| Finding the Way |
Chapter 9 |
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So will it be with all who truly keep themselves in the love of God. Their lives will be transformed into the grace and beauty of Christ, and the weary ones who see them and know them will have new faith in God and new love for men.
The love of God is a wonderful refuge to those who hide away in it. A favourite picture in the Old Testament is the hiding of the troubled or hunted life under the wings of the Almighty. Saint Paul has a great word about the Christian’s life being hid with Christ in God. This is indeed a marvelous hiding – in the heart of Christ, and then in this sacred enfolding carried back into the infinite depths of deity. Those who flee to the love of God for refuge are safe eternally. Neither height nor depth nor angel nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, can separate them from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
In this refuge the world’s harm never can reach us. It was in this Divine keeping that Christ Himself was sheltered that night on the sea when He slept on the boat, and the wild storm and the mad sweep of the waves did not disturb Him. He was wrapped in the folds of the same love in all the troubled hours of His trial and crucifixion. He spoke of His peace – nothing ever broke the quiet of the calm of His spirit. Then He promises to give the same peace, His own peace, to all who believe on Him. “My peace I give unto you.” “In Me ye shall have peace.” This is the benediction of those who keep themselves in the love of God.
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