The Surpassing Love of Christ

'Tis mystery all--th' Immortal dies.' Well does Charles Wesley state the awesome wonder we must feel when we view the cross of Christ, or rather the One who dies on the cross. The apostle Paul speaks of the four dimensions of Christ's love, as love with 'length and breadth and depth and height' [Eph. 3:18]. The proof of our small grace is our small gratitude to Christ for this, the magnum opus of his love toward us. But love is in every action, every word, every passion and every pang upon the cross. Not till he has carried his mediatorial task to the uttermost point of our need does he allow himself to relax in the sleep of death. But by then the cry 'It is finished!' is echoing and reverberating in every atom of the universe, not only in the rending of the veil and opening up of the Holy of holies, not only in the cracking of the graves of Old Testament saints, but in the remotest corners of this sin-cursed universe, in which now there is to be heard groaning and travailing in birth till a rejuvenated universe at last appears [Rom.8:22, 2 Pet.3:10].

from The Thought of God, by Maurice Roberts. ch.10