"Yes, I Have Loved You With An Everlasting Love."

So mighty--yet so loving!

(John MacDuff, "Ripples in the Twilight" 1885)

What a wonderful SAVIOR 

So mighty--yet so loving! 

Spurning, indeed, all baseness and 

vileness, all mere lip-homage and hypocrisy.

Upsetting all false human ideals and empty philosophies.

At war with conventional empty religious rituals.

Denouncing every white-washed sepulcher 

that serves only to screen spiritual rottenness.

But welcoming . . .

  many of those who were looked 

    at askance by their fellows;

  some who were the subjects 

    of social ostracism;

  those deemed fit only to be trampled, 

    as bruised battered flowers, 

    underneath the feet; 

the repentant harlot and sinner, 

the prodigal, the outcast, the lost.

HIS heart is a very hive of tenderness . . .

  washing HIS disciples' feet in token of humility;

  standing by the grave of buried affection;

  wiping away the tear of bereavement;

  calming the paroxysms of untold sorrow;

  arrested by the penitential sighings 

  of the contrite spirit.

In a word, imparting . . .

  rest to the weary and heavy-laden,

  hope to the desponding,

  sympathy to the mourner,

  healing to the brokenhearted; and

  finally showing, in the scenes 

of Gethsemane and Calvary 

which crowned that Incarnation 

of suffering love--

what HE the Divine Man could 

do and dare for perishing sinners.

The kindness of the kindest 

on earth has a limit--

HIS had none.

Human affection and love 

may come and go--

but HIS flows on forever!

"Yes, I have loved you with an 
everlasting love; therefore with 
lovingkindness I have drawn you!" 
Jeremiah 31:3

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GraceGems has published John MacDuff's superb comforting article,
 "Loving Counsels".