Christ's Love Cannot Be Measured

[Thompson, Darryl]

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Ellen G. White Estate, Devotional for October 17
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Christ's Love Cannot Be Measured

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor
principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor
height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us
from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Rom. 8:38, 39.

Christ might, because of our guilt, have moved far from us. But instead
of moving farther away from us, He came and dwelt among us, filled with
all the fullness of the Godhead, to be one with us, that through His
grace we might attain to perfection. By a death of shame and suffering
He paid man's ransom. What self-sacrificing love is this! From the
highest excellency He came, His divinity clothed with humanity,
descending step by step to the very depths of humiliation. No line can
measure the depth of this love. Christ has shown us how much God can
love and our Redeemer suffer in order to secure our complete
restoration. He desires His children to reveal His character, to exert
His influence, that other minds may be drawn into harmony with His mind.

Christ, our Saviour, in whom dwelt absolute perfection, became sin for
the fallen race. He did not know sin by the experience of sinning, but
He bore the terrible weight of the guilt of the whole world. He became
our propitiation, that all who receive Him may become sons of God. The
cross was erected to save man. Christ lifted on the cross was the means
devised in heaven for awakening in the repenting soul a sense of the
sinfulness of sin. By the cross Christ sought to draw all to Himself. He
died as the only hope of saving those who, because of sin, were in the
gall of bitterness. Through the agency of the Holy Spirit, a new
principle of mental and spiritual power was to be brought to man, who,
through association with divinity, was to become one with God.


To break down the barriers that Satan had erected between God and man,
Christ made a full and complete sacrifice, revealing unexampled
self-denial. He revealed to the world the amazing spectacle of God
living in human flesh, and sacrificing Himself to save fallen man. What
wonderful love! As I consider it, I weep to think that so many of those
who claim to believe the truth are encrusted with selfishness. . . . 

I marvel that professing Christians do not grasp the divine resources;
that they do not see the cross more clearly as the medium of forgiveness
and pardon, the means of bringing the proud, selfish heart of man into
direct contact with the Holy Spirit, that the riches of Christ may be
poured into the mind, and the human agent be adorned with the graces of
the Spirit, that Christ may be commended to those who know Him not.

>From Devotional: Our Father Cares, p. 269.