ABOUNDING LOVE Part 5

The wisdom of the fathers

ABOUNDING LOVE Part 5

The great doctrines of religious life pervading the Word of God are to many but fleshless skeletons, like the dry bones of Ezekiel's vision; but the love of God raises them from the mere "letter," and turns them into an exceeding great army of living, moving forms of blessed experience and certainty.

The fatherhood of God, the divinity of Jesus, the efficacy of Christ's blood, God's special providential care over the minutest affairs of His children, the fellowship of holy souls, the reality of things to come, — all these and many more are rendered by this abounding love, brilliant and unquestioned certainties to the soul.

Perfect love is the only panacea for skepticism and doubt, There are three forms of knowledge, — instinctive, rational, and intuitive. Instinctive knowledge predominates mostly in the lower animals. Rational knowledge predominates mostly in the human race.

The intuitive form of knowledge is divine; it prevails among the angels and spiritually enlightened beings; hence, perfect love, bringing us into the realm of the intuitive knowledge of divine things, opens to us the highest and most certain forms of knowledge in the universe.

(from "Abounding Love" by George D. Watson)