To be near unto God - pagina 200

than one: even Christ. Jesus alone has fulfilled the second commandment of love to fellowmen, and with respect to this, be it at a far distance, many saints have pressed his footsteps. But in the fulfilment of the first and great commandment Jesus stands incomparably alone. He alone has loved God with all his heart, with all his soul, with all his mind and with all his strength, always, even unto the end, without one moment's interruption. This is his crown of glory. Therein Think him away and is the life of the world. the whole world, with its thousand millions of people, stands before God without one among

them who has kept the great, supreme and first commandment. But he has come, and now there is One from whose real human heart and real

human

soul and real human consciousness proceeds this pure, full, unalloyed love for God, for the joy of which. Almighty God has created all mankind. This is the shield which is lifted up upon us. This accounts for the fact that God can still tolerate this world and bear it. With us also this will come. Many of our beloveds, who in the earth did not reacK it by far, in the realms of everlasting light now bring this perfect love-ofifering to God. And we shall come to it when in death we shall fully die unto sin and we shall be done with the world, and shall know God even as we are known. That is, if we fall asleep in Jesus, if in death there shall be nothing left to separate us from him.

And

makes us cleave to Christ is That we love God, that the love of God has been poured out in our hearts, that the that which

just this:

love

of

God

has operated in us, that with us

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