The Love of Jesus Christ

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Love is the last and highest service that man can render. All else leads up to love and ends in it. Faith itself is the basis only; it needs to be made perfect by charity, and to receive its practical and efficient form from charity. Jesus Christ is the image and manifestation of the Divinity; we see God in Him, and we love God in loving Him. As man, Our Lord is deserving of all our love, and He possesses in an eminent degree all those qualities which command human love. 

1. He has supreme beauty as human and as divine, on earth and in glory, in His person, His character, His life. "Thou art beautiful above the sons of men (Ps. xliv. 3). 

2. His words made the hearts of men burn within them while He was on earth. "Grace is poured forth in Thy lips" (Ps. xliv. 3). We have these words written in the Gospels, and whispered by Him in our souls. 

3. The works of Jesus towards men are full of benevolence, generosity, utility, grandeur. 

4. His magnificent gifts are another inducement to love Him. He has given us all that we have, and much more than we are as yet able to appreciate, He has given us Himself with all His infinity. None other has bestowed so much. Consider each of these points separately; see how they show the surpassing goodness of Our Lord, how much He deserves from you in return, and how little you have rendered to Him hitherto.

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