That blessed knowledge that the Lord
knows all, cares for all, condescends to all--That thought of a
loving human face smiling upon your joys, sorrowing over your
sorrows, watching you, educating you from youth to manhood, from
manhood to the grave, from the grave to eternities of eternities--
Whosoever has felt that, has indeed found the pearl of great price,
for which, if need be, he would give up all else in earth or heaven.
Or do you say to yourselves at times, I must not think too much
about the Lord Jesus's being man, lest I should forget that he is
God? Do you shrink from opening your heart to him? Do you say
within yourself, He is too great, too awful, to condescend to listen
to my little mean troubles and anxieties? Besides, how can I expect
him to feel for them; I, a mean, sinful man, and he the Almighty
God? How do I know that he will not despise my meanness and
paltriness? How do I know that he will not be angry with me? I
must be more reverent to him, than to trouble him with very petty
matters. He was a man once when he was upon earth: but now that he
is ascended up on high, Very God of Very God, in the glory which he
had with the Father before the worlds were made, I must have more
awful and solemn thoughts about him, and keep at a more humble
distance from him.
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