Is there one answer to all your tears, all your desires, all your prayers? God has one answer and that is Christ. If you are passing through bereavement and sorrow and the heart feels it – God intends you to feel it – it is to find Christ. Blessed compensation. If I have been through deep sorrow and found Christ, what blessed contemplation. I have found that He is more than enough to fill every breach. Do you think I could, by searching with my brain, find out Christ? Every bit of appreciation of Christ has been through a sense of need. It is an experiential thing, not a doctrinal thing. There is no such thing as a mere doctrinal knowledge of Christ. No. I beg your attention to it; every bit of apprehension you may have of Christ, you have been led into the knowledge of and the blessedness of, experimentally.
(William Johnson, London, early 1900s)
Golden Nugget Number 271
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