We speak;—the word does, of communion with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ, and I have of tem taken the Father's delight in Christ and in His work, as an expression of this; for our delight, through grace, is there, too. But there is a difference, not only in measure as is evident, but in its nature, too, though it be divine and of God in us. God looks at Him in its own intrinsic perfectness. Perfect obedience, perfect love, no doubt of a man, but still divinely perfect, and that according to the abstract perfectness of His own nature. Hence it was abstract divine delight in what was divinely perfect, and that in the person of the Son of the Father, seeking His glory. We as partakers of the divine nature delight in this same blessed object; but we delight in it by obligation, by finding the precious food of a dependent soul, by the sense of His perfect love, known to us in our need, and in death, as redeeming us. It is not that we do not delight in the perfectness of our Savior in Himself, and glorifying His Father, but we delight in Him as our Savior. There is a link of personal association connected with our own joy and companionship—He the firstborn among many brethren.