God lives and works today, and his innermost
heart is filled with love for us, his
children.
He longs to make our lives rich and
happy, as you will hear in today's meditation
by Basile Schlenk called, Do You Love Me?
Jesus' love everlasting, he came to us below,
that God to all his children a selfless
love might show.
In John 21, Jesus asked his disciple Peter,
Do you love me?
And Jesus is asking us the same question,
Do you love me?
Only if you love him more than anything
else will you come to know his love.
For he doesn't reveal his heart to those
who only give him a little love, only
a divided love.
He doesn't pour out his love and the
benefits of his love, even earthly gifts, over
them.
They will not come to know how he
repays a hundredfold what they gave to him.
Jesus tells us in John 14 that he
will only reveal himself to those who really
love him.
Their whole hearts will be filled with heavenly
bliss, even in the midst of suffering, because
he, the King of heaven, love itself has
come to dwell in them.
Consider therefore what you're missing, both in time
and in eternity, if you love Jesus only
half-heartedly.
You are missing the greatest blessing which is
offered to man.
Only those who have loved Jesus here with
a first love will be able to share
in the marriage supper of the Lamb, in
the great union of love between Jesus and
the bridal souls, in the hour of bliss
which all heaven has been living for.
If you want to win Jesus, who is
knocking at your door, here is constant plea,
I want you completely deliver everything up to
him, even every feeling or thought that centers
on people, on all earthly and created things
apart from him.
Jesus is waiting to receive our undivided love.
He is waiting for us to yield to
him our feelings, our thoughts and desires.
He extravagantly bestows his gifts upon those who
love him above everything else.
He loves them beyond measure.
Isn't it true that Jesus, whose love is
like a fiery sun, like the most powerful
magnet, should take us entirely into his possession,
and that we should forsake all else for
him?
Certainly, we can ask him to make us
entirely his, and he will do it.
This is the plea that Jesus is really
waiting for, and he will fulfill it.
O make me thine, my Savior, Lord most
holy, that I may only live to give
thee glory.
O make me thine, O make me thine,
who for my sake did suffer.
Let me in gratitude thee comfort offer by
hating sin.
O make me thine, take all I love
and treasure, my life, my honor, if that
brings thee pleasure and shows my love.
Yes, make me thine.
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