(John 4:24.)

We may rest assured that if our thoughts about the person of our Lord are not formed by the Holy Spirit through the Word, they will be formed by the mere natural sequence of cause and effect in the circumstances in which we live. This is Satan's opportunity to see that the influence at work on our minds will be bad enough, with consequent bad thoughts and their attendant evil.

To have God's thoughts, and have them guide our lives, means judgment of the flesh-of self. In matters of lesser importance, this may not evince so plainly what we are; but when it touches the more vital things of divine life, the case is different. True worship must flow from apprehension of what and whom Christ is. Here is where one is thoroughly tested. But the very nature of true worship forces the one who will not judge the flesh to form low ideas of the person of Christ. The flesh cannot enjoy God. To worship Him in truth I must not only see in Him every, moral and divine beauty and perfection, but I must enjoy Him as thus known. To accommodate my thoughts of Him to what the flesh can enjoy is fatal and awful. In brief, worship must be by the Spirit and in truth.
F. H. J.