To love, and be loved – is real happiness. Our highest honor, and our sweetest happiness below – is to be beloved of God. For if God loves us – He will withhold no truly good thing from us.
What will God do for His people? He will love them freely! He will take you into fellowship – the nearest, dearest, sweetest fellowship with Himself.
Why does He love me? Just because He will. The cause, the reason – is to be found in His loving heart, and sovereign will alone. Not because I am good, or amiable, or can repay His love – for He loves freely, and fixes His love on the most unlikely and unworthy objects!
Everything outside of God will change – but His love is immutable! Lord, help me to believe the love which You have for me – and to love You in return!
O shed abroad Your sweet love in my heart, and fill my heart with glowing love to You!
Have you loved Him today with all your heart, soul, mind and strength?
James Smith* (circa 1860)
Pastor/Author/Preacher
*James Smith was a predecessor of Charles Spurgeon at the New Park Street Chapel in London from 1841 until 1850. Early on Smith’s readings were even more popular than Spurgeon’s. His articulation and succinct scriptural expositions are a delight to read and ponder.
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