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Devotional: March 15th

THE EVER-PRESENT LOVE OF JESUS CHRIST

Unto Him that loveth us, and loosed us from our sins by His blood. - Revelation 1:5

The foundation of all our hopes, and all our joys, and all our strength in the work of the world, should be this firm conviction, that we are wrapped about by, and evermore in, an endless ocean, so to speak, of a present Divine love, of a present loving Christ. He loveth us says John; and he speaks to all ages and people. The units of each generation and of every land have a right to feel themselves included in that word, and every human being is entitled to turn the " us " into " me." For no crowds block the access to His heart, nor empty the cup of His love before it reaches the thirsty lips on the furthest outskirts of the multitude. He does with all the multitude who hang on Him as He did when He fed the thousands. He ranks’ them all on the grass, and in order ministers to each his portion in due season. We do not jostle each other. There is room in that heart of Christ for us all.

"The glorious sky, embracing all,

Is like its Maker’s love;

Wherewith encircled, great and small

In peace and order move."

Every star has its separate place in the great round, "and He calleth them all by name," and holds them in His mind. So we, and all our brethren, have each our own orbit and our station in the Heaven of Christ’s heart, and it embraces, distinguishes, and sustains us all, "Unto Him that loveth us."

Another thought may be suggested, too, of how this present timeless love of Christ is unexhausted by exercise, pouring itself ever out, and ever full notwithstanding. They tell us that the sun is fed by impact, from objects from without, and that the day will come when its furnace-flames shall be quenched into grey ashes. But this love is fed by no contributions from without, and will outlast the burnt-out sun, and gladden the ages of ages for ever.

All generations, all thirsty lips and ravenous desires, may slake their thirst and satisfy themselves at that great fountain, and it shall not sink one inch in its marble basin. Christ’s love, after all creatures have received from it, is as full as at the beginning, and unto us upon whom the ends of the earth are come, this precious and sweet, all sufficing love pours as full a tide as when first it blessed that little handful that gathered round about Him on earth. Other rivers run shallow as they broaden, but this " river of God " is as deep when it wraps the world as if it were poured through the narrows of one heart.