Evening, October 2
Go To Morning Reading
“A man greatly beloved.”
Daniel 10:11
Child of God, do you hesitate to appropriate this title? Ah! has your
unbelief made you forget that you are greatly beloved too? Must you
not have been greatly beloved, to have been bought with the precious
blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot? When
God smote his only begotten Son for you, what was this but being greatly
beloved? You lived in sin, and rioted in it, must you not have been
greatly beloved for God to have borne so patiently with you? You were
called by grace and led to a Saviour, and made a child of God and
an heir of heaven. All this proves, does it not, a very great and
superabounding love? Since that time, whether your path has been rough
with troubles, or smooth with mercies, it has been full of proofs
that you are a man greatly beloved. If the Lord has chastened you,
yet not in anger; if he has made you poor, yet in grace you have been
rich. The more unworthy you feel yourself to be, the more evidence
have you that nothing but unspeakable love could have led the Lord
Jesus to save such a soul as yours. The more demerit you feel, the
clearer is the display of the abounding love of God in having chosen
you, and called you, and made you an heir of bliss. Now, if there
be such love between God and us let us live in the influence and sweetness
of it, and use the privilege of our position. Do not let us approach
our Lord as though we were strangers, or as though he were unwilling
to hear us—for we are greatly beloved by our loving Father. “He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how
shall he not with him also freely give us all things?” Come boldly, O believer, for despite the whisperings of Satan and
the doubtings of thine own heart, thou art greatly beloved. Meditate
on the exceeding greatness and faithfulness of divine love this evening,
and so go to thy bed in peace.