e pointer points
at. And this Bible is nothing but a pointer, pointing to God; and,--may I
say it with reverence--Jesus Christ came to point us, to show us the way,
to bring us to God. I am afraid there are many people who love Christ and
who trust in Him, but who fail of the one great object of His work; they
have never learned to understand what the Scripture saith: "He died, that
He might bring us unto God."

There is a difference between the way and the end which I am aiming at.
I might be traveling amid most beautiful scenery, in the most delightful
company; but if I have a home to which I want to go, all the scenery, and
all the company, and all the beauty and happiness around me can not satisfy
me; I want to reach the end; I want my home. And God is meant to be the
home of our souls. Christ came into the world to bring us back to God, and
unless we take Christ for what God intended we should, our religion will
always be a divided one. What do we read in Hebrews vii? "He is able to
save to the uttermost."--Whom? "Them that come to God by Him;" not
them that only come to Christ. In Christ--bless His name--we have the
graciousness, the condescension, and the tenderness of God. But we are in
danger of standing there, and being content with that, and Christ wants to
bring us back to rejoice as much as in the glory of God Himself, in His
righteousness, His holiness, His authority, His presence and His power. He
can save completely those who come to God through Him!

Now, just a very few thoughts on the way by which I can come to know God as
this God above all circumstances, filling my heart and life every day. The
one thing needful is: I must wait upon God. The original is,--it is in our
Dutch version, and it is in the margin, too,--"My soul is silent into God."
What ought to be the silence of the soul unto God? A soul conscious of its
littleness, its ignorance, its prejudices and its dangers from passion,
from all that is human and sinful,--a soul conscious of that, and saying,
"I want the everlasting God to come in and to take hold of me and to take
such hold of me that I may be kept in the hollow of His hand for my life
long; I want Him to take such possession of me that every moment He may
work all in all in me." That is what is implied in the very nature of our
God. How we ought to be silent unto Him, and wait upon Him!

May I ask, with reverence: What is God for? A God is for this: to be the
light and the life o