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the soul joy that nothing earthly can destroy—joy in the Holy Spirit—
health-giving, life-giving joy.—
The Ministry of Healing, 115
(1905).
Reviewing God’s Love—Thank God for the bright pictures which
He has presented to us. Let us group together the blessed assurances
of His love that we may look upon them continually: The Son of God
leaving His Father’s throne, clothing His divinity with humanity, that
He might rescue man from the power of Satan; His triumph in our
behalf, opening heaven to men, revealing to human vision the presence
chamber where the Deity unveils His glory; the fallen race uplifted
from the pit of ruin into which sin had plunged it, and brought again
into connection with the infinite God, and having endured the divine
test through faith in our Redeemer, clothed in the righteousness of
Christ, and exalted to His throne—these are the pictures which God
would have us contemplate.—
Steps to Christ, 118
(1892).
Love Makes Our Heaven—It is the love of Christ that makes our
heaven. But when we seek to tell of this love, language fails us. We
think of His life on earth, of His sacrifice for us; we think of His work
in heaven as our advocate, of the mansions He is preparing for those
who love Him; and we can but exclaim, “Oh, the heights and depths
of the love of Christ!” As we linger beneath the cross, we gain a faint
conception of the love of God, and we say, “Herein is love, not that we
loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son to be the propitiation
for our sins” (
1 John 4:10
). But in our contemplation of Christ, we are
only lingering round the edge of a love that is measureless. His love is
like a vast ocean, without bottom or shore.—
The Review and Herald,
May 6, 1902
.
God’s Love Infinite, Exhaustless—All the paternal love which
has come down from generation to generation through the channel
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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