LOVE HAS REMOVED ALL THAT WOULD MAR LOVE

LOVE HAS REMOVED ALL THAT WOULD MAR LOVE

There is nothing to discourage or dishearten in all this agitation. The great thing for you is to buy the truth and sell it not. Every true-hearted soul will gain much in this time. I am quite certain that there is among us a low apprehension of the love of God, and that much of our self-seeking and independence is traceable to this. I feel it in myself - the small way I live in the simple fact, that all my blessing came from the love of God. I can understand a great kind man risking his life to save a poor wretched man from drowning, but do I take in that God so loved? Do I understand that motive - for one so unworthy of it as I am? I believe God’s throne, or God’s goodness is much more before people’s minds, than that He had a peculiar satisfaction to Himself in saving us. I often say, While many can believe that a saint on earth can rise up to a Saviour in glory, very few can grasp that the blessed God can come from all His glory, down to a sinner on earth and receive him as a Father, glad to have him. I find always that the man who cannot rise to the height of God’s grace cannot accept the distance to which the man in the flesh has been put before the eye of God. The one who cannot see fully on one side cannot see fully on the other. The one who cannot see the height to which His love has raised us cannot see the distance to which in righteousness He has removed from Himself the man in the flesh. Nothing must mar His love.