Grandest Love

Aren’t copiers grand!  Just the idea that one can lay a piece of paper on the glass and have it duplicated.  I’m sure today’s “photo copier” [copier, for short] looks very different than the first one introduced by James Watt in 1799. It’s really quite a concept.  Thanks, James!

There’s no potential for improvement to the Love of Christ!  Spurgeon wrote, “The love of Christ in its sweetness, its fullness, its greatness, its faithfulness, passeth all human comprehension.”  When I ponder the love I hold and practice toward others, words like sweetness, greatness, and faithfulness seem quite a stretch!  How is it humanly possible to love the unlovable, like the unlikable, and tolerate the intolerable – impossible! It really isn’t “humanly” possible, but “I can do all things through Christ” Who gives me the strength (Philippians 4:13).  Oh, how we have forgotten it is we (you and me) who were unlovable, unlikable, and intolerable in our destitute state of sinfulness yet Christ loved and rescued us (Romans 5:8).  “To be a man was something, to be a man of sorrows was far more,” Spurgeon adds.   It’s so easy to give up on people, quit trying, and walk away when Master Love calls us to love – to stay – to persevere.  Oh that we “may be able to comprehend … what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge.” (Ephesians 3:18-19).  James Watt would be proud of how advanced his invention has become; there lies no improvement, however, on the Love of Christ only the advancement of Its sweet and bountiful application in the lives of those who love Him and claim His Name.  It is the Grandest Love!