Post by MIRIAM JACOB on Jan 21, 2007 1:59:32 GMT -5
After That Ye Have Suffered A While
Are we learning love in the school of suffering?
Are our hearts being mellowed and deepened
by the summer heat of trial until the fruit of the Spirit
- love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness,
faith, meekness, temperance-is ripening for the harvest
of His coming, and our sufferings are easily
borne for His sake?
This is the school of love, and the lessons make Him
unutterably more dear to our hearts and us to His.
In this way only can we learn with Him the heavenly
charity which suffers long, and is kind.
We see that the very first and the very last features
of the face of love, as delineated in Paul's portrait of it
(1 Corinthians 13), are marks of pain and patient suffering
- suffers long, endureth all things.
So let us learn in the school of love to suffer,
to be kind and to endure all things.
Surely it will not be hard to love through
every circumstance when it is the heart of Jesus
within us that will love and continue to love
to the very end. I want the love that suffers
and is kind, that envies not nor vaunts its pride of fame.
is not puffed up, does not discourteous act,
is not provoked, nor seeks its own to claim.
A. B. SIMPSON
www.sermonindex.net
Are we learning love in the school of suffering?
Are our hearts being mellowed and deepened
by the summer heat of trial until the fruit of the Spirit
- love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness,
faith, meekness, temperance-is ripening for the harvest
of His coming, and our sufferings are easily
borne for His sake?
This is the school of love, and the lessons make Him
unutterably more dear to our hearts and us to His.
In this way only can we learn with Him the heavenly
charity which suffers long, and is kind.
We see that the very first and the very last features
of the face of love, as delineated in Paul's portrait of it
(1 Corinthians 13), are marks of pain and patient suffering
- suffers long, endureth all things.
So let us learn in the school of love to suffer,
to be kind and to endure all things.
Surely it will not be hard to love through
every circumstance when it is the heart of Jesus
within us that will love and continue to love
to the very end. I want the love that suffers
and is kind, that envies not nor vaunts its pride of fame.
is not puffed up, does not discourteous act,
is not provoked, nor seeks its own to claim.
A. B. SIMPSON
www.sermonindex.net