ABOUNDING LOVE Part 7

The wisdom of the fathers

ABOUNDING LOVE Part 7

The Psalmist says, " O taste and see that the Lord is good " which cannot mean a physical but a spiritual tasting. Perfect love floods the inner senses with such vigor, vivacity and keenness that the soul moves in a kingdom utterly unknown to others.

It perceives the path of duty where others see only confusion, it can detect the presence of good or evil where others do not ; it can feel the warmth or the ice in the midst of a congregation of worshipers; it can hear God's voice sounding over land and sea; it intuitively knows things, without being told, which others are oblivious to.

No one can describe the subtle, ethereal, rapid movement of the inner senses when acting under the fullness of God's love. Not only in the hour of death, but in many seasons and ways, —

The world recedes, it disappears;

Heaven opens on the eyes;

the ears with sound seraphic ring.

Not only the sinners, but the great mass of nominal Christians, walk the earth with their souls encoffined, with their spiritual senses locked in death; or if brought to life, are so choked and diseased with carnality as to be unable to perceive the thousands of things that are transpiring in the spiritual realm. Nothing less than pure love controlling the soul can bring the spiritual faculties to their proper normal function.

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