July 30

Second Tuesday after Trinity

Come; for all things are now ready. S. Luke 14:17.

WHERE, above all, shouldest thou seek for His love but in the Feast of His Love? Without it ye cannot have any true love. In it Jesus willeth to come to thee, to dwell in thee. "How should ye have life, if ye have not Him Who is Life? How should ye have Him, if ye refuse to come to Him? Come to Him, longing for His love; pray Him to enter into your soul and pour His love into you, and He will come and will dwell in you everlastingly. O abyss of love, torrent of pleasure, life of them that believe, paradise of delights, comfort of our pilgrimage, reward of the blessed, root of all good, strength in all strife, rest in all weariness!" Why seek for pleasures which perish in the grasp, and when tasted become bitterness? why love vanities, when ye have before you love which cannot weary, cannot change, cannot fail? for love is the essence, the bliss, the being, the glory of God. This may be yours for evermore. God, in Whom are all things, Who is all goodness, willeth that ye love Him eternally, be eternally filled with His love, and enter into His joy, the joy of the everlasting Father in His co-equal Son through the Spirit, of both proceeding, the bond of both, and that ye should rest in the Bosom of His love, and His love rest upon you and fill you for ever, that ye may have for ever His love which passeth all understanding, and be one with God, being filled with the love of God.

In full fruition of exhaustless life, In Christ's rich pastures of salvation.