If I were to say " All is wreck and ruin, and all I can do is to sit down like Lot in Sodom," I should not find Christ uncovering His glory there. But if I say, " This state of things will not do, I must be holy, I must be separate from all that is not in character with Christ," then He could say that that is like Himself, and that if I am not going to forget the Holy One, He will not forget me.
What an unspeakable comfort it is that there is a glory of Christ connected with individuals! He might shut the door and put you aside-would you find no sweetness in being able to say, " Christ has shut the door"? Which is best, the door being shut by Christ, or opened by man? In a hundred ways He may shut the door: I must not struggle like a naughty child because He has shut it. He cannot deal in full blessing with a soul till it can say, " Thy will be done." If I sit down quietly, because He would have me sit down, then He can say, " Rise up and go out; whether you sit down or go out, you are acting as the expression of my will."