a mystery of unfathomable love. By David Harsha. Ephesians chapter
5, verse 2. Christ loved us and gave himself
up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. In the
sin-atoning sufferings and death of Christ, we behold the most
astonishing exhibition of divine love that has ever been manifested
to a lost world. Such love as is here displayed
is without a precedent. Yes, without a parallel in the
annals of time or in the records of eternity. To behold the Son
of God, the Maker of worlds, bowing His head on the cross
and yielding up His immaculate soul amid the agonies of death,
is the most amazing, the most affecting, the most melting sight
that mortals ever witnessed. Around the cross of Christ shine
the most resplendent rays of divine love that ever beamed
from the sun of righteousness, that ever emanated from the deity.
O my soul, behold and wonder. Behold your Savior bleeding on
the cruel cross. See Him bleeding from His head,
His hands, His feet, His heart, that your sins might be washed
away in the flowing stream. See Him pouring out His soul
unto death for your salvation. Is not this a manifestation of
unparalleled love to you? Christ's suffering and dying
for us is a great mystery, a mystery of unfathomable love. How vehement
was the love of Christ that led Him to endure death in its most
terrible form, even the death of the cross. Such is the love
of Christ. All the waters of affliction
and suffering, all the billows of divine wrath that rolled over
our blessed Redeemer, were not sufficient to quench the ardency
of that love which He felt for His beloved people. the Son of
God, who loved me and gave himself for me. Galatians chapter 2 verse
20.