Are your souls familiar with that grace of the Father in having chosen and accepted you in the Son of His love before the foundation of the world? Do you find in it power that separates you from the world? l believe we are now in a very peculiar stage of its history with the powers of darkness letting loose a vortex of evil of every kind, and many a child of God will be caught in it if not walking with God. Some, like Lot, may have to be dragged up out of Sodom. Not that God will not keep His people, but He also wants them to have the experience of what His love is in such largeness that it will keep their hearts fresh with heavenly streams, fresh in blessed and divine thoughts. They who enjoy all the Father's divine love have a fountain overflowing from heaven. Are you drinking of it?
Did it not all begin with God? You know it did, in that He chose you in the Son of His love before the foundation of the world. What joy it is to know that He wants to have you in the heavenly city. His love is not satisfied save by your being associated with His Son in glory.
Oh, if you know what a portion is yours as one who is to be associated in heavenly glory with Christ, then you may walk in the power of it and of the Father's delight in Him. He wants you to remember as you walk, that He took you up before the foundation of the world, and He will not be satisfied in the largeness of His love toward you till you are in the divine glory with His Son. What freshness of joy your heart will have as the result of communion with Him in heaven!