On Our Way Home

Here we are, on our way home, walking step by step through the wilderness of this world system with all of its trials and temptations. Still, there is rest in God, and His love for us wants us not to fail to enjoy it because there is nothing for us to do but to enjoy.

This is what gives us the strength to do whatever He has, in His love and faithfulness, called us to do. The strength that only comes by His grace that we need most is in the school of His patience. I must have His patience for me and in me before I can have it for someone else in need of it.

His love and grace always give us the courage that we need--the courage that we need to wait for God's appointed time for us to reap if we faint not. To faint means to lack courage. God would always have us to remember that His strength is made complete, perfect in its effect to meet our weaknesses. It is always Jesus who can do all, and His grace that does it. God would have everyone that is His to be peaceful and happy in the sense of grace; then go and pour out that peace to others.

This makes it of the utmost necessity to seek His face and lean on Him with all the weight of responsibility that only He can carry. Make intimacy and communion with God through Christ be your chief concern and the sweet relationships in which we are placed with Him. All is well when we walk in them; then we can discern and do away with everything, day by day, which hinders intimate communion, and so our hearts do not become hard. Only in this way do we quickly enjoy His communications of grace which imparts to us His strength.