“Dwell deep” (Jer. xlix. 8).
God’s presence blends with every other thought and consciousness, flowing
sweetly and evenly through our business plans, our social converse our
heart’s affections, our manual toil, our entire life, blending with all,
consecrating all, and conscious through all, like the fragrance of a
flower, or the presence of a friend consciously near, and yet not
hindering in the least the most intense and constant preoccupation of the
hands and brain. How beautiful the established habit of this unceasing
communion and dependence, amid and above all thoughts and occupations! How
lovely to see a dear old saint folding away his books at night and humbly
saying, “Lord Jesus, things are still just the same between us,” and the
falling asleep in His keeping.
So let us be stayed upon Him. Let us grow into Him with all the root and
fibers of our being. He will not get tired of our friendship. He will not
want to put us off sometimes. Beautiful the words of the suffering saint:
“He never says good-bye.” He stays. So let us be stayed on Him.