ROM. viii. 32. “He that spared not His own
Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with
Him also freely give us all things.”

THERE are a great many very sad and troubled hearts in
this world, and this is so because these hearts have lost
sunshine about them.
Let your heart find heart, and sunbeams begin to play
about you instantly; hope lights up your path, and joy
like an angel is beside you, when you lie down and when
you rise up. God knows what the heart is, and what the
heart wants it shall have—love—for God is love. And
Jesus says: “The Father loves you, as He loves Me.”
I. This little word “He” in our text. That little word
covers the immensity of God’s nature. “In Him all ful-
ness dwells.”
II. “His own Son.” That is just as wonderful. Im-
mensity is full of the sons and daughters of the Lord God,
and we among them. Why should there not be “the
First-born”? “the brightness of His glory,” the image of
the invisible God, the First-born of every creature?
III. “Us all.” We have come from God and He is in
us all. Every tree is in its seed. God is in His offspring.
We are a sad case for God, with our manifold vices, follies,
and passions. We are His cross; His Son is our ideal.
Unto us all, into us all, He hath given His own Son. He
has poured Him, like a river of life, love and light through
the heart of the race.
IV. God being what He is in His affections towards us,
will “freely give us all things.” Not being able to with-
hold His own life, what can He withhold? “Things” are
a great deal less than the heart, and if God has given us
His heart, He cannot withhold His things.
John Pulsford