We are living in difficult days, but still days for which the Word of God is sufficient for the "man of God." Oh, that you and I might know more and more the joy of walking with Him. Rest assured that in this, neither nature nor the flesh can have any part; but that which is of Him rejoices in it, and we as His children are born of Him and are made partakers of the divine nature. How marvelous that it should be so with us! Think of being born of God and so possessing a nature that loves holiness, and that cannot sin. How one's heart even now moves at that word, "Holy and without blame before Him in love." We are such now in Christ, and the day is coming when we shall be up there and actually so; and then mark, it is before Him. It is before God that we are holy and without blame, and then in love before Him as our Father.
We are members of Christ's body, the Church, which He loved and gave Himself for, and children of the Father, and saints of God. How wonderful and blessed are these different relationships which we through grace sustain. May we seek grace to walk according to them each, to the praise of Him who has called us into them, and to the glory of Him whose death has made them eternally secure to us- even Him in whom we have redemption through His blood, our Lord Jesus Christ.
What heavenly joy would fill our souls if these things were more entered into in the energy of the Holy Spirit; and He has been given us that we might enter into them, according to His power to give us so to do, as it is said, "according to the power that worketh in us."