There should be a going of the soul to God in a far more intimate way than to anyone else. Communion with saints is precious, but I must have intimacy of communion with God above all, and communion of saints will flow from communion with God. Then the soul, getting into this wonderful place of communion with God, takes His likeness. “We all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory” (2 Cor. 3:18). While there is dependence upon God learned by need, still there is a deeper thing, a forming into the image of God by the soul’s getting near to Him and finding its delight in Him. J. N. Darby