OB 36:5{And this mighty and tender heart is for thee! If He had only stretched forth His hand to save us from bare destruction, and said, "My hand for thee!" how could we have praised Him enough? But what shall we say of the unspeakably marvelous condescension which says, "Thou hast ravished [margin, taken. away] my heart, my sister, my spouse!" The very fountain of His divine life, and light, and love, the very center of His being, is given to His beloved ones, who are not only "set as a seal upon His heart," but taken into His heart, so that our life is hid there, and we dwell there in the very center of all safety, and power, and love, and glory. What will be the revelation of that day, when the Lord Jesus promises, "Ye shall know that I am in My Father, and ye in Me"? For He implies that we do not yet know it, and that our present knowledge of this dwelling in Him is not knowledge at all compared with what He is going to show us about it. Now shall we, can we, reserve any corner of our hearts from Him?
We thirst for God, our treasure is above;
Earth has no gift our one desire to meet.
And that desire is pledge of His own love.
Sweet question; with no answer! oh how sweet!
My heart in chiming gladness o'er and o'er
Sings on—God's everlasting love!
What wouldst thou more?