TOHU-VA-VOHU 9
There are two ways of looking upon the Cross:
from above downwards, and from below upwards. As
God sees it, it is all finished and accepted; as we
see it, 1t 13 a mode of salvation to which we must
struggle upwards. But God would not have it so. He
says: ‘Stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ has
made you free.’
Our Churchism is mostly like withered leaves—
showing where life kas been.
There are two facts which are never past: the
Crucifixion and the Resurrection of Christ.
In Scotland they mostly learn the New Testament
through the Old; in England, the Old Testament
through the New.
There is a great difference between waiting on
Providence, and being a ‘ hanger-on ’ upon Providence.
The distinction is very much the same as between two
men, one of whom is in regular service to a master,
while the other is looking out for odd jobs that may
come in. .