Monday, August 23, 2021

To Inflame & Increase

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, 
 
to inflame our love towards Him, 
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