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WORKS OF PROSE
His Greatest Act of Obedience
Christ's holiness never had such a trial as it had with the agonies of the cross, and therefore never did it have so great a manifestation. When it was tried in this furnace it came forth as gold, or as silver purified seven times. His holiness then, above all, appeared in his steadfast pursuit of the honor of God, and in his obedience to Him. For his yielding himself unto death was transcendently the greatest act of obedience that ever was paid to God by any one since the foundation of the world.
Manifestation Revealed
The greatness of Christ's love toward sinful man appears in nothing so much as in its being a dying love. That blood of Christ, which fell in great drops to the ground, in his agony, was shed of a love for God's enemies, and his own. That shame and spitting, that torment of body, and that exceeding sorrow, even unto death, which he endured in his soul, was what he underwent of a love toward rebels against God to save them from hell, and to purchase for them eternal glory. Never did Christ so eminently show his regard to God's honor, as in offering up himself as a victim of Justice. And yet in this above all, he manifested his love toward those who dishonored God, so as to bring such guilt on themselves, that nothing less than his blood could atone for it.
WORKS OF POETRY
Loving Obedience
It was not from any hatred of him,
Rather from a hatred of our sin
That Christ suffered so much from the Father
And died for the sins of mortal men.
On that cross the Father forsook him,
by taking away the comforts of His presence
Yet the manifestation of Christ's love to Him
Was seen in love's sweet obedience.
Silhouette of Love
On a hill far, far away
Stood three crosses established in a row
Two hanging upon them were sinners of today
While one was pure and perfectly whole.
The two died the way of sinners
The one died only to be raised again
To bring salvation to all the world
That God's love might be seen of men.
Copyright 2002 by Jettie Hess
