Yes, He is altogether lovely!
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Song of Songs 5:16
“Yes, He is altogether lovely!
This is my Beloved, and this is my Friend!”
You will never see the pure loveliness of Jesus
–until you see your own sinful deformity!
Never will you be enamored with His love–until you cease to admire and love yourself; and with Job are brought to exclaim, “I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear; but now my eye sees You! Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes!” Then, and not until then, will the King unveil His peerless beauty to your eye!
In the person of His Incarnate Son, God presents to your gaze the divinest, the greatest, the loveliest Being in the universe!
There is a loveliness in the love of Jesus which no author can describe, nor artist portray!
A mother’s love, how self-sacrificing!
A father’s love, how fond!
A sister’s love, how pure!
Marital love, how deep!
But all human love pales and chills before the beauty of Christ’s matchless love!
Romans 5:8
“God demonstrates His own love for us in this:
While we were still sinners, Christ died for us!“
For the great love with which He loved us . . .
He relinquished Heaven, for earth,
He exchanged a crown, for a cross,
and the adoration and anthems of angels, for the wrath and execrations of men!
O King of righteousness! Was . . .
ever love so lovely,
ever love so intense,
ever love so self-sacrificing
–as Yours!
Let the beauty and attraction of Your incomparable love, win and bind my heart yet closer to You forever!
In proportion to our clearness of sight of the beauty of Christ–the closer will be our assimilation to Him.
The more we see Him, the more we shall admire Him!
The more we admire Him, the more we shall love Him!
The more we love Him, the more we shall seek to imitate and serve Him!
The outline may be imperfect, the reflection faint;
the frame which holds the picture, crude and fragile;
nevertheless, it is a resemblance to Jesus!
God recognizes and acknowledges it; and the Spirit, the Divine Artist, shall receive endless glory and praise.
1 John 3:1-3
“How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when He appears, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is! Everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure!”
Ephesians 3:18-19
“May you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should . . .
how wide,
how long,
how high, and
how deep,
His love is!
May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully!“
