We Shall Love Him

August 7th AM

Daily Wisdom

Only in the mind of modern man can an intense emotion such as love become so distorted and perverted as to lose its foundation. A term meant to convey the greatest of depths in human bonding of body, soul and spirit, has been rendered meaningless in all but the most casual of relationships. In Christ alone can we find the true meaning of this word; for God so loved the world that He literally died for it… Love in its purest form brought the Son of God to the cross in order to redeem the damned of this world. All those living in bondage to pride, lust and all manner of evil desires have already been judged and sentenced death save for the Love of God and the redeeming blood of Christ. God so loved the people of His creation that He came down from Heaven and allowed Himself to be nailed to a tree that those trusting in Him may live!
Jim Haynes – August 7, 2009

"The upright love You"
Song of Solomon 1:4

Believers love Jesus with a deeper affection then they dare to give to any other being. They would sooner lose father and mother then part with Christ. They hold all earthly comforts with a loose hand, but Him they carry locked fast in their hearts. They voluntarily deny themselves for His sake, but they are not to be driven to deny Him. It is scant love which the fire of persecution can dry up; the true believer's love is a deeper stream than this. Men have labored to divide the faithful from their Master, but their attempts have been fruitless in every age. Neither crowns of honor, nor frowns of anger, have untied this more than Gordian knot*. This is no every day attachment which the world's power may at length dissolve. Neither man nor devil have found a key which opens this lock. Never has the craft of Satan been more at fault than when he has exercised it in seeking to plow under this union of two divinely welded hearts. It is written, and nothing can blot out the sentence, "The upright love You.” The intensity of the love of the upright, however, is not so much to be judged by what it appears to be, as by what the upright long for in the depths of their soul. It is our daily lament that we who love cannot love enough. Would that our hearts were capable of holding more, and reaching further. Like Samuel Rutherford. (1600-1661), we sigh and cry, "Oh, for as much love as would go round about the earth, and over heaven, yes, the heaven of heavens, and ten thousand worlds, that I might let all out upon fair, fair, only fair Christ.” Alas! Our longest reach is but a brief span of love, and our affection is but as a moment compared with God’s vast deserts. Measure our love by our intentions, and it is high indeed; it is in the way we trust that our Lord does judge. Oh, that we could give all the love in all hearts in one great mass, a gathering together of all loves to Him who is altogether lovely!
*The Gordian Knot is a legend associated with Alexander the Great. It is often used as a metaphor for an intractable problem, solved by a bold stroke

Spurgeon's Morning & Evening - For August 7th AM by Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)