Christ, all in all.

A wise friend of mine once wrote, "Sometimes life can allow one to get so caught in theology, that we miss that closeness of that countenance of love from He who is the Truth." This is so very true. Lately, amidst accusations of my being a unrepentent liar, a cultist, and several other such things, I found it needful to get back to basics, as it were, and focus on that One of whom we ought never to lose focus. I found these words from a Samuel Ward sermon on Colossians 3:11 --

All let him be in all thy loves, and above all other beloveds; when thou hast gotten him, think not enough to make much of him, but remember he well deserves to be, and must be, all in all. Take him not by the hand, but embrace him with both thine arms of love, and hold him with all thy might; love him till thou be sick of love for him; such as will suffice any one ordinary object, wife, friend, health, or wealth, will not give him content, nay, not a compound of many, but a catholicon of all; as he hath deserved, so he deservedly challengeth. All thy weak rivulets united will scarce make one current strong enough for him. He that did all suffered all, took all thine infirmities, finished all for thee; is it not reason he should be all in all, without any corrival in thy affections? Such as entertain princes can never think they shew love enough unto them, and shall anything be enough for this Prince of our peace and salvation? I cannot but reverence the memory of that reverend divine, who, being in a deep muse after some discourse that had passed of Christ, and tears trickling abundanlty from his eyes before he was aware, being urged for the cause thereof, confessed ingenuously it was because he could not draw his dull heart to prize Christ aright. A rare mind in Christians, who think every little enough, and too much for him.