LOVE PERFECTED

LOVE PERFECTED

Thank the Lord He cheers me much. I find that the more I know of His society the easier it would be for me to leave earth for heaven. I do not believe any one is glad that the old man has come to a judicial termination in the cross until he is disgusted with himself, and I do not believe that any one prefers heaven to earth until he knows the joy and blessedness of heaven, and this is only to be known now by association with Him who is there (Ephesians 3: 14 - 20). The highest thing is that He has a home in my heart by faith and that I am to know His love which passeth knowledge. I am sure many love the Lord for His services like the woman who loved much because she was forgiven much. The question with me is — Do I know the love that did the services? When I do, then love is perfected with me.

I very willingly suffer with you in your suffering and I am glad that you can have a sympathy greater than I could render, from Him who not only supports you under the suffering but raises the sufferer to His own side — to His own company. This to me is the force of “For such an high priest became as ... made higher than the heavens” (Hebrews 7: 26). He lifts me to Himself. His arm comes down to me, but it lifts me up to Himself... Very often what we most desire to feel, the Lord helps us to feel by allowing a loss to occur which would foster it. Paul learns by the loss of Jerusalem that there was no hope for anything there; and thus he attains to the desire of his heart — to live Christ more entirely. He purgeth us that we may bring forth more fruit.