(from Octavius Winslow's "Self Communion")

Is Jesus precious to your heart?
Is He the object of your supreme
admiration and delight? Does He
have your warmest affection?
Do you love Jesus?

You must light your torch of affection for
Christ, at the altar of Calvary. You must go
there, and learn and believe what the love
of Jesus is to you: the vastness of that
love; the self sacrifice of that love; how
that love of Christ labored and wept,
bled, suffered, and died for you!

Can you stand before this love; this love
so precious, so great, so enduring, so self
consuming, so changeless, and know that
for you was this offering, for you this cross,
for you this agony, for you this scorn and
insult, for you this death, and feel no
sensibility, no emotion, no love to Jesus?

Impossible! Sit not down, then, in vain
regrets that your love to Christ is so frigid,
so fickle, so dubious. Go and muse upon
the reality and the greatness of the Savior's
love to you, and if love can inspire love,
while you muse, the fire will burn, and your
soul shall be all in flame with love to God.