into the fellowship of His Son Jesus Christ our Lord means
also to share His work. We are called to serve. He was here as One
that serveth, and we are "to serve one another in love." "Whosoever
will be great among you let him be your minister; and whosoever will
be chief among you, let him be your servant" (Matt. xx:26-27). We
can be servants with Him. He is intercessor and burden-bearer and we
have a share in this likewise.

And there is the fellowship of His Son in its eternal aspect. God's
calling is to be like His Son. "For whom He did foreknow, He also
predestinated to be conformed to the image of His Son that He might
be the firstborn among many brethren" (Romans viii:29). We shall be
with Him forever and like Him.

And is it so--I shall be like Thy Son?
Is this the grace which He for me has won?
Father of glory, (thought beyond all thought!)--
In glory, to His own blest likeness brought!

Oh, Jesus, Lord, who loved me like to Thee?
Fruit of Thy work, with Thee, too, there to see
Thy glory, Lord, while endless ages roll,
Myself the prize and travail of Thy soul.

Yet it must be: Thy love had not its rest
Were Thy redeemed not with Thee fully blest.
That love that gives not as the world, but shares
All it possesses with its loved co-heirs.

May the Holy Spirit hold these great truths before our hearts and in
His power may we be consciously and constantly enjoying the
fellowship of His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, till we are called by
Himself to be with Him.

Out of His Fulness.

John i:16.

"AND of His fulness have all we received, and grace upon grace"
(John i:16). This precious word was not spoken by John the Baptist.
It must be looked upon as an outburst of praise, similar to the one
which stands in the beginning of Revelation (Rev. i:5-6). It is the
adoring utterance of all believers acknowledging the reception of
that unfathomable and never failing grace, which flows from the
eternal fountain, the Son of God. Out of the fulness of Himself
believing sinners receive grace upon grace. His own fulness is the
source, which supplies all the need of those, who by Him believe on
God, that raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory (1 Pet. i:2).
That exhaustless fulness is always ready to sustain, to help, to
comfort, to strengthen and to fill those, who are in Christ, one
with Him.

But what is this fulness of which we receive and receive so
abundantly? The