The Ark – Rest

How little do we enter into all God owes, and all we owe to Christ’s death! Are you looking for Him tonight? Death, the world’s conversion, the revelation of antichrist, the restoration of the Jews, are never our hope—our only hope is the return of the Bridegroom. Did you get up this morning expecting Him? If you are allowed to retire tonight will you be expecting Him? Then there will be rest, and neither adversary nor enemy occurrent. No need of the crucible then, we shall be just like Him. No need of the hammer there. There will be no discipline, no exercise then, for the former things are passed away—that is what we wait for. We never could have had rest of conscience, rest of heart, or the rest of God but for the ark going the three days’ journey. We are very near the last rest now. If we have the first rest, and have taken His yoke, and thus found the second, we shall be sure when Christ comes to get the third. God grant that on our way to the rest which we are so shortly to enter into forever we may be better light-bearers for the Lord Jesus Christ.
H. M. H.