Oh this is so good!
In discussing The Good Samaritan, Archbishop Trench writes about the question of "Whom shall I love?" given by a young lawyer. "...for he wished to have laid down beforehand how much he was to do, and where he should be at liberty to stop, -who had a claim and who not upon his love; thus proving that he knew little of that love, whose essence is that it has no limit, except in its own inability to proceed further, that it receives a law only from itself, that it is a debt which we must be well content to be ever paying, and not less still to owe (Rom. xiii.)." Oh I am so excited to meet this man from whom I often quote, in heaven some day! I believe that the encouragement for our lives today is often most profoundly given in lives led well from the past. Archbishop Trench has been in heaven longer than his years on earth...yet today his words of Truth ring clear as fuel for the daily question of how to live and whom we shall love. If we were to stand on the witness stand at this moment, and a flood of questions were directed our way, have we lived in a manner in which we could answer all questions of our actions in truth, without fear or shame? Are we living our lives fueled by the love that never ends and loving endlessly? Are we silent or do we have a well of things to say that would bless and direct others to the truth we know about life? I am considering this in the light of all things today.
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