God exhausted all His resources as to showing the manner and way of His love when He gave His only begotten Son. The sin that man brought in; the death that man brought in; the ruin that man brought in, never made any change in the heart of God; they only presented the opportunity of showing the love that was there— “perfect love.” When the Son of God was put upon the cross for me, God poured out upon me such an expression of His love as can never be shown again.
I could lie down tonight and die, saying one word, and that word, “Amen.” Amen to all that I am—to all my ruin, my misery, my degradation—nothing too bad for me, but not stopping there; there is no comfort in that; but Amen, too, to all that Christ is; Amen to all the perfect love that God is to me in Him.
If you think there is a single thought about you in the heart of God that you would sooner not have there, then you are not resting in “perfect love;” and you never can know the joy that God would have you know until you pillow your heart upon His love—His perfect love to you.
Can you let Him roll perfect love in upon your heart? If you can, it ejects fears as it comes in. “Perfect love casteth out fear.” A resting place for a poor soul in this world is only found in “perfect love.” And God would have that love which is perfect toward you, made perfect in you.