Longing for a Deeper Love
Adapted and updated by Kelly Mowrer from Charles Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, August 7
How right they are to adore you. - Song of Solomon 1:4 (NIV)
Believers adore Jesus with a deeper love than they could ever imagine giving to anyone or anything else.
There is no human relationship more important in their lives than Christ. They hold all the comforts of this world with a loose hand, but they carry Him locked securely in their hearts. They will volunteer to deny themselves for His sake, but they will never deny Him.
Only the heart that holds a little love can be dried up by the fire of persecution, but the true believer's love is a deeper stream. Although some, through the ages, have worked to separate the faithful from their Lord, their attempts have always failed.
This is no every-day attachment which the world's power may eventually dissolve either through honor or persecution. There is no human nor devil with a key to open this lock. The crafty attempts of Satan have never been so exposed as faulty than when he has tried try to tear apart the union of a heart drawn by God to Himself.
It is written, and nothing can erase the sentence, "How right they are to adore you." But the intensity of this love is not so much to be judged by what it appears to be as by what believers long for it to be. It is our daily regret that we cannot love enough. If only our hearts were capable of holding more and reaching further. Like Samuel Rutherford, we cry, "Oh, for as much love as would go round about the earth, and over heaven--yea, the heaven of heavens, and ten thousand worlds--that I might let all out upon fair, fair, only fair Christ."
And yet our longest reach is only the smallest span of love, and our highest adoration is like a drop in a bucket compared with what He deserves. When we measure our love by our intentions, it is high indeed; and we trust that this is how our beloved Lord receives it. But how wonderful it will be when we at last are able to give all the love in all hearts in one great outpouring, a gathering together of all loves to Him who is altogether lovely!
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How right they are to adore you. - Song of Solomon 1:4 (NIV)
Believers adore Jesus with a deeper love than they could ever imagine giving to anyone or anything else.
There is no human relationship more important in their lives than Christ. They hold all the comforts of this world with a loose hand, but they carry Him locked securely in their hearts. They will volunteer to deny themselves for His sake, but they will never deny Him.
Only the heart that holds a little love can be dried up by the fire of persecution, but the true believer's love is a deeper stream. Although some, through the ages, have worked to separate the faithful from their Lord, their attempts have always failed.
This is no every-day attachment which the world's power may eventually dissolve either through honor or persecution. There is no human nor devil with a key to open this lock. The crafty attempts of Satan have never been so exposed as faulty than when he has tried try to tear apart the union of a heart drawn by God to Himself.
It is written, and nothing can erase the sentence, "How right they are to adore you." But the intensity of this love is not so much to be judged by what it appears to be as by what believers long for it to be. It is our daily regret that we cannot love enough. If only our hearts were capable of holding more and reaching further. Like Samuel Rutherford, we cry, "Oh, for as much love as would go round about the earth, and over heaven--yea, the heaven of heavens, and ten thousand worlds--that I might let all out upon fair, fair, only fair Christ."
And yet our longest reach is only the smallest span of love, and our highest adoration is like a drop in a bucket compared with what He deserves. When we measure our love by our intentions, it is high indeed; and we trust that this is how our beloved Lord receives it. But how wonderful it will be when we at last are able to give all the love in all hearts in one great outpouring, a gathering together of all loves to Him who is altogether lovely!
© Live at the Well
Permissions: You are permitted and encouraged to reproduce and distribute this material in any format provided that you do not alter the wording in any way and do not charge a fee. Any exceptions to the above must be approved by Live at the Well.
Please include the following statement on any distributed copy: By Kelly Mowrer. © Live at the Well.