There is a temptation in these times of confusion to consider all [as to the assembly] as hopeless and gone. Then there is the further temptation to say, “Why endlessly and needlessly try to differentiate between ecclesiastical truth and error any longer? The confusion and weakness is too great.”
The last days of the Lord’s life here on earth were, morally, very much like our present day. The blessed Lord walked in the midst of that confusion, though He was not of it, even as He was in the world but not of it. He held His perfect, even, narrow and undistracted way and to God’s glory, through it all. May we be given grace to do so too.
His disciples seemed to be the last to grasp things. Mary seemed far more to enter into His feelings and heart. Oh for such a heart!
From a personal letter