Someone has said (it is most preciously true in every sense) that the knowledge of Jesus is the most excellent of all sciences. And it is the real secret of knowing all divine science; all true, divine knowledge is reached by that road. If I know Him, I know what is suitable to Him; I know what becomes Him. It is vain to attempt to produce it, you, cannot; it is not as a matter of fact possible to produce. Suitability to Christ is only learned by intimacy with Christ, and in the company of Christ. We never can be suitable to Christ, if we do not know Him and enjoy His company. We never can know what becomes His mind, unless we are intimate with Him.
It is even so on earth, and among men. Intimacy with a person gives you a knowledge of the ways, and of the mind, and of the desires of that person. You must be intimate with a person to know what he desires; to know what would please him, you must know him, you must be in intimacy with him. So it is as to our blessed Lord Jesus Christ.