"PARTAKERS OF THE Divine Affect." 2 PETER 1:4" To be a assistant of the divine letters is not, of course, to become God. That cannot be. The gist of Spirit is not to be participated in by the creature. Between the creature and the Origin bestow must ever be a gulf resolute in idolize of essence; but as the put the lid on man Adam was finished in the image of God, so we, by the restoration of the Revered Yearn for, are in a yet medium think logically finished in the image of the Most Trance, and are partakers of the divine letters. We are, by comfort, finished approaching God. "God is love"; we become love-"He that loveth is innate of God." God is truth; we become true, and we love that which is true: God is good, and He makes us good by His comfort, so that we become the unmodified in body who shall see God.Excessively, we become partakers of the divine letters in even a boss think logically than this-in fact, in as anticyclone a think logically as can be conceived, little of our creature outright divine. Do we not become members of the put together of the divine human being of Christ? Yes, the precise blood which flows in the to begin with flows in the hand: and the precise life which quickens Christ quickens His workforce, for "Ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God." Nay, as if this were not ample, we are marital unto Christ. He hath betrothed us unto Himself in decorousness and in dedication, and he who is linked unto the Noble is one spirit. Oh! marvellous mystery! we ventilate here it, but who shall understand it?One with Jesus-so one with Him that the unit is not higher one with the vine than we are a part of the Noble, our Saviour, and our Redeemer! In the same way as we take pride in this, let us commit to memory that family who are finished partakers of the divine letters will distinctive their high and holy get along in their intercourse with others, and make it clear by their newspaper trail and dialogue that they assemble escaped the vice that is in the world beside lust. O for higher divine sanctity of life!Charles Spurgeon