The miracles of Jesus - Classical Christian Literature by Athleo.net

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things which we once saw not at all. And He has
made us see a hundred other things with wider vision
and in clearer light. He has shown us what we were
once quite blind
to—His own beauty, His all-attractive
loveliness, the beauty of His words, the beauty of
His sorrows, the beauty of His cross and forgiving love.
He has shown us ourselves as we never knew ourselves
before. He has made us see all the crooked,
dark, petty, mean, and miserable things in ourselves
which we used to pass by unconcerned, and He has
made us see also our larger capabilities, our better
and nobler selves, our immortal hopes and longings,
our immeasurable and eternal possibilities. He has
opened our eyes to the real meaning of life,
given us
a larger conception of its responsibilities and duties,
its privileges and obligations. He has filled us with
thoughts and emotions which expand the whole
nature, and made it a path which is lighted up all the
way with visions of nobler things. He has opened
our eyes to see the faces of our fellow-men as the
faces of God's children, and our own brothers.
They
are all in a measure made new to us, no longer to
be envied, competed with, neglected, forgotten,
despised, and pushed aside ;
prayed for, helped and saved.
but loved, pitied, forgiven,
He has wrought one
great miracle in all of us that we love Him. Yes, I
call that a miracle. It is nothing less. To love a
Being whom we have never seen, whose voice has not
been heard upon the earth for eighteen hundred years
and more. To love Him as a present living one, as a
friend, brother, comforter ; to love Him better than
friend or brother, with a deep, honest, abiding love,
stronger than death, that is a wonderful thing. It is