♦Suffering and Love♦
Is the Causal Law a cruel Law, since death to life appears to be its
true meaning?
Jesus, speaking with the authority of a perfect understanding of the
Father-heart, speaks of the Law as in its essence pure Love. The
Father, Himself Love, introduced the Law, and the Law lies very deep in
Love since He Himself obeyed it. _God so loved, that He gave._
There is no attempt to minimize the suffering which lies inside the Law
in the case of a world which has defied it. Jesus, the Saviour, knew
strong crying and tears during those dark days of the sowing of the
seed. But already He saw of the travail of His soul and was satisfied.
The Father’s Name--that is the newly-revealed Name, Father--is
glorified. The defeat of the arch-enemy is assured. The life-giving
power of the Cross is realized, for all the world and for all time, as
in a vision of glory. These were the thoughts which upheld the Saviour
of the world, as He, resolutely refusing all relief, faced the days
which lay before Him. Thus, the grain of wheat, falling into the ground
and dying, has already borne a great Harvest. (See St. John xii. 24-36.)
“_The great lesson of love is to die unto oneself. Christ’s love is
always shown through death, just because the death of self is both
the greatest expression of, and the only way to love. The two things
go together inseparably; in fact, they are opposite faces of the same
thing. And that dying is eternal life._”
“_The pages blotted with tears are not always the darkest to look back
upon. One page in the world’s history, stained with the bitterest tears
ever shed upon earth, and steeped in guiltless blood, is not the darkest
to read. It is in the light of that sorrow, and that sin, thou must
learn to understand all the rest. All these hard and bitter questions
are answered there to the holy heart: nowhere else, and to none else._”