Think of
the Son, that he is a Son indeed, in spirit and in truth. Think of
the Holy Spirit, that he is a Holy Spirit indeed, in spirit and in
truth. So you will be thinking indeed of the Ever-blessed Trinity;
and will worship God, not with your lips or your thoughts merely, but
in spirit and in truth. Think of the Father, that he is the Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ, and that the perfect Son must be forever
perfectly like the perfect Father. For then you will believe that
God the Father looks on you, and feels for you, exactly as does Jesus
Christ your Lord; then you will feel that he is a Father indeed; and
will enter more and more into the unspeakable comfort of that word of
all words, 'Our Father who art in heaven.'
Think of the Lord Jesus Christ as the perfect Son, who, though he is
co-equal and co-eternal with his Father, yet came not to do his own
will, but his Father's; who instead of struggling, instead of helping
himself, cried in his agony: 'Not my will, but thine be done;' and
conquered by resignation. So you will enter into the unspeakable
comfort of conquering by resignation, as you see that your
resignation is to be like the resignation of Christ; not that of
trembling fear like a condemned criminal before a judge; not that of
sullen necessity, like a slave before his master: but that of the
only-begotten Son of God; the resignation of a child to the will of a
father whom he can utterly trust, because that father's name is love.
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