May 27

Monday of the First Week after Easter

For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. 1 S. John 5:7.

WHO is the Object of faith? God the Father, Who created us and gave His Son to die for us; God the Son, Who became one of us, and by dying redeemed us; God the Holy Ghost, Who sanctifieth us, and "pours forth love," which He is, "abroad in our hearts." We were as stocks and stones without faith; but He died, even "of these stones to raise up children to Abraham." Are we stocks or stones now, that having faith, we can believe without loving? Which of His acts of boundless love should we believe without loving? Were it not enough to bear us out of ourselves for love, to transport us, to make us give up our lives for love, to carry us away out of ourselves and of all that we are, to think that for us, earthworms and defiled, Jesus died? Does not the very Name of Jesus make the heart beat and tremble and thrill with love?

Then why not love Thee from my heart?

Why, Jesus, not love Thee, Who art All love for me?

And not for hope of endless joys,

Or fear of endless miseries;

But all for Thee!

'Twas love, O Saviour, made Thee mine;

And love alone can make me Thine;

Then Jesus, then

Thee will I love, and Thee adore,

My King, and God, for evermore.

Amen! Amen!