The learning the place that grace has given us in Christ risen has brought very great delight, for the sense of the blessed nearness to Him which it gives us remains a settled thing. Yet how needful to remember that the power for resting the head on His bosom is through our having our feet in His hands. Nor does all this alter the fact that as the moment of His coming draws near, and our longing hearts repeat, " Even so, come, Lord Jesus," the sense of His absence grows too. We cannot be satisfied till we see His face, and are forever with and like Him.