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94 And that is just the point. He stands as our highest conception of infinite goodness and truth—of infinite love and wisdom. He has given us his commands of perfect life. In these commands He has embodied in words the ideal to which He would have us attain an ideal which is reflected from his own person and life. Now when we fall in love with that perfect ideal as personally represented in Him, and as expressed in the instructions He has given us in his Word, we have fallen in love with Him. We cannot separate our ideal from his person, because in Him alone that perfect life is perfectly revealed. If we drop his personality from thought in this connection, our ideal of perfection loses its glory or sinks into something less than perfect. It is only as we remember his description of a perfect life as embodied in his instructions, and apply them to Him, Jesus, our incarnate God, and observe in Him a complete realization of a completely sinless life, that we can fall in love with the absolutely true and good as He would have us do. No mere man can reflect to us that infinitely harmonious perfection which Jesus can.

We know God, we realize God, we think of God, we love God, only as He is revealed to us in Christ. Essential divinity, as it is in its own infinite being, the finite idea cannot grasp. We can grasp it only as it is brought down to our vision. We see God,