Name of Jesus! Highest name!
Name that earth and heaven adore;
From the heart of God it came,
Leads me to God’s heart once more.
Name of Jesus! Living tide!
Days of drought for me are past;
How much more than satisfied
Are the thirsty lips at last.
Only Jesus! Fairest name!
Life and rest, and peace and bliss!
Jesus, evermore the same;
He is mine, and I am His.
G.T.S.
The Lord Jesus began in a manger and ended on the cross, and along the way He had not where to lay His head.
A Jesus dying on the cross for the vilest meets the wants and burdens of the vilest. . . . If his sins are a burden to him, he may see Christ bearing them that he may be free and have peace.
The more we see the value of the cross, the more precious will Christ be to us.
If Jesus sees perfection in us, we need nothing more.
The Holy Spirit is a power that detaches us from everything and binds us to that which is invisible — to Christ in heaven and to the love of the Father.
“Her sins . . . are forgiven; for she loved much” (Luke 7:36-5036And one of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him. And he went into the Pharisee's house, and sat down to meat. 37And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment, 38And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment. 39Now when the Pharisee which had bidden him saw it, he spake within himself, saying, This man, if he were a prophet, would have known who and what manner of woman this is that toucheth him: for she is a sinner. 40And Jesus answering said unto him, Simon, I have somewhat to say unto thee. And he saith, Master, say on. 41There was a certain creditor which had two debtors: the one owed five hundred pence, and the other fifty. 42And when they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them both. Tell me therefore, which of them will love him most? 43Simon answered and said, I suppose that he, to whom he forgave most. And he said unto him, Thou hast rightly judged. 44And he turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, Seest thou this woman? I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my feet: but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head. 45Thou gavest me no kiss: but this woman since the time I came in hath not ceased to kiss my feet. 46My head with oil thou didst not anoint: but this woman hath anointed my feet with ointment. 47Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little. 48And he said unto her, Thy sins are forgiven. 49And they that sat at meat with him began to say within themselves, Who is this that forgiveth sins also? 50And he said to the woman, Thy faith hath saved thee; go in peace. (Luke 7:36‑50)). The Lord is able to make this pardon known. He reveals it to the poor woman. But it was that which she had seen in Jesus Himself which, by grace, melted her heart and produced the love she had to Him — the seeing what He was for sinners like herself. She thinks only of Him. He has taken possession of her heart so as to shut out other influences. . . . She goes into the house of this proud man without thinking of anything but the fact that Jesus is there. . . . She saw what He was for a sinner and that the most wretched and disgraced found a resource in Him. . . . A Saviour-God being present, of what importance was Simon and his house? Jesus caused all else to be forgotten. Let us remember this.
Whatever enfeebles attachment to Christ destroys power. It is not gross sin that does it, which of course will be . . . judged, but it is the little things of everyday life which are apt to be chosen before Christ.
If I have that in and about me which distresses the soul, I have that in Him which is unfailing joy and comfort. . . . Where could one’s heart turn for rest if it had not Jesus to rest in? With Him let heaven and earth be turned upside down, and still I have a rest.
There is power to attract out of every corruption around and to gather the soul into the thoughts and ways of God by the revelation of Christ Himself.
“That on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.” . . . If people have not got Christ, they tire. There will be no enduring unless Christ has possession of the soul, but if He has, there will be an abiding motive, and people will go on and “bring forth fruit with patience.” . . . Trouble may come in in the church; disappointment may arise, even from the brethren, but they go on just the same, because they have got Christ before them, for the word they have heard and keep connects them with Christ, and He is more than anything else.
J