A prayer for great affection by Alistair Beg.

Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any

common sharing in the spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy

complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind.

Philippians 2, 1 through 2.

Believers love Jesus with a deeper affection than they dare to give

any other being. They would sooner lose Father and Mother than part with Christ.

They hold all earthly comforts with a loose hand, but they carry him locked tight in their hearts.

They voluntarily deny themselves for his sake, but they are not to be driven to deny him.

It is a feeble love that the fight that they are not to be driven to deny him.

It is a feeble love that the fire of persecution can dry up.

The true believer's love is a deeper stream than this.

Men have tried to divide the faithful from their master, but their attempts have been fruitless in every age.

Neither crowns of honor nor frowns of anger would have been able to untie this loving knot. This is not just a routine attachment

that the world's power may eventually dissolve. Neither man nor devil have found a key that opens

this lock. Never has the craft of Satan been more

at fault than when he has exercised it in seeking to break this union of two divinely

welded hearts. It is written and nothing can blot out the sentence,

rightly do they love you. The intensity of the love of the upright however is not so much to be judged by how it appears as by what the upright long for.

It is our daily lament that we cannot love enough.

If only our hearts were capable of holding more and reaching further.

Like Samuel Rutherford, we sigh and cry, Oh for as much love as would go round about the earth,

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