The Lord Jesus was the reader of all hearts when down here. He is doing the same in heaven, now. He does it in connection with His own people, and often they shrink from it. He is the searcher-out of all things in us, but if it makes us know what we are, it is only to make us cling more to Him.
He brings us into the light, makes it shine into us, in order to show out and make us see the things that are wanting in us. And we never learn what there is in Him, contrasted with self, without its making us loathe our vessel.
The Revelation of the Father
The revelation of Father goes far beyond that of God. As a son, I am brought where I can have fellowship with the thoughts of the Father and of the Son— “I in them, and Thou in Me.” Is that true of you individually? You in your littleness, put into Christ; all that Christ is, giving you value before God. It makes one feel one’s exceeding littleness. A zero, a thing utterly valueless, made by the figure put before it to be of exceeding value.
Suffering
We do not like to suffer. But the world was a wilderness to Him and must be to us also. If you make for yourself some little path where you feel you can serve with comfort and know where to put your foot so as to avoid every little stone or roughness, He will not let you stay there. He will change your lot. He still means this world to be the wilderness all the way home.
Gleanings of G. V. Wigram (excerpts)