The upright love Thee.
Song of Solomon 1:4b
Love, Great-Love of my spirit! How can I love Thee more? You hold the sun, the moon, the stars Yet You're sealed within my core! Love, Great-Love of the ages! Can mortal divide with sword? Man cannot contain love with bars Or burn away what they abhor! Love, Great-Love over Heaven! Will You give me love to pour? You deserve mankind's utmost praise For it is You I long to adore!
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Believers love Jesus with a deeper affection than they dare to give to any other being. They hold all earthly comforts with a loose hand, but they carry him fast locked in their bosoms. It is scant love which the fire of persecution can dry up; the true believer’s love is a deeper stream than this. Men have labored to divide the faithful from their Master, but their attempts have been fruitless in every age.
This is no every-day attachment which the world’s power may at length dissolve. Neither man or devil have found a key which opens this lock. It is written, and nothing can blot out the sentence, “The upright love Thee.” The intensity of the love of the upright, however, is not so much to be judged by what is appears as by what the upright long for. It is our daily lament that we cannot love enough.
Like Samuel Rutherford, we sigh and cry, “Oh, for as much love as would go round about the earth, and over heaven – yea, the heaven of heavens, and ten thousand worlds – that I might let all out upon fair, fair, only fair Christ.” Oh, that we could give all the love in all hearts in one great mass, a gathering together of all loves to Him who is altogether lovely!
Charles H. Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, p. 440.
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