To be near unto God - pagina 206

descend to the

child

otherwise

than by disin-

terested kindness.

And this is just what God has done for us. He has done it in Christ. In Christ he has come to us as man, to make the inequalitj^ equal, to join himself to our life and in everything to become like unto the brethren, only sin This is the great myster>', by virtue excepted. of which with those who have joined themselves who believe in him and have become one with him in soul, tiTie love for God can develop itself independently of the hindrance of

to Jesus,

inequality.

And if now j-ou say that Jesus gave 3'ou everything, and that therefore you can put no crown on his head which already he does not have, then bring to mind that there is one thing left which God alone can claim from his people, and that But then this one thing is the love of the heart. it must be love with all the heart, until the heart shall yearn after God, as God's heart has yearned after us.

^'WITH ALL

THY

SOUL."

troubled and even guilty that with the passing years you have made so little advance in love for God, then examine with more care than before the rule of Christ regarding it. You have known the great commandment from childhood. You have learned it by heart, and your conscience has admitted unconditionally that Christ is right. In your love for God nothing can be wanting. With all the heart and soul and mind and strength it must be If

you begin to

feel

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