The Loftiness of God by Charles Kingsley — Read

For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy, I dwell in the high and holy place; with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones. - ISAIAH lvii. 15

THIS is a grand text; one of the grandest in the whole Old Testament; one of those the nearest to the spirit of the New. It is full of Gospel-of good news: but it is not the whole Gospel. It does not tell us the whole character of God. We can only get that in the New. We can get it there; we can get it in that most awful and glorious chapter which we read for the second lesson-the twenty-seventh chapter of St. Matthew. Seen in the light of that-seen in the light of Christ's cross and what it tells us, all is clear, and all is bright, and all is full of good news-at least to those who are humble and contrite, crushed down by sorrow, and by the feeling of their own infirmities.