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The Highest Kind of Meditation, March 10
Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that
we should be called the sons of God.
1 John 3:1
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What love, what matchless love, that, sinners and aliens as we are, we
may be brought back to God and adopted into His family! We may address
Him by the endearing name, “Our Father.” ...
All the paternal love which has come down from generation to gener-
ation through the channel of human hearts, all the springs of tenderness
which have opened in the souls of men, are but as a tiny rill to the boundless
ocean when compared with the infinite, exhaustless love of God. Tongue
cannot utter it; pen cannot portray it. You may meditate upon it every day
of your life; you may search the Scriptures diligently in order to understand
it; you may summon every power and capability that God has given you,
in the endeavor to comprehend the love and compassion of the heavenly
Father; and yet there is an infinity beyond. You may study that love for
ages; yet you can never fully comprehend the length and the breadth, the
depth and the height, of the love of God in giving His Son to die for the
world. Eternity itself can never fully reveal it. Yet as we study the Bible
and meditate upon the life of Christ and the plan of redemption, these great
themes will open to our understanding more and more.
Christ came to reveal God to the world as a God of love, full of mercy,
tenderness, and compassion.
It would be well to spend a thoughtful hour each day reviewing the life
of Christ from the manger to Calvary. We should take it point by point and
let the imagination vividly grasp each scene, especially the closing ones of
His earthly life. By thus contemplating His teachings and sufferings, and
the infinite sacrifice made by Him for the redemption of the race, we may
strengthen our faith, quicken our love, and become more deeply imbued
with the spirit which sustained our Saviour. If we would be saved at last
we must all learn the lesson of penitence and faith at the foot of the cross....
Everything noble and generous in man will respond to the contemplation of
Christ upon the cross.
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