[i][b]If...[/b][/i]
I cast up a confessed, repented and forsaken sin against another, and allow my remembrance of that sin to colour my thinking and feed my suspicions,
[i][b]...then I know nothing of Calvary love[/i][/b]

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Ron Bailey

[i][b]if...[/b][/i]
I do not look with eyes of hope on all in whom there is even a faint beginning, as our Lord did, when, just after His disciples had wrangled about which of them should be accounted the greatest, He softened His rebuke with those heart-melting words, [i]"Ye are they which have continued with Me in My temptations,"[/i]
[i][b]...then I know nothing of Calvary love.[/b][/i]

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Ron Bailey

[i][b]if...[/i][/b]
my attitude be one of fear, not faith, about one who has disappointed me, [i][b]if[/i][/b] I say, "Just what I expected," if a fall occurs,
[i][b]...then I know nothing of Calvary love[/i][/b]

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Ron Bailey

[i][b]if...[/b][/i]
I cannot catch 'the sound of noise of rain* long before the rain falls, and, going to some hilltop of the spirit, as near to my God as I can, have not faith to wait there with my face bewteen my knees, though six times or sixty times I am told 'there is nothing,' till at last 'there arises a little cloud out of the sea,'
[i][b]...then I know nothing of Calvary love.[/b][/i]

* 1 Kings 18:41 margin.

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Ron Bailey

[i][b]If...[/b][/i]
I am perturbed by the reproach and misunderstanding that may follow action taken for the good of souls for whom I must give account;
[i][b]If...[/b][/i]
I cannot commit the matter and go on in peace and in silence, remembering Gethsemene and the Cross
[i][b]...then I know nothing of Calvary love[/b][/i]

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Ron Bailey

[i][b]If...[/b][/i]
in dealing with one who does not respond, I weary of the strain, and slip from under the burden,
[i][b]...then I know nothing of Calvary love.[/i][/b]

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Ron Bailey

[i][b]If...[/i][/b]
I deal with wrong for any other reason than that implied in the words, [i]From his right hand went forth a fiery law for them. Yes, He loved the people;[/i]
[i][b]if[/i][/b] I can rebuke without a pang, then [i][b]
...I know nothing of Calvary love[/i][/b]

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Ron Bailey

[i][b]If...[/i][/b]
I cannot bear to be like the father who did not soften the rigours of the far country; [i][b]if[/i][/b] in this sense, I refuse to allow the law of God (the way of transgressors is hard) to take effect, because of the distress it causes me to see that law in operation,
[i][b]...then I know nothing of Calvary love[/b][/i]

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Ron Bailey

[i][b]If[/i][/b] I know little of His pitifulness [i](The Lord turned and looked upon Peter)[/i], [i][b]if[/i][/b] I know little of His courage and hopefulpness for the truly humble and penitent [i](He saith unto him, Feed my lambs)[/i], [i][b]then I know nothing of Calvary love.[/i][/b]

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Ron Bailey