From Glory to Glory by Watchman Nee & Herbert L. Fader

Author:Watchman Nee & Herbert L. Fader
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9780935008647
Publisher: Christian Fellowship Pub.
Published: 1985-07-14T22:00:00+00:00

David and Mephibosheth

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Lord himself. Hence heaven is lovely because the Lord is there; but if the Lord were in hell, hell would become lovely too!

This world is but a wilderness. What is a wilderness? It is someplace desolate. This is not to say that the arts and natural sciences of this world are ugly; but because He is not here, these things amount to nothing. How can I love a world that despises the Lord Jesus? I have said before that wherever your lover is there is the happy place. Hence, clothes, food and drink may remain the same, yet these are not the same to you if your lover is absent. My home is Foochow, and I often think of going there. But what I desire is not Foochow itself, but the brothers and sisters of kindred spirit who are there. Together we have passed through affliction, poverty and persecution. If these brethren were not there, I would easily forget Foochow. And thus are we to be towards the world. Today the Lord is not here, therefore we cannot find rest or joy in this world. Our attitude towards the world should be that of a widow.

When Mephibosheth came down to meet the king, he was asked by David why he did not go with the king. His answer was:

My lord, O king, my servant deceived me: for thy servant said, I will saddle me an ass, that I may ride thereon, and go with the king; because thy servant is lame. And he hath slandered thy servant unto my lord the king; but my lord the king is as an angel of God: do therefore what is good in thine eyes. For all my father’s house were but dead men before my lord the king; yet didst thou set thy servant among them that did eat at thine own table. What right therefore have I yet that I should cry any more unto the king? (vv.26-28)

In these words we find that Mephibosheth did not mention

anything about bread and wine; he merely related the fact of being deceived. His heart was satisfied with the safe return of the king; what did it matter if he had earlier been abused?

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From Glory to Glory

We realize that when a person tries to disclose his heart, it actually does not depend on the words. For a love slave of the Lord, his heart is more than his words can express. The deeper the love, the more mysterious it becomes. If you truly love the Lord, you may preserve your purity in the midst of universal opposition. On that day when we shall see the Lord face to face, we will not tell Him how much we have forsaken for His sake because we will not talk about ourselves.

Rather, we will say how regretful we are for not having loved Him more and served Him more faithfully while on earth. At that time, we shall truly feel that offering ten thousand worlds to Him would still be too small a gift for Him.

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