Jesus came, as I posted last, on "an errand of disinterested love." As mentioned, He pined for souls, His love was full of mercy and grace. Yet His love was a lonely love. He was alone. You may say, "well He had His disciples."
Let's think a moment about them: "dull scholars; learned slowly; what they learned, they forgot; what they remembered, they did not practice; what they practiced one time, belied at another. They were miserable comforters. When Jesus was with them, His was a lonely life." (As I read that list, I see me in every phrase. It's good to be reminded that growth may continue.)
"The world was a wilderness to Him." We see what looked like little progress in the thousands of people He taught, when we see how rejected He was at Calvary. Yet His love enabled Him to bear the burden and complete the work of salvation to all those who come to Him to be saved.
"A father in a house of many little children cannot tell his babies his griefs. He looks down with joy that their toys will comfort them and their little prattle will not be broken in upon his great grief." Jesus griefs will never be known to us completely but those we can read about in His word must be our daily desire. That our love grow more and more in depth of insight and that we will not allow ourselves to step on the floor in the morning without expressing to Him our grateful praise. Let us not continue like "dull scholars"! Let us progress and may we never reject or forsake such great love.
Monday, August 6, 2018
An Errand of Disinterested Love
I wrote some notes down recently and have no idea where I read them. But they are too good not to be shared. So whoever wrote what I am about to share, whether dead or alive, and whatever century you are from, I praise God for the insight He has given you. Timeless truths are always a welcome encouragement to me.
People, trying to be religious in their own way "may fancy they are honoring Christ by their misconceptions. But Christ is never honored by that which is not true!" Jesus said, "I am the way the truth and the life; no one comes to the Father but by Me." No one!!
"Unbelievers live merrily in the haunts of vice, hear blasphemy without horror, view lust without disgust, look on robbery or murder without abhorrence." But those "religious" deceived mentioned above feel safe in their "misconceptions" while mistaking their way to hell. And the truth of the matter, whether they reject Christ or make up their own way, both groups are under the bondage of sin. And the truth of the matter is that even those who have bowed down to Christ, though on the road of sanctification, still deal with the burden of sin. "We do not start (be startled) at sin like Jesus; do not tremble at the sinners doom as Jesus." "There is none righteous; no not one."
Jesus came to save all who live under the bondage. "He could see sin where we cannot see; feel the heinousness as we cannot. Our Lord Jesus exercised His legal right and seeing us sold into bondage and our inheritance taken from us came forward to redeem both us and our lost estate. His zeal against sin was tempered with His love for souls. Jesus love pined within Him because men did not know their own mercies and rejected their own salvation. It was a hard thing to come on an errand of disinterested love."
To reject that love, to ignore it is a "suicidal rejection of grace". Let us think. Let us consider, "how great a love the Father has lavished on us." Come to Christ. Love Him. Know Him. Grow in Him. Know, too, that "we love Him because He first loved us."
People, trying to be religious in their own way "may fancy they are honoring Christ by their misconceptions. But Christ is never honored by that which is not true!" Jesus said, "I am the way the truth and the life; no one comes to the Father but by Me." No one!!
"Unbelievers live merrily in the haunts of vice, hear blasphemy without horror, view lust without disgust, look on robbery or murder without abhorrence." But those "religious" deceived mentioned above feel safe in their "misconceptions" while mistaking their way to hell. And the truth of the matter, whether they reject Christ or make up their own way, both groups are under the bondage of sin. And the truth of the matter is that even those who have bowed down to Christ, though on the road of sanctification, still deal with the burden of sin. "We do not start (be startled) at sin like Jesus; do not tremble at the sinners doom as Jesus." "There is none righteous; no not one."
Jesus came to save all who live under the bondage. "He could see sin where we cannot see; feel the heinousness as we cannot. Our Lord Jesus exercised His legal right and seeing us sold into bondage and our inheritance taken from us came forward to redeem both us and our lost estate. His zeal against sin was tempered with His love for souls. Jesus love pined within Him because men did not know their own mercies and rejected their own salvation. It was a hard thing to come on an errand of disinterested love."
To reject that love, to ignore it is a "suicidal rejection of grace". Let us think. Let us consider, "how great a love the Father has lavished on us." Come to Christ. Love Him. Know Him. Grow in Him. Know, too, that "we love Him because He first loved us."
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