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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.
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His death opened the flood gates, in order that the full tide of love might flow over poor sinners.
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(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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. 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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