Greetings!
How shall we love God?
Augustine wrote:
Late have I loved you, Beauty so ancient and so
new,
late have I loved you!
Lo, you were within,
but I outside, seeking there for you,
and upon the shapely things you have made I
rushed headlong,
I, misshapen.
You were with me, but I was not with you.
They held me back far from you,
those things which would have no being
were they not in you.
You called, shouted, broke through my deafness;
you flared, blazed, banished my blindness;
you lavished your fragrance, I gasped, and now
I pant for you;
I tasted you, and I hunger and thirst;
you touched me, and I burned for your peace.
The Confessions, trans. by Maria Boulding, in The Works of St. Augustine: A Translation for the 21st Century, Part I-Books, volume 1 (New York: New City Press, 1997), X, 27, 38, p. 262.
So let us gladly love God.
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 Grace and Peace,
Dr. James C. Goodloe IV, Executive
Director
Foundation for Reformed Theology
4103 Monument Avenue
Richmond, Virginia 23230
Better Preaching, Teaching, and Pastoral Care
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