The Love of Jesus
O Father of Jesus,
Help me to approach Thee with deepest reverence, not with presumption
not with servile fear, but with holy boldness
Thou art beyond the grasp of my understanding,
but not beyond that of my love,
Thou knowest that I love Thee supremely,
for Thou art supremely adorable, good, perfect,
My heat melts at the love of Jesus,brother, bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh
married to me, dead for me, risen for me;
He is mine and I am His,
given to me as well as for me;
I am never so much mine as when I am His,
or so much lost to myself until lost in Him;
then I find my true manhood.
Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions, by Arthur Bennett, p. 25.
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