Of earthly love we often say with sadness:—
“Space is against thee: it can part!
Time is against thee: it can chill!”
Not so with the love of Christ. Neither death nor life parts the soul from Him. Our love to the Lord Jesus Christ seats us with Him in the heavenly places,—above the realm of decay, above this wasting flesh and perishing world.
FOOTNOTES:
[176] Col. i. 24—ii. 1; Phil. i. 16.
[177] Ch. ii. 7, iii. 10; Phil. i. 20; 2 Tim. iv. 17.
[178] I Thess. v. 25; 2 Thess. iii. 1; Rom. xv. 30–32; Col. iv. 3, etc.
[179] Out of the instances in which the English Version renders λόγος in St Paul by utterance, the Revisers have substituted word for utterance only in Col. iv. 3. One wishes they had done so throughout. For λόγος surely implies the content, the import of what is said. This passage reminds us of John xvii. 14: “I have given them Thy word”; and xiv. 24: “The word which ye hear is not mine, but His.”
[180] Ἐν παρρησίᾳ: comp. iii. 12; Phil. i. 20; Philem. 8; 2 Cor. vii. 4; 1 Thess. ii. 2, etc.
[181] Phil. i. 25, 26, ii. 23, 24; Philem. 22.