When we seek to save our life we lose it. We can attempt to save our life by spending all our days in the effort to find and portray God, but our quest may prove to be of little value. In fact, religious striving soon is so filled with Satan's works, words, and life that the testimony becomes false and misleading.

The only path that leads to our goal is union with Him who alone is the faithful and true Witness of God. We are to obey the Holy Spirit as He cleanses the sin and self-seeking from our nature. We are to keep the righteous commandments of Jesus as God gives us wisdom and strength.

Little by little the Word of God works in us until we "fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken" (Isaiah 28:13). Our religious self is confronted by the Lord Jesus. Self-will, self-love, self-seeking, are stripped from our personality. All cunning and deviousness must be removed from us.

We consent to the weakness, the death of the cross. We enter eternal union with Christ. We choose to abide in Jesus and He in us. Life merges with Life for eternity. The wall between us and God is dissolved permanently. God in Christ becomes All in all in us forever.

The deepest prayer of the true saint is that he always will be found in Christ; that he will be with Him and in Him wherever He is. The desire to gain from God, or to accomplish something in the name of Jesus that can be seen by other people, is burned away as the disciple becomes willing to let go of everything else and seek Christ alone.

Our pilgrimage through this valley of the shadow of death has served its purpose when God Himself has become our Goal, when we count all our personal gain as loss for Christ, when every other ambition is regarded as relatively worthless. When this is true of us we have entered the Divine rest, the Fullness of God, and are abiding in His will.

He who is at rest in God, in His will, is an eternal witness to the heavens and the earth of the will, the works, the words, and the Person of God. All true witnesses of God are eternal. Noah, Daniel, and Job are bearing witness to this day and will continue to do so forever.

He who does the will of God abides forever. He is a faithful and true witness because God in Christ has entered him and the true Light now shines from him. The hidden, invisible God has found another witness of Himself. Another place of abode in the Father's House (which is Christ) has become occupied for eternity.

No one born only of Adam can behold the hidden God. We must be born again of the Spirit of God.

The human being who will give back to God all he does, all he says, and all he is, will abide in Christ and Christ in him. He will become an eternal part of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

The inevitable, assured result and reward of our becoming one in Christ in God is that we shall bear forever a true witness of God, and forever we shall behold the Face of the hidden, invisible God (Revelation 22:4). (from The Witness)