Devotional
Friday
That ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to
comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and
depth, and height; and to know the love of Christ, which passeth
knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of
God.—Ephesians 3:17-19.
O LOVE that passeth knowledge, thee I need; Pour in the heavenly
sunshine; fill my heart; Scatter the cloud, the doubting, and the
dread, The joy unspeakable to me impart.
H. BONAR.
TO examine its evidence is not to try Christianity; to admire its
martyrs is not to try Christianity; to compare and estimate its
teachers is not to try Christianity; to attend its rites and
services with more than Mahometan punctuality is not to try or know
Christianity. But for one week, for one day, to have lived in the
pure atmosphere of faith and love to God, of tenderness to man; to
have beheld earth annihilated, and heaven opened to the prophetic
gaze of hope; to have seen evermore revealed behind the complicated
troubles of this strange, mysterious life, the unchanged smile of an
eternal Friend, and everything that is difficult to reason solved by
that reposing trust which is higher and better than reason,—to have
known and felt this, I will not say for a life, but for a single
blessed hour, that, indeed, is to have made experiment of
Christianity.
WM. ARCHER BUTLER.