is fitted to meet the character of the evil of this present scene, and according as you have that, you are able to do “according to the power that worketh in us.”