Song of Songs: The Greatest Love Story in the World

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For August 31        The Testimony of His Enemies               They hated me without a cause--Joh 15:25               Love Is Not Blind              I take it that if you want to understand a person, the first essential is that you should love him. It is only love that sees into the deeps and reads the story in the light of God. There is a proverb which says that love is blind. If that were true, then God would have no eyes. Love is not blind. It has the keenest sight. It can read the smallest print without assistance. And we call it blind because the things we see and, seeing, can detect no beauty in, are to the eyes of love transfigured, like a window that reflects the sunset. It is when I am told that God is lo...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For August 29        The Great Comparison               As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you--Joh 15:9               The Love of Christ              That their blessed Master loved them was one thing which the disciples never doubted. It was the crowning glory of their years. There are those who always find it easy to believe that other people love them. They accept love as the flowers accept the sunshine in an entirely natural and happy way. But there are some who find it very hard just to be certain that other people love them, and one or two of the disciples were like that. Our Lord had to deal with very various temperaments in that extraordinary little company. Some were responsive and receptive; ot...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For August 28        Christ with Us               Arise, let us go hence--Joh 14:31               The Need of Christ After the Last Supper              When the Last Supper was concluded and Jesus had finished His teaching of His own, He said to them, "Arise, let us go hence." It is on these words I wish to dwell a moment as we too consider the communion table. One would have thought that on such a night as that, the deepest craving of Jesus would have been to be alone. We have all had hours when we craved to be alone, when we could not stand the intrusion of society. And if this be so with us in our lesser sorrows and anxieties, a thousandfold more so must it have been with Jesus when the sorrow of the world was o...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For August 25        The Ladder of Promise               I will love him, and will manifest myself to him .... we will come unto him, and make our abode with him--Joh 14:21-23               The Ascending Scale of Promise              Out of all the riches of these verses, let us take what the Lord says about Himself. Let us select the words He uses of Himself. We may not disentangle in experience the acting of the Father and the Son, but often we may disengage in thought what we cannot disentangle in experience. So here we may reverently lay aside, in thought, what the Lord says about the Father and think only of what He says about Himself. When we do that, how beautiful it grows! We see a gradually ascending scale...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For August 24        The Way, the Truth, the Life               Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life--Joh 14:6               Love Prepares a Welcome              No one was more ready than Jesus to detect the anxieties of those He loved. We picture Him, as He taught the twelve, watching intently the expression on their faces to learn how far His words were understood. Jesus had noted, then, tokens of heart distress (Joh 14:1). The disciples felt His departure like a torture. And it was then that He consoled them with such simple and glorious speech that all Christendom is the debtor to their agony. They thought that His death was an unforeseen calamity. Christ taught them it was the path of H...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For August 23        The Great Affirmation               In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you--Joh 14:2               Christ Knew about Death; Socrates Only Speculated              It is not by any amplified detail that these words so appeal to human hearts. It is rather by the quiet, assured confidence with which the Savior speaks of the beyond. In the whole of literature there is but one scene worthy to be compared with this. It is where Plato tells of the last hours of Socrates in prison before he drank the poison. I know few things more admirably fitted to reveal the preeminence of Christ than a comparison of these two incidents. Like Christ, Socrates is going to die....

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For August 22        Tribulation and the Untroubled Heart               Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions--Joh 14:1-2               He Speaks Peace in the Midst of Tribulation              There are few more profitable studies than that of comparing spiritual things with spiritual. In the light of this, I should like to compare our text with that of Joh 16:33 --"In the world ye shall have tribulation." In certain selected seasons of our life it is easy to keep the heart untroubled. There are days in life, as in the world of nature, when everything is radiant and serene. But when our Lord says, "Let not your heart be troubled," He is not thi...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For August 21        The Loneliness of Sin               He then having received the sop went immediately out: and it was night--Joh 13:30               He Made His Bed in Hell              What first strikes us here is the utter loneliness of Judas. No word-painting, however vivid, could give a deeper impression of that than these few words of John: "He ... went immediately out: and it was night." Within, there was light and gladness, and the richest fellowship this world had ever known. For Christ was there, and John was leaning upon Jesus' bosom, and the talk was on high and holy themes that evening. Outside was fierce hostility. Outside was dark. And no man drove out Judas. No push and curse hurried him to the ...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For August 19        Seeing Jesus Is Seeing God               He that seeth me seeth him that sent me--Joh 12:45               Utterances of Transcendent Importance              That these words are of profound importance we may gather from two considerations. The one is that our Savior cried them (Joh 12:44). As a rule our Savior did not cry. He did not cry nor lift up His voice in the streets. But now and then, in some exalted hour, the Gospels tell us that He cried (Joh 7:37). And in every instance when He cried, we have words that take us to the very heart of things. Also, remember that in these verses we have our Lord's last public sermon. From the beginning of chapter thirteen onwards our Lord is in seclusion...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For August 16        Undeveloped Lives               Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone--Joh 12:24               Waste in Nature              In the summer, when the world is at its fairest, one thing that impresses us very strongly is what I might call the prodigality of nature. Every flower is busy fashioning its seeds; there are trees with thousands of seed pods on them; and we know that of all these millions of seeds being formed, not one in ten thousand will ever come to anything. Now, I am not going to speak of the problems suggested by that wastefulness. I wish rather to say a word or two upon the subject of undeveloped lives. In every corn of wheat that finds no congenial ...