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Love, that no suffering stayed, We’ll praise, true love divine; Love that for us atonement made, Love that has made us Thine.The Lord that I
have known as laying down His life for me, is the same Lord I have to
do with every day of my life, and all His dealings with me are on the
same principles of grace. … How precious, how strengthening it is to
know that Jesus is at this moment feeling and exercising the same love
towards me as when He died on the cross for me. His death opened
the flood gates, in order that the full tide of love might flow over
poor sinners. (1 Cor. 11:26.)
Impossible to find two words, the bringing together of which has so
important a meaning, the death of the Lord. How many things are
comprised in that He who is called the Lord had died! What love! what
purposes! what efficacy! what results! O Jesus, Lord, who loved me like to Thee? Fruit of Thy work, with Thee, too, there to see Thy glory, Lord, while endless ages roll,
Myself the
prize and travail of Thy soul.
O what rest … for
the poor soul when he sees he has to do with One who has conquered all
enemies for him. … Before he came to the consciousness of this, the
book of his daily transgressions appeared to ascend up before God,
black with the catalogue of his offences, on every leaf of which was
written, Sin, sin, sin; but now these blackened characters are effaced,
and on each page is transcribed in letters of blood, in the blood of
God’s dear Lamb, Love, love, love. That love is a
sanctuary in which we walk while passing through a world of snares, the
provoking of all men … and the more the crossing and entanglement of
what is without, the sweeter the rest of His presence. The great thing
is to be near Christ, and to be constantly near Christ, where the soul
is kept in peace … and thus in the sense of love, that our service may
flow from thus dwelling with Him, and carry the stamp of it. How did
Christ reveal the Father? “The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom
of the Father, he hath declared him.” He … could declare Him, as in the
present sense of the love of which He was the object, which He enjoyed
in His bosom. He was perfect, and we are failing servants, but that is
the only way of all carrying the unction of His presence. And when the
storm is all passed, the brightness for which He is preparing us will
shine out unclouded, and it will be HIMSELF. … And oh, how blessed the
love, Jesu’s love, that has brought us there for ever with Him. 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. Pilgrim Portions - Meditations for the Day of Rest - Selected from the Writings, Hymns,
Letters, etc., of J. N. Darby SEDIN-Servicio Evangélico |
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