March 11

Revelation 2:17—I will give him a white stone.

There is every reason to suppose that this white stone is a diamond, and that it stands for the Urim and Thummim stone, which the high priest wore in his breast-plate, and which he consulted for the oracles of God. It probably darkened with the Divine No, and grew lustrous with Yes.

The believer may have direct knowledge of the will of God.—You may have your white stone. If only your heart is right with God, you may know his will for your path, not only by the pillared cloud of outward circumstances, but by the inner bearing of the heart. By a quick intuition you may know what God’s mind is, both when you kneel in prayer and when you are called on to act. Only the surface of the inner life must be unruffled and pure; there must be no anxious agitation, no blurring miasma of sin.

Each revelation of God’s will carries with it a deeper knowledge of Himself.—On the Urim stone were engraven the mystic characters of the Divine name. On these no eye but Aaron’s might rest; so, deep in our heart, these revelations of God’s nature are given, which are direct and special for each loving and obedient soul. Eye hath not seen nor heart conceived what God says to his children about life and death, and Himself, and their relationship, and the glorious future.

Such revelations are in proportion to our overcoming life.—If you are perpetually yielding to sin and impurity, and being trodden down by the heel of passion, such communications from the Infinite will be rare and indistinct. To him that overcometh, not once for all, but perpetually, shall be made the revelations of God.