ASPIRATION.
“ I have found the Heart of my King, my brother,” my kind friend Jesus. “ What more can I desire in heaven or on earth ? ”
IV.
" My son , give me thy heart” Perfect resignation and entire conformity to the divine will, is the most grateful and most acceptable sacrifice that a man can possibly offer to God out of his own stock and treasure. God sets so high a value and esteem upon this holocaust of our heart, that it is this very one thing precisely he demands of us: “ My son , give me thy heart.” God does not need the gifts, no matter how precious, which we offer: what he most regards is the heart. Our heart cannot be divided and he satisfied. The heart of man is a narrow bed; it cannot contain any besides God alone. Had we a thousand hearts, we ought to offer them all to God, and look upon it as but little in regard of what we stand indebted to him. The love of God consists not in words, but in actions. Jesus Christ, speaking himself of the love he bore his Heavenly Father, says: “ That the world may know that I love my Father, and that as the Father hath given me commandment, so do I. Arise, let us go hence.” ( John xiv. 31.) Where was it he went ? To suffer death on a cross. Behold the Sacred Heart of Jesus! Adore and imitate.
ASPIRATION.
Heart of Jesus, you sought me when I fled from you; will you fly from me now that I seek you?
