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O mind divine! so must it be That glory all belongs to God; O love divine, that did decree We should be part, through Jesus’ blood.What is deepest
is simplest, that is the perfect love of God. When once we come
really to know God, we know Him as love. Then, knowing that everything
comes to us from Him, though we be in a desert—no matter where, or
what the circumstances—we interpret all by His love. There is but one
only sense in which God cannot suffice to Himself, that is, in His
love; His love needs other beings besides Himself to render them happy.
He will render others happy. The law says,
Love: it is a righteous demand. But the gospel, Christ Himself,
says, “God so loved.” No creation,
nothing that has ever been seen in this world, could be what the cross
was. Creation may shew God’s power, but it cannot bring out God’s love
and truth as the cross does; and therefore it remains everlastingly the
wonderful and blessed place of learning, what could be learnt nowhere
else, of all that God is. There is so much
selfishness in the heart of man that the love of God is to him an
enigma, still more incomprehensible than His holiness. No one
understood Jesus, because He manifested God. The Holy Spirit
makes us feel the love of the Father. He brings us into liberty by
shewing us, not that we are little, but how great God is. Where does faith
see the greatest depth of man’s sin and hatred of God? In the cross;
and at the same glance it sees the greatest extent of God’s
triumphant love and mercy to man. The spear of the centurion which
pierced the side of Jesus only brought out that which spoke of love and
mercy. It is indeed a
sore trial to see one who is part of ourselves … taken off at one blow,
and unexpectedly. Still, what a difference to have the Lord’s love to
look to. It is a consolation which changes everything. … The knowledge
of the love of God, which is come into the place of death, has
brightened with the most blessed rays all its darkness; and the
darkness only serves to shew what a comfort it is to have such a light. Christ must be
all to us or we shall soon be discouraged. … When Christ is not
everything and the Father’s love the air we breathe for life we are not
going right. The Father’s love, the source of all, Sweeter than all it gives, Shines on us now without recall, And
lasts while Jesus lives.
Jehovah chastens those He loves. … The word draws two conclusions from this truth. … It will not be without a cause in me; it will never be without love in God. Hence I am not to despise, for there is a cause in me which makes the holy God of love act so; I am not to faint, for it is His love which does it. It is correcting a son in whom his Father delights. Pilgrim Portions - Meditations for the Day of Rest - Selected from the Writings, Hymns,
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