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Pray to Reflect Christ’s Unfathomable Love, January 12
He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall
He not with Him also freely give us all things?
Romans 8:32
, NKJV.
Who can measure the love Christ felt for a lost world as He hung upon the cross,
suffering for the sins of the guilty? This love was immeasurable, infinite.
Christ has shown that His love was stronger than death. He was accomplishing
humanity’s salvation; and although He had the most fearful conflict with the powers
of darkness, yet, amid it all, His love grew stronger and stronger.... The price was
paid to purchase the redemption of men and women, when, in the last soul struggle,
the blessed words were uttered which seemed to resound through creation: “It is
finished.” ...
The length, the breadth, the height, the depth, of such amazing love we cannot
fathom. The contemplation of the matchless depths of a Savior’s love should fill
the mind, touch and melt the soul, refine and elevate the affections, and completely
transform the whole character....
Some have limited views of the atonement. They think that Christ suffered only
a small portion of the penalty of the law of God; they suppose that, while the wrath
of God was felt by His dear Son, He had, through all His painful sufferings, the
evidence of His Father’s love and acceptance; that the portals of the tomb before
Him were illuminated with bright hope, and that He had the abiding evidence of
His future glory. Here is a great mistake. Christ’s keenest anguish was a sense of
His Father’s displeasure. His mental agony because of this was of such intensity
that many can have but faint conception of it....
Here is love that no language can express. It passes knowledge. Great is the
mystery of godliness. Our souls should be enlivened, elevated, and enraptured with
the theme of the love of the Father and the Son to humanity. The followers of
Christ should here learn to reflect in some degree that mysterious love preparatory
to joining all the redeemed in ascribing “blessing, and honour, and glory, and
power, ... unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and
ever.”—
Testimonies for the Church 2:212-215
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