(Reade, "Christian Experience")

"May you experience the love of Christ,
 though it is so great you will never
 fully understand it."  Ephesians 3:19

What are all the vanities of this world,
but painted bubbles, when compared
with this eternal treasure?

Is there not then cause for apprehension,
lest, while we profess much love for Christ,
our hearts should cleave unto the dust?

Are we not in danger of making a home of
this world, and of setting up our rest here,
as if this wilderness were the promised
Canaan, rather than the road through
which we have to pass to get to it?