PROMISE FOR MARCH 3RD

"No man knoweth the Son but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father save the Son, and he to whom-so-ever the Son will reveal him." Matthew 11:27

THE average reader gets very little meaning out of this passage at first. The Christian who has been making progress for years, growing in grace and in the knowledge of the Lord, can appreciate it much better. He realizes that while he had some knowledge about Jesus and about the Father at first,...yet it was a different matter to come to know the Father and to know the Son in the intimate sense, in the sense of becoming well acquainted with them, knowing their mind as one knows the mind, the heart, of an intimate friend. It is a privilege to receive such an acquaintance. It is not to be had by everybody; it requires seeking for, and knocking for, and such seeking, and knocking implies an earnest desire to have an intimate fellowship and communion. R. 2624, c.2, p.4.