Small and Great

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Having a legal tendency to measure myself with others, I have enjoyed and been strengthened by the thoughts that have arisen in my soul from such verses.
Be willing to be among the “small.” Heaven has fitted itself for the accepting of “small and great” together. Do not be uneasy if you judge yourself little in either fruitfulness or devotedness or grace in comparison with others. Be willing to enter heaven as a “small” one. The glory has made its reckoning accordingly. The “millions of the saints” are there, as well as apostles, prophets, martyrs. All the congregation, the small ones of Dan, as well as the princes of Judah, were alike in the shout of triumph when the glory appeared (Lev. 9). Clement and others were not Paul in the measure of their labors, in the love of Christ, and energy of the Spirit; but they were Paul as having their names alike written in the Book of Life. (Phil. 4:33And I entreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which labored with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellowlaborers, whose names are in the book of life. (Philippians 4:3)).
It is indeed a happy thought that the system of the glory has counted upon the small as well as the great, as John 14:22In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. (John 14:2) intimates that the Father constructed His house on the very plan of receiving the saints as well as Christ it was part of the original design. It was built as a many-mansioned house; because all that trust in Jesus were to be there just as surely as Jesus Himself.
O, the solid and deep consolation of faith in these great and precious mysteries!