Love Of Christ, Inheritance of
Christ's love secures believers' eternal inheritance and all spiritual blessings.
Argories of wealth, rocks of diamond, mines of gold, all the treasures that interlace the solid globe, all the glories that glow in the solemn armies of the stars, are not to be compared with the things God has prepared for you. Think of the promises; they are all yours. Think of all the agencies of human instruction, — "whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas;" they are yours. Think of the world; it is yours. Think of life; it is yours. Think of death — "I find death named in this inventory," said the dying James Hervey; death is yours. Think of afflictions; they can only bless you: you are not theirs; they are yours. Think of things present, or things to come; in magnificent over-measure, all are yours. Think of all that is represented by that great word, "God;" who can fathom it? "Nothing is easier," says Pulsford, "than to say the word 'universe;' and yet it would take us millions of millions of years to bestow one hasty glance upon the surface of that small portion of it which lies within the range of our glasses. But what are all suns, connois, garths, moons, atmospheres, seas, rivers, mountains, valleys, plains, woods, cattle, wild beasts, fish, fowl, grasses, plants, shrubs, minerals, and metals, compared with the meaning of the one name, 'God'?" Yet God is yours. And all this is the gift of a Saviour's love. Stanford.