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.
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