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Will You Let Him In?, February 19
The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved
thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I
drawn thee.
Jeremiah 31:3
.
The work dearest to the heart of Christ is that of drawing souls to Him....
Look at Jesus, the Majesty of heaven. [
From a personal letter of appeal.
]
What do you behold in His life history? His divinity clothed with humanity,
a whole life of continual humility, the doing of one act of condescension
after another, a line of continual descent from the heavenly courts to a
world all seared and marred with the curse, and in a world unworthy of His
presence, descending lower and still lower, taking the form of a servant,
to be despised and rejected of men, obliged to flee from place to place to
save His life, and at last betrayed, rejected, crucified. Then, as sinners for
whom Jesus suffered more than the power of mortal can portray, shall we
refuse to humble our proud will?
Study day and night the character of Christ. It was His tender com-
passion, His inexpressible, unparalleled love for your soul, that led Him
to endure all the shame, the revilings, the abuse, the misapprehensions of
earth. Approach nearer Him, behold His hands and His feet, bruised and
wounded for our transgressions. “The chastisement of our peace was upon
him; and with his stripes we are healed.”
Lose no time, let not another day pass into eternity, but just as you are,
whatever your weakness, your unworthiness, your neglect, delay not to
come now.... The call of Jesus to come to Him, the presentation of a crown
of glory that fadeth not away, the life, the eternal life that measures with
the life of God, has not been of sufficient inducement to lead you to serve
Him with your undivided affections....
Be no longer on Satan’s side of the question. Make decided, radical
changes through the grace given you of God. No longer insult His grace.
He is saying with tears, “Ye will not come to me, that ye might have life”
(
John 5:40
). Now Jesus is inviting you, knocking at the door of your heart
for entrance. Will you let Him come in
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Letter 36, 1892
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