TO BASK IN HIS LOVE

 

Oliver Cowdery would have to be one of the greatest proofs to the unbelieving that we can have an intimate relationship with Christ. A relationship cannot be more intimate when the person knows all your thoughts and intents of your heart.  

Our thoughts and our intents are the most private possessions we have. Nobody can know what we are thinking or feeling unless we allow them to. Our thoughts are exclusively our own…..except for one person: “….there is none else save God that knowest thy thoughts and the intents of thy heart” (D&C 6:16)

This is how the Saviour proved this fact to Oliver: He reminded him of the night he cried in his heart to know the truth. Nobody else knew of this but the Lord, who said to him, “Did I not speak peace to your mind concerning the matter? What greater witness can you have than from God?

God knows us intimately whether we allow Him or not, but to know Him and enjoy the intimacy which this knowledge affords, one must let Him in.

Consider this of Christ and see if you would not let him in:

“The greatest definition of ‘the pure love of Christ’ is not what we as Christians try but largely fail to demonstrate toward others but rather what Christ totally succeeded in demonstrating toward us.

“True charity has been known only once. It is shown perfectly and purely in Christ’s unfailing, ultimate, and atoning love for us. It is Christ’s love for us that ‘suffereth long, and is kind, and envieth not’. It is His love for us that is not ‘puffed up, not easily provoked, thinketh no evil’.

“It is Christ’s love for us that ‘beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things’. It is as demonstrated in Christ that “charity never faileth”. It is that charity – His pure love for us – without which we would be nothing, hopeless, of all men and women most miserable.

“Truly, those found possessed of the blessings of His love at the last day – the Atonement, the Resurrection, eternal life, eternal promise – surely it shall be well with them….” 

-        - Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, Christ and the New Covenant [1997], 336-37

Could somebody else possibly love you as He would?

“Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him……..” (Revelation 3:20).

 

You knock on the door of my heart

And I often forget to turn the key.

With sorrowing steps You retreat

Hoping that one day I will remember Thee.

 

Of my undying love

I give Thee a token,

I will keep the door open.

- CATHRYNE ALLEN

(Art: Jesus Knocking, AI Generated by masterofmoments)