That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith.
Ephesians 3:17
"BEYOND
measure it is desirable that we, as believers, should have the person of
Jesus constantly before us,
and to
increase our knowledge of Him.
I would to God that my readers were all
entered as diligent scholars in Jesus' college, students of Corpus
Christi, or the body of Christ, resolved to attain unto a good degree in
the learning of the cross.
---But to have Jesus ever near, the heart must
be full of Him, welling up with His love, even to overrunning; hence the
apostle prays "that Christ may dwell in your hearts."
Observe the words—that He may dwell in your heart,
that best room of the house of manhood; not in your thoughts alone, but
in your affections; not merely in the mind's meditations, but in the
heart's emotions.
We should pant after love to Christ of a most abiding
character, not a love that flames up and then dies out into the darkness
of a few embers, but a constant flame, fed by sacred fuel, like the
fire upon the altar which never went out.
If love be cold, be
sure that faith is drooping."
Charles Spurgeon
