in.

It always reminds me of the story of Jacob, "I will not let Thee go,
except Thou bless me." That is the spirit that prepares us for the
revelation of Jesus. Oh! my dear friend, has this been the spirit in
which we have looked upon the wonderful blessing that we have sometimes
heard of? "Oh! my Lord Jesus, though I do not understand it, though I
cannot grasp it, though my struggles avail nothing, I am not going to
let Thee go. If it is possible for a sinner on earth to have Jesus
every day, every hour, and every moment in resurrection power dwelling
in his heart, shining within him, filling him with love and joy,--if
that is possible, I want it."

_Is that your language?_

Oh! come then and say: "Lord Jesus, I cannot let Thee go except Thou
bless me." The question is asked so often: "What is the cause of the
feeble life of so many Christians?" What is really the matter? What is
actually the want?

How little the Church responds to Christ's call! how little the Church
is what Christ would have her to be! What is the cause of all the
trouble? Various answers may be given, but there is one answer which
includes all the other answers, and that is, each believer wants the
personal

_Full revelation of a personal Christ_

as an indwelling Lord, as a satisfying portion. When the Lord Jesus was
here upon earth, what was it that distinguished His disciples from other
people? He took them away from their fish-nets, and from their homes,
and He gathered them about Himself, and they knew Jesus. He was their
Master, and guarded them, and they followed Him. And what is to make a
difference between Christ's disciples--not those who are just hoping to
get to heaven, but Christ's whole-hearted disciples--what is to make a
difference between them and other people? It is this, to be in
fellowship with Jesus--every hour of the day; and just as Christ upon
earth was able to keep those people with Him for three years, day by
day, so

_Christ is able_

in heaven now to do what He could not do when He was on earth--to keep
in the closest fellowship with every believer throughout the whole
world. Glory be to God! You know that text in Ephesians: "He that
descended is the same also that ascended, that He might fill all
things." Why was my Lord Jesus taken up to heaven away from the life of
earth? Because the life of earth is a life confined to localities, but
the life in heaven is a life in which there is no limit and no bound and