But lay up for
yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth
corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal. For where
your treasure is, there will your heart be also_.--MATT. vi. 19, 20,
21.
To understand the words of our Lord is the business of life. For it is
the main road to the understanding of The Word himself. And to receive
him is to receive the Father, and so to have Life in ourselves. And
Life, the higher, the deeper, the simpler, the original, is the
business of life.
The Word is that by which we live, namely, Jesus himself; and his words
represent, in part, in shadow, in suggestion, himself. Any utterance
worthy of being called _a truth_, is human food: how much more _The
Word_, presenting no abstract laws of our being, but the vital relation
of soul and body, heart and will, strength and rejoicing, beauty and
light, to Him who first gave birth to them all! The Son came forth to
_be_, before our eyes and in our hearts, that which he had made us for,
that we might behold _the truth_ in him, and cry out for the living
God, who, in the highest sense of all is The Truth, not as understood,
but as understanding, living, and being, doing and creating the truth.
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