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You see that God's mercy to them would not make them conceited or
careless. It would increase their shame and confusion when they
found out what sort of a Lord He was against whom they had been
rebellious; long-suffering and of tender mercy, returning good for
evil to His disobedient children. That feeling would awake in them
more shame and more confusion than ever: but it would be a noble
shame, a happy confusion, and tears of joy and gratitude, not of
bitterness. Such a shame, such a confusion, such tears, as the
blessed Magdalene's when she knelt at the Lord's feet, and found
that, instead of bating her and thrusting her away for all her sins,
He told her to go in peace, pardoned and happy. Then she knew the
Lord; she found out His character--His name; for she found out that
His name was love. Oh, my friends, this is the great secret; the
only knowledge worth living for, because it is the only knowledge
which will enable you to live worthily--to know the Lord. That
knowledge will enable you to live a life which will last, and grow,
and prosper for ever, beyond the grave, and death, and judgment, and
eternities of eternities. As the Lord Himself said, when He was upon
earth, "This is eternal life, to know Thee, the only true God, and
Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.
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