CHRIST is NEAR: “But the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (Deut 30:14). Henry Law writes: “Here the gospel beams forth brightly. This is a picture with Christ in the foreground…For the Spirit, who thus speaks by Moses, interprets also by the mouth of Paul (see Rom 10:6-10). He draws back every veil…and shows the Lord, as the heart and marrow of this record.…Jesus indeed is more than near. He came from heaven—He took our flesh, that He might unite us, as living members, to Himself, the Head. Nearness has become Oneness. The separating wall is broken down. The intervening distance is removed. He asks our hearts that He may dwell there. He opens wide His arms, that we may there repose. ‘Abide in Me, and I in you’ (Jn 15:4). Precious truth! There is no place, nor time, nor state, when faith may not uplift the eye—open the ear—put out the hand—and realize a present Savior.” —Christ Is All, Numbers and Deuteronomy