We would no more be Thine by halves, But live to Thee alone. To know Him is to behold His glory. To learn of Him is to wait in His presence until His likeness burns into our souls. It is then that we come to appreciate the marvels of His grace; It is then that His desire becomes our desires; It is then, that to do His will becomes our pleasure and delight; It is then that the fragrance of His loveliness becomes the luster of our countenance; Not a casual acquaintance with Him, but a transformation. The Apostle Paul wrote, That I may know Him. What an aspiration! What an ambition! He once aspired to know the philosophers of his day, now he aspires to know Christ. To know Christ became the pinnacle of all learning to Paul. Hear him in I Cor. 1:17:29 - For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the Gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect. Through all depths of sin and loss Drops the plummet of the cross! Never yet abyss was found Deeper than the cross could sound. Deep below, as high above, Sweeps the circle of Gods love. Oh sacred union with perfect mind, Transcendent which Thou alone canst give; How blest are they who this pearl of price find, And, dead to earth, have learned to live in Thee. Thus in the arms of love, Oh God I lie, lost and forever lost to all but Thee, My happy soul, since it hath learned to die, hath found new life in Thine infinity. Oh that the fire from heaven might fall, Our sins its deadly victim find, seize on our sins and burn up all, Nor leave the least remnant behind. What has stripped the seeming beauty From these idols of the earth? Not the sense of right, or duty, But the sense of nobler worth. Not the crushing of these idols, With its bitter pain, or smart, But the beaming of His beauty, The unveiling of His heart. Ts the look that melted Peter, Ts the face that Stephen saw, Ts the heart that wept with Mary Can alone these idols draw. The greatest exercise of the soul is to sit and gaze into the face of the Holy One. Thou hast made us for Thyself , O Lord; and our heart is restless until it rests in Thee.
Posted on: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 00:00:58 +0000
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