NOVEMBER 12TH, 1925

NOVEMBER 12TH, 1925

... I was able to be out at the reading last night on part of Mark 14. We were saying that nothing ought to affect us more than the sorrows through which the Lord went in His love. To spiritually apprehend them demands great holiness, but it nourishes spiritual affections probably in a way that nothing else could do. I think Christians generally are more apt to dwell on the perfection of what He has accomplished, and the blessed and eternal results of it, than they are to consider at what a cost to Him it was all secured. Yet it is the latter that really moves the heart, and knits it to Him in personal affection. His greatness, His moral perfections, His ^[p. 124] glory, all have their part in attracting us to Him, but the sorrows through which His love went, and in which it disclosed its depth and power, affect the heart as nothing else can. They subdue, they form tender sensibilities, they bring us to the very heart of Christ. But it is thrice-holy ground that we traverse there; we can only “watch” there as by the Spirit we are apart from the weakness and sentiment of the flesh. May we know more what it is to be really held by the love of Christ!

My love in the Lord to you all,

Yours affectionately in Him,

November 12th, 1925.