Every page in our heart is laid open under His eye. Does He read you, and occupy Himself with every thought and intent of your heart? Does He see all in you that is of the flesh judged? or does He see things germinating for self and for time? Ah! if He does read in us what is contrary to His mind, will He turn from us? No; but He will have us know what sort of people we are. He knows all our weakness, and we must know it too. If John is lying at His feet, it is indeed that He may say, I shall touch you and make you feel what My strength is, but you must feel your own weakness. All who know Christ have a deeper and deeper sense of that as they go on. But all the way through the wilderness we have Him for us, saying, You cannot take a step without Me, and I am going before you.
Oh, if the whole way, in all our circumstances down here, you and I were ever turning up to heaven, knowing that we might have all the sympathy of the heart of that living Christ there! He, a living man there, with a heart and mind that led Him to go into all His people's circumstances. Each individual believer, each in his own circumstances, commands His thoughts. He is able to be occupied with Stephen, Saul, Peter and James all at the same moment. Can you say, I do know the sympathy of the heart of Christ; I know how He picked me up and has held me ever since?
The only thing to keep us in the sense of our own entire failure, is to have the light of the eye of this blessed One shining into the heart, and exposing all that is contrary to His mind.
Never does the peace He gives so shine out as amid the tempestuous waters down here. He as my Peace comes in between me and all that gives me trouble, saying, Soon you shall come with Me to another place; you are not for earth, but for Me. He will call me by my name, and take me into glory.