Abeard
Puritan Board Freshman
There is not a circumstance of our Lord's history
which is not another form or manifestation of love.
His incarnation is love stooping.
His sympathy is love weeping.
His compassion is love supporting.
His grace is love acting.
His teaching is the voice of love.
His silence is the repose of love.
His patience is the restraint of love.
His obedience is the labor of love.
His suffering is the travail of love.
His cross is the altar of love.
His death is the burnt offering of love.
His resurrection is the triumph of love.
His ascension into heaven is the enthronement of love.
His sitting down at the right hand of God is the intercession of love.
how many of us stand but upon the shore
of this ocean! How little do we know, experimentally,
of the love of Christ in our souls!
Bring your heart with....
its profoundest emptiness,
its most startling discovery of sin,
its lowest frame,
its deepest sorrow, and
sink it into the depths of the Savior's love!
That infinite sea will flow over all, erase all,
absorb all, and your soul shall swim and sport
amid its gentle waves, exclaiming in your joy
and transport, "Oh, the depths!"
The Lord direct your heart into the love of God!
Just as it is...
hard,
cold,
fickle,
sinful,
sad and
sorrowful.
Christ's love touching your hard heart, will dissolve it!
Christ's love touching your cold heart, will warm it!
Christ's love touching your sinful heart, will purify it!
Christ's love touching your sorrowful heart, will soothe it!
Christ's love touching your wandering heart, will draw it back to Himself.
Only bring your heart to Christ's love!
Believe that He loves you, and just as love begets
love, so the simple belief in the love of Jesus will
inspire you with a reflected, responsive affection;
and your soul, like the flower, will burst from its
captivity, and bloom, and, soaring in life, liberty,
and beauty, will float in the sunbeams of Gods full,
free, and eternal love; and, in a little while, will
find itself in heaven, where all is love!
"Blessed Jesus! Your love, like Your agonies, is an
unknown and unfathomable depth! It passes knowledge.
Let it rise and expand before me, until it fills the entire
scope of my soul's vision; occupies every niche of my heart;
and bears me onward by its all commanding, all constraining
influence, in the path of a holy loving obedience and surrender."
"May you experience the love of Christ, though it is so
great you will never fully understand it." Ephes. 3:19
which is not another form or manifestation of love.
His incarnation is love stooping.
His sympathy is love weeping.
His compassion is love supporting.
His grace is love acting.
His teaching is the voice of love.
His silence is the repose of love.
His patience is the restraint of love.
His obedience is the labor of love.
His suffering is the travail of love.
His cross is the altar of love.
His death is the burnt offering of love.
His resurrection is the triumph of love.
His ascension into heaven is the enthronement of love.
His sitting down at the right hand of God is the intercession of love.
how many of us stand but upon the shore
of this ocean! How little do we know, experimentally,
of the love of Christ in our souls!
Bring your heart with....
its profoundest emptiness,
its most startling discovery of sin,
its lowest frame,
its deepest sorrow, and
sink it into the depths of the Savior's love!
That infinite sea will flow over all, erase all,
absorb all, and your soul shall swim and sport
amid its gentle waves, exclaiming in your joy
and transport, "Oh, the depths!"
The Lord direct your heart into the love of God!
Just as it is...
hard,
cold,
fickle,
sinful,
sad and
sorrowful.
Christ's love touching your hard heart, will dissolve it!
Christ's love touching your cold heart, will warm it!
Christ's love touching your sinful heart, will purify it!
Christ's love touching your sorrowful heart, will soothe it!
Christ's love touching your wandering heart, will draw it back to Himself.
Only bring your heart to Christ's love!
Believe that He loves you, and just as love begets
love, so the simple belief in the love of Jesus will
inspire you with a reflected, responsive affection;
and your soul, like the flower, will burst from its
captivity, and bloom, and, soaring in life, liberty,
and beauty, will float in the sunbeams of Gods full,
free, and eternal love; and, in a little while, will
find itself in heaven, where all is love!
"Blessed Jesus! Your love, like Your agonies, is an
unknown and unfathomable depth! It passes knowledge.
Let it rise and expand before me, until it fills the entire
scope of my soul's vision; occupies every niche of my heart;
and bears me onward by its all commanding, all constraining
influence, in the path of a holy loving obedience and surrender."
"May you experience the love of Christ, though it is so
great you will never fully understand it." Ephes. 3:19
