Mary Winslow has become a dear friend and mentor to me
through just such passages as this, though I will not meet her ‘til the other
side:
How sweet is close, confidential communion with Him! How fully we can then unveil all our hearts
to him – disclosing every secret, and making known every want; and bring our
hidden enemies—our corruptions-- to Him, that He might slay them before our
eyes.
I have just been favored with a most precious interview with
the King of kings. He admitted me, even
me, into His royal presence-chamber, and encouraged me to open my mouth wide,
telling Him all that was in my heart; and you may be sure that I did presume to
make large demands upon His goodness, His well-known benevolence. How condescendingly did He seem to listen to
all I called upon Him for! My heart was
dissolved into love and my eyes into tears.
I wept that ever I could sin against such a God, grieve that blessed
Spirit by whom I am sealed unto glory.
But such an interview! Oh,
believe that God is near you at all times.
Cultivate a close acquaintance.
Let Him not be out of your sight.
If we walk at a distance from a friend, and see him but seldom, our knowledge
of him is but limited; but if we live with him, dwell in the same habitation,
we learn His character. Now this is a
case in point. God unfolds Himself to us
in Jesus. This is His habitation—God in
Christ reconciling us to Himself. If we
dwell in Christ, we know what God is to us; and as we make His habitation our
secret dwelling place, so we know more of the character and love and dealings
of our God and Father…
--Mary Winslow, Heaven Opened
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