Love so little to serve us and give Him so little
opportunity to manifest His mighty Love towards us. Alas! We even
mistrust that Love. When suffering and loss overtake us, when
instead of prosperity adversity is our lot, we doubt that Love.
Fears and anxieties are nothing less than an impeachment of the
Love, which passeth knowledge. His Love will never fail. He will see
us safe home. Let the forces of the enemy roar, let trials and
troubles come, His Love will keep us. His Love is our eternal
portion.
"For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor
principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to
separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our
Lord."
And soon He will have us with Himself. The church He loved, for
which He gave Himself, the church He sanctified by the washing of
water, this church He will present to Himself a glorious church
(Eph. v:24-27). Even while on earth He made known His loving
purpose, for He prayed, "The Glory, which Thou hast given me I have
given to them."
It is His Love which will make us sharers of His own Glory and
Inheritance. What that Love will do then! How we shall drink deeper
of that Love, than we ever could drink here! Oh the depths of the
Love to be fathomed in all eternity! Oh the length and breadth and
height to be measured! It can never, no never be exhausted.
O, child of God, is not thy poor wandering heart beginning to be
warmed? Is the warmth of His Love, the Love of Christ refreshing
your soul? Thank God for it. It is but a demonstration of His Love.
And do we not want more of it? Do we not need it?
All our indifference, our cold heartedness, our prayerlessness, our
self indulgences, our inactivity and all else which mars our
Christian lives, is because we do not have the Love of Christ before
our hearts. If we were constantly enjoying His Love and this mighty
Love would constrain us, what self-sacrificing lives we would live!
How we would love one another and in love serve one another. What
peace there would be among those of like precious faith. With a
better heart knowledge of the Love of Christ, what joy would be ours
in all trials and suffering and with what boldness we would approach
the throne of Grace and make constant use of our God-given
privilege, prayer.
The Love of Christ would lead us on and on in love for souls, in
service untir
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