The love of Christ

How truth that is- what they say- that to meditate on the love of Christ is enough to get us in such raptures and suddenly make life (seem) all the easier! 

I don't believe live to be any easy, not at all, but it seems to me when we suddenly have this clear vision of  how loving Christ truly is, nothing else matters. There is  nothing impossible, unattainable or hard! When it is the Master who asks, when He tell us 'go' and ' I will be with you', how could we be reluctant? How can we resist such love?  

How dear we are to Christ!

"Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Does he not leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it? And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders and goes home!" Luke 15:4-6
He does not drive the poor weary sheep home. This is not the way of the gentle shepherd. He stoops down and lifts it up, and lays it on his own shoulder and carries it back. There is a wonderful lesson in this little touch in the picture--let us be sure that we understand just what the words say.
We all know that Christ carried our sin when He went to the cross. We know, too, that we may cast our burdens upon Him. But here we learn that Christ wants to carry, not our sins only, not our burdens and cares only--but we ourselves! The shepherd took up thesheep itself and laid it upon his shoulders!
Jesus does this "joyfully". Can this be true? Has Jesus really interest enough in any human being on this earth--to be concerned by his wandering, and joyful by his recovery? The thought overwhelms me! 
We can understand a shepherd's rejoicing when he bears home a sheep that has been lost. We can understand a mother's joy when her lost child is brought to her door. But that the heart of Jesus rejoiced when He finds us, and joyfully puts us on His shoulders--seems too amazing to be true! Yet here the word stands!
Then listen to Zephaniah: "The Lord your God is with you, He is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing!" (Zephaniah 3:17)

(J.R. Miller, "Daily Bible Readings in the Life of Christ" 1890)