Christ's Sympathy To Weary Pilgrims # 3

Christ's Sympathy To Weary Pilgrims # 3

The Personal Attractions of Jesus

Yes, He is altogether lovely! This is my Beloved, and this is my Friend! (Song of Songs 5:16).

The personal attractions of Jesus are all inviting and irresistible!

His love within us.
His glory charms us.
His beauty attracts us.
His sympathy soothes us.
His gentleness subdues us.
His faithfulness inspires us.

He is the "altogether lovely One!"

Jesus is all that is tender in love.
Jesus is all that is wise in counsel.
Jesus is all that is patient and kind.
Jesus is all that is faithful in friendship.
Jesus is all that is balmy, soothing, and healing.

The heart of Jesus is ever loving towards His children.
The disposition of Jesus is ever kind towards His children.
The nature of Jesus is ever sympathizing towards His children.

Jesus is your Brother, your Friend, your Redeemer.
As your Brother - He knows the need of His brethren in adversity.
As your Friend - He shows Himself Friendly.
As your Redeemer - He has redeemed your soul from sin and hell.
Jesus has ascended up on high to take possession of heaven on your behalf, and to prepare a place for you!
Upon His heart He wears your name as a precious pearl in the priestly breastplate.

There is...
not a moment of your time,
nor an event of your life,
nor a circumstance of your daily history,
nor a mental or spiritual emotion of yours -
in which you are not borne upon the love, and
remembered in the ceaseless intercession of Christ.

Yes, He is altogether lovely! This is my Beloved, and this is my Friend! (Song of Songs 5:16).

For You!

"The Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me!" (Galatians 2:20).

Is Jesus precious to your heart?

Is He the object of your supreme admiration and delight?

Does He have your warmest affection?

Do you love Jesus?

You must light your torch of affection for Christ - at the altar of Calvary. You must go there, and learn and believe what the love of Jesus is to you: the vastness of that love; the self-sacrifice of that love; how that love of Christ labored and wept, bled, suffered, and died for you!

Can you stand before this love - this love so precious, so great, so enduring, so self-consuming, so changeless; and know that...
for you this was this offering,
for you this Cross,
for you this agony,
for you this scorn and insult,
for you this death -
And feel no sensibility, no emotion, no love to Jesus? Impossible!

Do not be cast down, then, in vain regrets that your love to Christ is so frigid, so fickle, so dubious. Go and muse upon the reality and the greatness of the Saviour's love to you - and if love can inspire love, while you muse, the fire will burn, and your soul shall be all in flame with love to Jesus!

He Will Be Our Guide Even Unto Death!

"For this God is our God forever and ever! He will be our guide even unto death!" (Psalm 48:14).

The world passes away. Everything here in this present world is changing.

"Life is like a painted dream;
Like the rapid summer stream;
Like the fleeting meteor's ray;
Like the shortest winter's day;
Like the fitful breeze that sighs;
Like the waning flame that dies;
Darting, dazzling on the eye;
Fading in eternity!"

A rope of sand,
a spider's web,
a silken thread,
a passing shadow,
an ebbing wave,

are the most fitting and expressive emblems of all things belonging to this present earthly state. The homes that sheltered us in childhood - we leave. The land which gave us birth - we leave. The loved ones who encircled our hearths - pass away. The friends of early years - depart. And the world that was so sunny, and the life that was so sweet - is all beclouded and embittered - the whole scenery of existence changed into wintry gloom. Such are the saddening, depressing effects of life's vicissitudes.

But in the midst of all, "This God is our God forever and ever! All beings change - but God. All things change - but heaven. The evolutions of time revolve, the events of earth go onward, but He upon whom all things hang, and by whom all events are shaped and controlled, moves not. "For I am the Lord, I change not."

Our affairs may alter.
Our circumstances may change.
Our relations and friends may depart one by one.
Our souls in a single day pass through many fluctuations of spiritual feeling.
But He who chose us to be His own, and who has kept us to the present moment - is our covenant God and Father forever and ever, and will never throw us off and cast us away.

"For this God is our God forever and ever! He will be our guide even unto death!"

~Octavius Winslow~