Morning, June 4
Go To Evening Reading
“The kindness and love of God our Saviour.”
Titus 3:4
How sweet it is to behold the Saviour communing with his own beloved
people! There can be nothing more delightful than, by the Divine Spirit,
to be led into
this fertile field of delight. Let the mind for an instant consider
the history of the
Redeemer’s love, and a thousand enchanting acts of affection will suggest
themselves, all of which have had for their design the weaving of
the heart into Christ,
and the intertwisting of the thoughts and emotions of the renewed
soul with the mind of
Jesus. When we meditate upon this amazing love, and behold the all-glorious
Kinsman of the
Church endowing her with all his ancient wealth, our souls may well
faint for joy. Who is
he that can endure such a weight of love? That partial sense of it
which the Holy Spirit
is sometimes pleased to afford, is more than the soul can contain;
how transporting must
be a complete view of it! When the soul shall have understanding to
discern all the
Saviour’s gifts, wisdom wherewith to estimate them, and time in which to meditate
upon them, such as the world to come will afford us, we shall then
commune with Jesus in a
nearer manner than at present. But who can imagine the sweetness of
such fellowship? It
must be one of the things which have not entered into the heart of
man, but which God hath
prepared for them that love him. Oh, to burst open the door of our
Joseph’s granaries, and see the plenty which he hath stored up for us! This
will overwhelm us with love. By faith we see, as in a glass darkly,
the reflected image of his unbounded treasures, but when we shall
actually see the heavenly things themselves, with our own eyes, how
deep will be the stream of fellowship in which our soul shall bathe
itself! Till then our loudest sonnets shall be reserved for our loving
benefactor, Jesus Christ our Lord, whose love to us is wonderful,
passing the love of women.