How the Lord takes us up

“For my father and my mother have forsaken me, but the LORD will take me in” (Psalm 27:10)

It is almost worthwhile being cast off by father and mother, if one may be taken up by the Lord. And when one is willing to be taken up by Him, there need be no further anxiety or care; for directly a human spirit yields itself to its Almighty Lover, that moment He takes it, and assumes all responsibility, and makes Himself answerable for all its needs.

There is but one condition: “Seek ye first the Kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.”

As Queen Elizabeth said once to one of her Court: “Sir, if you will look after my business, I will make yours my care.”

Would that all the children of God might know what it is to hand over, moment by moment, as they occur, all worries, anxieties, and cares, to the compassionate Lord, sure that He takes them straight from their hands!

We need never feel, then, as if all depended on our tired brain or failing strength; because the Lord Himself would supply all our need, according to his riches in glory. There is, indeed, no real independence for the believer. To be independent of Christ is to be cast forth as a branch to wither.

The secret of rest, and fruit, and power, is an abiding union with Him which time cannot impair, and death cannot dissolve.

F.B.M.