I HAVE just been thinking what a place this is — no other like it. It is our need that brought us to Christ — it is very mean — but the link that binds you to Christ is forged out of the hard metal of your own necessities. Nothing but this can separate us from the world, not the world in its grossness and wickedness that we were in before we were converted, but the best part of the world. The world is nothing to a young convert, how is it that it is not so with us? Look at the verse that precedes this — “Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?” It is a present thing, “believeth;” nothing else will give us the victory over the world. “I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.” It goes right against the current of the world’s thoughts. A Messiah that would give riches and glory it would have (and He will make happiness), but He is not going to have you in wealth and riches, beloved, with an unhappy conscience. He came by water and blood, not only by blood. Water is the purifying power of the Word of God.
ROCHFORT HUNT.