CONFIDING IN HIS LOVE

CONFIDING IN HIS LOVE

Confidingness comes from nearness. I do not think that we know and confide in the Lord’s love until we are near Him. I can only know love as I am near the one who loves me. I can know the greatest service at a distance, but I cannot understand love until I am near. It is in nearness that I discover the motive for the service. I may love for the service, as a babe loves its mother or nurse. Often an infant loves the nurse more than the mother, because of the service ministered to it; but afterwards the child learns the love that is in the mother’s heart, as greater than any service she could render. Love serves while service is needed, but love is deepest when it can rejoice in the full satisfaction of its object. John knew doubtless that the love was there before he confided in it, but he ^[p. 36] learned to confide in it in nearness. Peter would have liked to be in John’s place, but he had not the confidence in the love that John had. I may know that I am loved, but I only know the depth of the love when I am near, and as I know it, I confide in it.