Forgetting the Exhortation

[stephen]

The experience of most of us shows how easily communion with Christ may be broken, and how needful are the exhortations of our Lord to those who are indeed branches of the true Vine, and cleansed by the Word which He has spoken, to abide in Him.

The failure is never on His side. "Lo, I am with you always." But, alas, the bride often forgets the exhortation addressed to her in Psalms 45:10-11: "Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; Forget also thine own people, and thy father's house; So shall the KING greatly desire thy beauty: For He is thy Lord; and worship thou Him."

--J. Hudson Taylor (Founder of the China Inland Mission, the first missions group to China)

 

[Fragrant Grace]

A very true and important message for us all to think on
Thank you Stephen.

May I just add the following
Hudson Taylor ends his chapter with these words.........


May we all, while living down here, in the world, but not of it, find our home in the heavenly places to which we are seated together with Christ. Sent into the world to witness for our Master, may we ever be strangers there, ready to confess Him the true object of our soul's devotion.

How amiable are Thy tabernacles,
O Lord of hosts!
My soul longeth, yea even fainteth for the courts of the Lord;
My heart and my flesh cry out unto the living God,
Blessed are they that dwell in Thy house:
They will be still praising Thee. . .
A day in Thy courts is better than a thousand.
I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God
Than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
For the Lord God in a Sun and Shield:
The Lord will give grace and glory:
No good thing will He withhold from them that walk uprightly.
O Lord of hosts,
Blessed is the man that trusteth in Thee!
Psalm 84