Reflection 96

On the “stupendous greatness” of God’s salvation in Christ the Redeemer – and the response of the redeemed: praise, gratitude, love, and service…coming to the cross for “the free mercy of God in Christ...

There is something so stupendously great in the salvation of God, that when we are enabled to have some realizing sense of it, one is ready to cry out, ‘Not unto me, O Lord, not unto me;’* surely I am utterly unworthy of all Thy goodness and love. So thou art, but Christ is worthy; and He shall see of the travail of His soul, and shall be satisfied.† And all the company of the redeemed, with the holy angels, and surely with myriads of myriads of beings, according to their several ranks, and orders, and faculties, and powers, shall join in adoring the infinite love of the Redeemer, and shall make up the chorus of that heavenly song, ‘Worthy is the Lamb that was slain, to receive honour, and glory, and blessing,’‡ &c. Oh may I bear a part in that bright and glad assemblage! Who will, who among them all can, have more cause than myself for gratitude and love? Meanwhile may I prove my gratitude on earth, by giving up myself to Thy service, and living universally to Thy glory. O Lord, enable me to be thus wholly Thine.

* Psalm 115:1

† Isaiah 53:11

‡ Revelation 5:12

Date: June 1807

Volume 3: Pages 339-340

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